China

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is one of those long-forgotten gems that occasionally make their way back to your computer screen after some accidental digging up on the web.Some of you might remember China’s race to create its first humanoid robot back in the eighties -- a time that, according to PC Mag, “witnessed ...

The recent 7.0 magnitude earthquake that left more than 200 people dead or missing, 11 800 injured and around 100 000 homeless in Sichuan, China has received a lot of attention from the tech industry’s leading competitors. Baidu, Google and other leading software leaders in China have set up emergency ...

There have been tons of mobile instant messaging services over the years, but few have had the kind impact WhatsApp's managed to gain since it was founded in 2009.In fact, the service may now have more users than Twitter. At least, that's according to WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum who ...

Cards are seriously important to Twitter. They’re what lets you see a video or summary of an article from a tweet and what Instagram removed support for last year. According to Twitter, the feature is used by more than 10 000 developers, mobile apps and websites. It makes sense ...

Apple has been taking quite a bit of stick over the last month for its after-sales service practices in China, and perhaps rightfully so. But instead of being exploited by Apple, police have discovered that some Chinese criminals used Apple’s return system to turn more than 100 fake iPhones into ...

Yesterday at Boao Forum For Asia 2013, Tencent’s President Martin Lau revealed on stage that WeChat has over 40-million overseas users. That’s out of a total user-base of just over 300-million.Echoing the thoughts of Tencent founder and CEO Pony Ma, Lau believes that mobile internet growth has given a chance ...

The good folks from CIC recently released their refreshed China social media landscape infographic for 2013. Generally speaking, more players have emerged in the country’s social media space. But most notably CIC has added ‘Mobile Social’ into the mix, featuring mobile-only social networks like WeChat, Guanxi, and Momo.Among all these ...