China’s high-speed increase of e-commerce industry in the past decade seems to drawing to a close in recent years. According to report released by China e-Business Research Center, Chinese e-commerce volume sales increased by 43.9% YOY from 754.2 billion yuan (around US$123 billion) in H1 2013 to 1.08 trillion yuan in H1 2014. The whole-year sale […]
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JD+, Smart Hardware Accelerator by Chinese Online Retail Giant JD.com
Chinese online retail giant JD.com has become one of the first distributors smart hardware makers would turn to whenever they are about to ship products. When maker revolution was about to explode JD established a sub-channel for selling smart hardware products only. Earlier this year, the company launched JD+, an accelerator for smart hardware products, offering funding, […]
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China, Obesity and the Wearable Tech Market: Part 1
[Editor: this article is by guest editor Blair Sugarman. Highly passionate about Chinese technology, Blair’s forages into China tech all started with a single Weibo account in 2010. Now Blair is an avid tech blogger writing on all areas of China digital.] “I shouldn’t really be eating this.” I chirped to my friend sitting opposite me […]
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Tencent Joins Android Launcher Trend
We see Android launcher will be one of the hottest topics in China in 2014. Ambitious Chinese companies or entrepreneurs always want control of users’ access to Internet services and then monetize user traffic or sell services to users. On the Chinese Web, Qihoo is such a company that successfully converted its free security users […]
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Chinese Smartphone Startup OnePlus Aims at Developed Markets
OnePlus is a newly established Chinese smartphone brand officially announced today in Beijing. It’s not just another phone brand by low-cost manufacturing China or aimed at less developed markets. OnePlus will be about high specs, comparatively low prices, selling directly online and shipping to the rest of the world, especially developed markets. It sounds like Google Nexus model […]
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Keyboard App TouchPal, Now with 200M Registered Users, Embraces The Proven Chinese Monetization Solution, Stopping Charging Licensing Fees Overseas
TouchPal Keyboard, a mobile text input solution by Chinese developer CooTek, announced 200 registered users today. It’s been only two months since it announced 170 million registered users. The rapid growth of installs must be largely driven by the fact that the company has been working with Android phone makers including Sumsang, Sony and the […]
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Weibo Payment to Open up to Every User. Alibaba’s Countermeasure to WeChat Mobile Store?
Weibo launched Weibo Payment less than half a year ago. Today Weibo Payment announced to open up to “every user”, either business or individual, at the end of this month. Users, however, need to apply and no details on approval rules have been disclosed today. It will make Weibo, according to the company, a “social commerce […]
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58% of Active Smart Mobile Devices in China were in Third or Lower-tier Cities as of Q1 2014: Umeng Report
As of Q1 2014, 58% of the total active smart mobile devices, including smartphones and pads, were in third or lower-tier cities in China, according to the latest report released by Umeng, the mobile analytics and service provider of Alibaba Group. Out of the 780 million active devices on Umeng covers, the active devices in third […]
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Mobile Search Wandoujia Has Two Major Chinese Mobile Search Services Adopted Its API
Chinese mobile app & in-app search service Wandoujia has had 31 partners adopted its API. Those partners not only include retailer Suning, and smart device makers such as Xiaomi, Meizu and ASUS, but also a couple of mobile search services, Sogou and the newly established Shenma. Users of those smart devices or mobile search services […]
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Alibaba Acquires 60% Stake in ChinaVision Media for $804 million
ChinaVision Media Group Limited (HK: 01060) announced yesterday that Alibaba Investment Ltd, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, would buy 59.32% interest in it for HKD 6.244 billion (USD804 million). Products and services by ChinaVision Media range from newspapers, movies, mobile content and services, TV program promotion, artist management, among others. The company directly invests in […]
