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China’s internet population keeps on growing, now numbers 564 million
China’s web registry regulator, the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC), has today released a new tranche of data showing the size of the…
Major Chinese angel investor calls for more online freedom
Like most of China’s big tech investment gurus, Xu Xiaoping is on Sina Weibo. And although fellow tech investor Kaifu Lee just spent some…
Why Chinese companies censor users overseas even though they don’t have to
A few days ago, I wrote about a rant posted to Sina Weibo and spotted by Global Voices Online in which an alleged member…
Chinese social media giant Sina Weibo starts rolling out English option
Sina Weibo has over 400-million registered users, although it’s hard to know how many of those are overseas. Nonetheless, today the Twitter-esque Weibo has…
Gangnam Style is now an 8-bit iOS game… really
Well, I guess it was only a matter of time before this happened. Korean pop star PSY has become a phenomenon over the past…
Why 2013 isn’t going to be a good year for tech in China
It’s no secret that I’m pretty pessimistic about 2013. Just a week ago, I said it would be the worst year ever for China tech….
4 key rules for monetising your mobile app in emerging markets
The world is getting appified. Apps are driving the mobile internet ecosystem forward and have emerged as one of the biggest forms of media,…
Samsung set to take Nokia’s place as the top smartphone manufacturer
According to forecasted numbers from analysts at iSuppli, by the end of the year, Korean manufacturer Samsung will officially take the lead in the…
Chat app giant WeChat set to surpass 300 million users next month
Already the world’s biggest messaging app, WeChat seems to be accelerating its growth even further in the past few months. That’s because Tencent founder and CEO…
Will China’s government soon start inspecting and regulating mobile apps?
China’s mobile app market has developed with remarkable speed over the past few years. That seemed only natural given the speed with which the…
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