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Alibaba gets social, doles out $586 million for a stake in Sina Weibo
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Crazy HTML5 game makes fun of North Korea’s nuclear aspirations
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…
Chinese scammers exploit Apple to turn fake iPhones into real ones
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….
40m of WeChat’s 300m users live outside China
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…
Confused by Chinese social media? Check out this handy infographic
The good folks from CIC recently released their refreshed China social media landscape infographic for 2013. Generally speaking, more players have emerged in the…
China needs to stop worrying about Apple, Google’s the real threat
When Google left China’s search market back in 2010, it seemed like an end to the company’s attempts to seriously engage with the China…
Anonymous says it hacked North Korea’s intranet (but it probably didn’t)
The worldwide hacker collective Anonymous has announced that it has hacked North Korean web servers and, among other things, the China-based North Korean propaganda…
eBay may have led $50m investment in India’s SnapDeal
Pocketing US$50-million is no joke, so hopefully this one is not inspired by April Fool’s Day. According to Indian tech blog NextBigWhat, eBay has…
Android has more than twice as many Chinese users as Apple [Infographic]
We’ve heard a lot about sales and projections for smartphones in China – such as 199% smartphone growth in the past year – but…
Google Art Project brings ancient China online
Google Art Project took off in 2011 with the aim to make the world’s great cultural artifacts viewable online. But mainland China has always…
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