The booming development of Chinese tourism industry, especially the outbound and backpack travelling sector, leads to the emergence of a raft of new tourism services recently. Qyer, a tourism service Alibaba just invested in, is principally engaged in providing recommendations and information to outbound tourists. The company’s core products cover travel guide, forum, inquiry and […]
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Klarity Tells How Your Brand and Your Competitors Perform in Global Social Space
Klarity Analytics collects and analyses data about brands on social media. Brands who want to know about their social performance and all the metrics about competitors must need it. It’s now tracking over 5000 global brands from over 100 social platforms. The social media include those well-known ones world wide and Chinese ones such as Sina Weibo […]
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Hardware Accelerator HAXLR8R Graduates Ten New Startups, Opening Applications for the Next
HAXLR8R, an accelerator program for hardware-based startups around the world, graduated 10 new hardware companies from its recent program based in Shenzhen, China. The 10 startups are from North America, Europe and Asia, with two from China. During the 15-week program, they built products spanning markets such as robotics, connected devices, Internet of Things (IOT), entertainment and bio-hacking. […]
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Mobile Payments Service iBoxPay Secured $10 Million Series B Financing
iBoxPay, a Square-like mobile payment solution and platform provider, announced $10 million of Series B financing from SMIT, GSR Ventures and Atomic (announcement in Chinese). The company received 14 million yuan financing (about $2.3 mn) from GSR Ventures in 2011. iBoxPay features RFID reader, barcode scanner, the Square-function, USBKey for secure, e-signature etc, as described on […]
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Baidu’s Mobile Revenues Make up over 10% of the Total in Q213
For the first time, over 10% of Baidu’s quarterly revenues was from the mobile, “roughly quadrupled over a year ago”, Robin Li, Baidu CEO, disclosed at the Q213 earnings conference call today. Mobile search traffic is mainly driven by Baidu search app and Baidu mobile browser. The mobile bidding system was integrated into Phoenix Nest, […]
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TechNode Looking for Writers Passionate about China’s Tech Startup Scene
TechNode is bilingual tech media. Our ultimate goal is not just to be an influential media in Chinese tech space but to be a leading tech media with focus on China in the global tech space. In other words, we are reporting China tech news, educating the global industry about China startup ecosystem and also […]
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Chinese 3G Subscribers Reached 300 million, 86 million Added in First Half 2013
The three Chinese telcos released statistics for the first half of 2013 this week. The combined number of 3G subscribers increased by 86.06 million, totaling 325.2 million that accounts for 27% of the total mobile phone users in mainland China. China Mobile saw larger increase that 3 G subscribers added 49.93 million, thanks to, as […]
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Intel, Baidu Launched An App Testing Center for Developers
Intel and Baidu launched a Mobile Testing Center today, providing free mobile app testing and porting service to mobile developers (in Chinese). Developers can use the equipment in the testing center, including back end servers. The center will facilitate the testing of new apps to shorten the development period. For Intel, this center will help […]
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Crowdsourcing Recruiting App Renren Headhunting Secured Series A Financing, Launched 3.0 Version
Renren Headhunting, a crowdsourcing recruiting mobile app, announced that it has secured millions of dollars from KPCB in Series A Financing. The company has received 20 million yuan (about $3.2 mn) of angel investment from Zhonglu Capital in April this year. The company recently rolled out Renren Headhunting 3.0, a version that aims to establish […]
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Angry Birds Soda Arrives In China
Rovio, developer of Angry Bird, plans to introduce Angry Birds soft drink to the Mainland China market in addition to its full product lineup ranging from t-shirts to posters. The pilot will start in mid-August in selected stores in Walmart and Carrefour, Li Xin, country director of Angry Birds China told TechNode. Angry Birds claims […]