Even when Tencent’s WeChat crossed an astounding 300 million user mark, Xiaomi still couldn’t let go of its almost similar offering Miliao which claimed about 23 million users. The popular Chinese smartphone vendor recently announced a partnership with mobile SNS service mface in which the latter would be taking care of marketing Miliao into Southeast […]
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Chinese BBS Tianya.com Partners with Booking.com, Desperate for Money?
With the rise of new social services like weibo and SNS, traditional BBS service is destined to be out of favor. Long-established Chinese BBS TianYa Community has been struggling for a long while to try to weather the difficulties. The company’s latest move in doing so is to sign up with Booking.com, one of the […]
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E-commerce Heads Talk About SHE-commerce
Women who loves to shop and socialize online are the new darlings of the e-commerce industry. Many reports have stated the growing trend of women making purchases online and the big potential it implies. Businesses big and small have come to recognize their importance. Chen Nian, founder of the apparel e-tailer VANCL, and Liu Qiangdong, […]
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Dianping Opens up Data to Third Parties
Dianping announced to open its data to third-party partners yesterday. AutoNavi, Evernote China, General Motors, Shanda and Garmin are the first companies that can access Dianping’s data with the APIs just released. It is found that, however, third parties who run competing businesses, reviews, group buying, digital coupons or ordering, are not welcomed to use its data. Developers, […]
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W3C Ramps up China Presence with Beijing Office Through Beihang Partnership
World Wide Web Consortium, the organization behind efforts like web standards and guidelines to ensure a long-term growth for the Web just announced to set up Beihang University as a new center for W3C technical staff in China in an aim to ramp up collaboration among Chinese companies, developers, research institutes and W3C’s communities from […]
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M-commerce in Rural China: Three Cases
As e-commerce competitions in cities are fierce, people want to explore the business opportunities in third- and fourth- tier cities in China, or even the rural areas, where users, most being farmer-turned workers, have considerable purchasing power. They use mobile phones, instead of PCs, to get connected. Here are three well-known cases. The three founders […]
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Macworld’s China Innovation Forum Speakers Announced
As you might’ve heard of, TechNode is organizing an innovation forum across the pacific during Macworld conference to be held in January 31 in San Francisco, the forum will be featuring a series of prominent China Internet veterans to give speeches and join panel discussion via which China-wise thoughts could be sparkled and local market […]
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What? We Need to Make Money?
The New York Times recently detailed the challenges facing entrepreneurs in 2013. The article points out that almost everyone is sombering up from all the hype. Even the much vaunted mobile wave cannot lift people’s spirit. “There was so much hype around the transition to mobile, but people are realizing that mobile is challenging,” Some […]
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Tencent Consolidates Group Buying Efforts Under Gaopeng
Tencent made a series of adjustments to its ecommerce arms over the past years, and now it’s the company’s disordered group buying efforts’ turn to receive some treatment. After moves like acquiring FTuan.com, setting up a JV with Groupon (Gaopeng.com) for China and launching its own effort tuan.qq.com, Tencent currently owns three almost similar group […]
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BarCamp is back on January 27th – Register to Attend
Do you have a great project/idea/demo to share with the world? Sign up now to be a presenter or a participant at BarCamp Beijing!It will all happen starting at 9:30am on Sunday January 27th at Microsoft Research Asia (Building 1, No. 5 DanLing Street) in Haidian District! See map of the location below. In case you need to refresh […]