Wang Feng, CEO of game developer LineKong, reportedly partnered up with Julian Qian, former Android engineer at Google, to build a wearable device company Tomoon Technology (source in Chinese). Tomoon Technology developed the first smartwatch T-Watch more than one year ago. The company has finalized the projects on industrial design and core apps, such as phone call, texting, […]
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Chinese Game Developer Feiyu Technology Files for Hong Kong IPO
Feiyu Technology, a Chinese mobile and web game developer, has filed for an IPO on Hong Kong market. Xiamen Haloer and CAIROT, two of China’s leading game developers, merged together into Feiyu Technology July this year for scale operation. Legendary Chinese angel investor Cai Wensheng is the backer for both of the companies. Founded in 2009, Xiamen Haloer […]
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Mobile Game Portal Joyme Gets $21.5 Million Series B Funding
Joyme.com, a Beijing-based mobile game portal operator, reportedly received 130 million yuan ($21.5 million) of Series B funding from Fosun Group’s venture capital arm Fosun Venture Capital Investment and followed by existing investor BlueRun Ventures (via Tech Sina). The company has received several million U.S. dollars in series A investment from BlueRun Ventures in 2011. The capital […]
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[Update] Joint Venture of ZTE and The9 Unveils Fun Box Priced at 499 Yuan
ZTE The9, a joint venture co-founded by telecom equipment and smartphone maker ZTE and online game company The9, planned to release this month Fun Box, a TV and game smart box which embeds several online games developed by The9, according to a microblog posted by Zhu Jun, CEO of the game developer. [Update]: The joint venture […]
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Tech in China 2013: Acquisition Spree in Mobile Game Industry
The user base of Chinese gaming industry soared 20.6% year-on-year to 490 million this year, while the total revenue hiked 38% from a year earlier to 8.32 billion yuan ($1.37 billion), according to report released by China Game Industry Annual Conference (via Tech Sina). With the rise of smartphone and other mobile devices, mobile gaming […]
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Tomoon Co-founder Wang Feng Leaked T-Watch Pictures
Wang Feng, co-founder of wearable device company Tomoon Technology and CEO of game developer LineKong Technology, posted several pictures of T-Watch, a smartwatch developed by Tomoon, after Sumsang took the wraps off flagship smartwatch Galaxy Gear. Wang claimed that T-Watch is the thinnest smartwatch so far. T-Watch, which will be open for re-order recently, will […]
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Android App Manager Wandoujia Rolled Out In-game Payment SDK 2.0
Wandoujia or SnapPea, an app distributor and content manager, launched in-game payment SDK 2.0 this week (report in Chinese). Learned from the practice availed in Google Play and App Store, the latest version embeds the payment solution to Android-powered terminals, saving developers’ efforts to upgrade corresponding apps. There is no need for developers to repacking […]
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Tech in China 2013: Competition in Domestic Smartwatch Battlefield is Heating Up
Apart from manufacturers and tech-savvy consumers, smartwatch has attracted wide attentions from both media and fashion industry this year. It is also a leading sector for wearable industry, which is expected to create the next digital craze after smartphones and tablets. Both foreign and domestic manufacturers swarmed into smartwatch industry. Samsung released Galaxy Gear, a gadget […]
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Web Game, A Blue Sea for Game Companies?
A new report on China’s game industry in first quarter by IDC showed that, as client games were shrinking in both revenue and market, web games are enjoying a rise in users (205 million) by 27.7% and in revenues (RMB 3.82 billion) by 46.7% year on year. A statistics by Beijing-based Internet think tank Analysys […]
