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Why a home-grown gaming console could be great for China’s tech space
I recently found myself on the Amazon China page for the CT-510, Lenovo-backed Eedoo’s $600 home entertainment system, reading the reviews. They are not…
China’s internet: Tencent rules the roost
IDG Capital Partners released an interesting white paper on the Chinese internet back in October. As a whole, it’s a little fragmented in its…
China’s Taobao and Tmall hit $158bn in sales for 2012 so far
China’s largest ecommerce company Alibaba has just announced that two of its sites, Taobao and Tmall, have collectively hit RMB 1-trillion (US$159.5-billion) in sales…
Android cements Chinese dominance: has 140m users
China has, at present, 390-million mobile internet users among its billion-strong phone subscribers. And now new data for 2012 Q3 from Beijing-based mobile analytics…
Now that it’s got more than a billion to burn, what could Baidu buy?
Chinese search giant Baidu recently got a whole lot richer when it raised US$1.5-billion in its first ever bonds issue. And it’s going to…
8 facts to consider in your Sina Weibo social strategy
Chinese online giant Sina has released an interesting report filled with facts and stats about users of its Sina Weibo service, which has over 400…
eBay has another go in China, this time with luxury clothes
US online auction giant eBay has made a return, in a very low-key but stylish way, to the China market. It recently launched a…
Alibaba’s Tmall, Taobao see US$3bn in sales in 24 hours
Tech in Asia recently suggested that China’s biggest e-commerce sales/discounts day could beat America’s Cyber Monday in value — and that’s precisely what happened…
Google brings data free mobile search Gmail, Google+ to the Philippines
While the smartphone revolution is well established in most mature mobile markets, there’s still a long way to go in some countries, particularly in…
Baidu CEO tells staff to disrupt, innovate… and be like wolves
Be more wolf-like. That’s one of the rallying cries of Robin Li, CEO and founder of China’s top search engine, Baidu, in an internal email…
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