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Oftentimes, people like to compare Vietnam with China. In some ways, the similarities are pretty obvious. The Chinese dynasties ruled Vietnam for one thousand years. Vietnamese people celebrate Lunar New Year, and our names have Chinese roots. But online and in the tech industry, things look really different.In Asia, there are four communist countries: China, Vietnam, Laos, and North Korea. Laos and North Korea are so small they’re not really on the tech map (even if North Korea is finally ...
It's no secret that Android is winning the smartphone wars by a landslide -- and the home of the world's biggest smartphone market is no exception. But it seems the Chinese government is not enthused by the existence of such a large number of mobile phones controlled by Google within its boundaries, saying it is stunting mobile development in the country.A report released by the state's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and translated by Reuters said that ...
The to-do list app that has become the backbone of entire businesses is expanding its global roll out to offer its business products to more than 35 countries worldwide. The latest on the list? South Africa.Announced at LeWeb Paris last year, Evernote Business targets the enterprise market, capitalising on the fact that two thirds of its 50-million users were already using Evernote on their computers and mobile devices for work purposes. Initially only available in France, Germany, Switzerland, the ...
We’ve all seen the big-screen Samsung Galaxy Note 2 or SIII phones being clutched in one uncomfortably stretched palm, but India’s Android market reveals that the smaller and cheaper Samsung Galaxy devices are actually more popular. Indeed, in new statistics released by game developer Animoca, they observed that every single one of India’s top 10 Android phones carry the Samsung Galaxy brand – and that the top one is a budget phone with a mere three-inch screen.An Animoca representative explains ...
Facebook is under siege from every direction. SnapChat’s picking away at the young sexting market, Twitter dominated TV sets at the Superbowl, and Path is building a tiny fortress for close friends. That’s not all – the one-billion-user giant’s got nuclear warheads from Asia to watch out for too.Asia is now a crucial battleground in the mobile messaging wars. Both in terms of user-base, and because so many innovating social apps are being built in the region. One third of ...
In an attempt to address the on-going problem of underage workers in electronic factories in China, HP has taken a strong new stance against labour abuses. The manufacturer is now mandating that all student work must be voluntary, students must be free to come and go as they please and that no more than 20% of a factory's workforce may be comprised of interns during peak periods.The company told the New York Times that it aims to reduce the level ...
Social networking stalwart Facebook claims one-billion users. That’s around a seventh of the population of the planet. Sometimes it’s easy to believe the internet is comprised solely of Google, Wikipedia and Facebook. But what about more regional social networks, mobile social networks and specifically those with a strong foothold in emerging markets? How do they stack up against the behemoth that is Facebook?According to Italian social media strategist Vincenzo Cosenza although Facebook’s star is still ascending around the world, there ...
Well, Deezer is certainly on a roll. The music streaming service announced recently that it is now available in a massive 128 countries worldwide, after adding in another 22 emerging market countries to its growing coverage map this week. Now people living in the Middle East and parts of Africa, South America and Asia will be able to access Deezer's catalogue of over 20-million songs via its website and various mobile apps.The French music service is now available in Algeria, ...
Internet security and software company Qihoo, one of Baidu's main competitors in the search space, isn't having a good week: its apps have been removed from Apple's App Store and it's received an unfair competition warning for its mobile browser.According to Bloomberg, the makers of China's most popular web browser was issued with a warning from the Beijing Industrial and Commercial Administration Bureau, saying that the use of anti-virus software in its browsers was considered unfair competition.Qihoo's ...
When a country is home to more than a billion cellphone users, you start to expect the record growth to continue to every area of mobile. That's why when you see a stat like '2.1%', it can look a bit odd. But according to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), that's the percentage that SMS use increased in the country in 2012.Yep, the figures themselves are still massive: Chinese users sent 897.3-billion SMSes last year, slightly up ...
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