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With founder Jack Ma stepping down from the role of CEO, skeptics will doubt whether Alibaba can continue to grow strongly without its founder’s leadership. It’s perhaps normal to have such a reaction given that the founders are usually the most important people in a company.Ma has been an inspirational figure for folks inside and outside of the company. Alibaba without him in the CEO’s seat just doesn’t feel complete. But is it going to have a major impact on ...
Samsung co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun has hailed the company’s new Galaxy S4 phone as its fastest ever selling gadget ever. The company's new flagship smartphone is expected to hit 10-million in sales next week, less than a month after it first launched.Speaking to The Korea Times, Shin said that the company is "confident that we will pass more than 10-million sales of the S4 next week. It is selling much faster than the previous model S3."He added that the ...
I’m beginning to think we might as well just consider Huawei and ZTE, given that they seem to pop up together constantly in the news. And, unfortunately for both companies, it’s never something good.When we last checked in with the dynamic duo it was because they were (and still are) under investigation by Indian Intelligence authorities, and now there’s more bad news for the Chinese telecoms in the form of this Reuters report suggesting the European Union may levy ...
After merging into one company last year, Youku Tudou further established itself as China’s top online video business with its two sites. Combining user-generated videos and licensed movies and TV shows, Youku and Tudou collectively spent over US$100-million last year on securing the rights to an array of Chinese and overseas streaming content. It’s a significant investment (with studios like Sony Pictures and Warner Bros) in capturing the attention of China’s web users – and it’s a treasure they need ...
Doubting the growing global popularity of mobile messaging app WeChat? There are some new figures to change your mind. Speaking on the final day of the Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing, Tencent’s deputy general manager Hou Xiaonan has revealed that the company’s social messaging app now has 190-million monthly active users. That’s from a total registered user-base of over 300-million – indeed, it’s anticipated to exceed 400-million later this month.With 190-million monthly active users on WeChat, that means the ...
In a surprise move, Amazon has opened its Android-oriented Appstore in China. That’s despite the fact that China wasn’t listed on Amazon’s Appstore expansion roadmap last month, in which the company took its service into 200 new countries, including over a dozen major Asian markets.The Amazon Appstore launch in China means that the American e-tailer has leapt the final hurdle in its long pursuit of selling its own hardware in China. Though the Amazon Appstore can be used with any ...
We know that Tencent is working on a social gaming platform for WeChat, its popular social messaging app, but what else is in the pipeline? According to industry analyst Guan Peng, the next major version of WeChat app, which will be v5.0 for iPhone and Android, will come with support for three major new features.Anticipating that WeChat v5.0 will appear later this month, he reckons we’ll see:Paid publishing or subscriptions for accounts on the WeChat public platform – ie: those ...
With India as Opera Mini’s largest user base in the world, Opera Software has some very interesting things to share about the state of Android in India. Note that the data presents the state of Android in India based on Opera Mini users’ data and may not necessarily be true across the nation. The infographic below captures everything nicely. But here are some key points for the busy ones.21.7% of all data used by Opera Mini’s Android users is for ...
China’s top ecommerce company has secured what could be the biggest web deal of the year in the country. Alibaba, which has been a lot more keen to venture into social media recently, has taken an 18% stake in Sina Weibo, the Twitter-like microblogging service run by Sina.Sina Weibo has over 500-million registered users, and has been China’s most talked about social network in the past couple of years. Despite all that enthusiasm, only 46.3-million are daily active users of ...
North Korea’s missile belligerence has been the target of an awful lot of humour, but the folks at Taiwan’s Next Media Animation have taken things a step farther and gone interactive with Best Korea Smackdown, a flash game that tasks players with shooting down North Korean nukes as supreme leader Kim Jong-un attempts to ride them into their targets.The game is extremely simple, and it’s really more of a gimmick than it is a game. Gameplay involves pointing the mouse ...
