Jiepang, the Chinese equivalent to Foursquare, revealed today some interesting progress in the company’s utilization of LBS service as a new marketing channel via its long-time partnership with Starbucks. The Beijing-based startup launched a Valentine’s Day campaign in joint force with Starbucks to award Jiepang users who check into a Starbucks store in eastern China […]
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HealthValley.Asia, an Online Platform for Asia-centric Healthcare TMT News and Analysis Launched
BH Media, a subsidiary of Singapore headquartered Borderless Healthcare Group today announced the launch of HealthValley.Asia, the first and only online platform that offers Asia-centric healthcare TMT (technology, media, and telecommunications) news and analysis. HealthValley.Asia is to document, map and champion companies and products in this space as well as the people behind them. Talked to Dr […]
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AngelList-like Crowdsource funding, is China ready?
AngelList has been quite a phenomenon in Silicon Valley. It constantly transforms and is hailed as a sort of “disruptor” to alter the traditional way of funding early startups. In China, for sure we have copycats of AnglList, and there is this one called “AngelCrunch”. I noticed its birth in 2011; honestly did not pay […]
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Tujia Raised RMB 400M in Two Rounds
Chinese vacation rental service Tujia revealed that the startup has raised a combined RMB 400 million in Series A and Series B round of financing from investors including GGV Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, CDHFund, Qiming Ventures, CBC Capital, Ctrip as well as HomeAway, according to a post published on Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent to […]
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Happy Snake Year to 360Buy, for Its $700m New Round of Funding in Pocket to Burn
According to Sina, the leading online 3C retailer, 360buy has just confirmed its new round of funding of $700 millions! The news has been confirmed by 360buy today which is the first working day for Chinese after the Chinese new year holiday, so likely, 360buy will be having a happy Snake year. The news also […]
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Qihoo Acquires SaaS Online Security Startup RiZhiBao
Qihoo reportedly just acquired RiZhiBao, a Beijing-based online security startup providing SaaS-based services to give webmasters intuitive and comprehensive understanding of their website operations through insights into weblogs. In addition to weblogs analysis, RiZhiBao could scan a website to look into any bugs and vulnerability that might lead to hacker attacks. These features made RiZhiBao […]
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Sogou Levels up Competition via Soso Takeover?
Latest rumor has it that Sogou was in talks with Tencent about a potential buyout of the latter’s search engine effort Soso.com, which echoes Mr. Wang Xiaochuang’s prior hints that the company would have a bold move on capital after Chinese New Year. The claim was previously interpreted as a signal for the long-awaited IPO […]
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Your App Guide to Celebrating Chinese New Years
This Chinese New Year’s Eve, as visions of lion dancers dance in your head, there’s no excuse for you to miss out on the festivities no matter where you find yourself. From food and cultural traditions to language learning and keeping in touch with friends near and far, we’ve got all your bases covered! So […]
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Chinese Startup Scene
A recent researched showed that in China, about 50% of the graduating college students are interested to start their own business as oppose to 65% of the students in America. This is a drastic increase from the generation of their parents who grew up in the Cultural Revolution era. Many of these students have decided […]
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Baidu in 2013, Needs Entry-Level Product to Access Mobile Internet Market
Baidu, failed twice for its major attempts towards mobile internet market, including Baidu Yi and Leho, an online portal and community focusing on lifestyle information and service. On one hand, Baidu cooperated with design houses including Changhong and Dell to launch the strategic product Baidu Yi. However, it turned out that there was little opportunity for deep customized […]