China

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…

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…

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…

Tablets set to explode in emerging markets as global PC sales keep falling

Tablets use is set to rapidly escalate in emerging markets as their hunger for smart connected devices continues to grow. According to tech research…

Chinese media’s anti-Apple onslaught continues

Trouble is brewing in Apple’s second largest market — and it’s not a quiet affair. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Chinese government’s…

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…

Baidu to pump 25% of R&D budget into mobile

Looks like Baidu is taking its promise to dominate the Chinese mobile space pretty damn seriously. The Chinese internet giant announced that it would…

Google shutters China-only music service

Google has shuttered its three-year old music China-only music service, admitting that things haven’t worked out quite as well as it hoped. In a…

Baidu plants a flag for Chinese nationalism

This is interesting. In a show of nationalism, Chinese search giant Baidu today put up a doodle depicting a Chinese flag planted on the…

Does Google’s smackdown on Aliyun mean it’s becoming like the mafia?

So, you’ve heard about the Google smackdown on Acer’s planned partnership with China’s Alibaba to make its latest flagship Aliyun OS phone. Where does…

iPhone 5 to hit China’s grey market for US$1 500

Combining Tao Te Ching levels of “WTF” and “Meh, I’m not really surprised,” China’s finest smugglers are preparing to sell the newly-unveiled iPhone 5…

Chinese undercover reporter builds iPhone 5, describes ‘nightmare’ factory

On the eve of the eagerly anticipated iPhone 5 launch, concerns about the conditions under which it’s made have resurfaced. A Chinese reporter has…

Tencent’s WeChat hits 200m users, doubles in six months

Over at the China Internet Conference earlier today, Pony Ma, CEO and co-founder of Tencent (HKG:0700) took to the stage to talk about all…

China’s Alibaba wants to be bigger than Android

You can’t really accuse China’s tech and online giants of being short on ambition. Not when a company like Alibaba, already likely to pass…

Foxconn compensates for labour shortages with forced ‘internships’

Just when you thought Foxconn’s reputation couldn’t get any shadier. The manufacturing giant is reportedly recruiting students from nearby universities for two month internships…

Baidu launches ‘super-fast’ HTML 5 Android browser

Looks like Chinese internet giant Baidu is making good on its plans to completely dominate the Asian superpower’s mobile space. The company today released…

China set to pass US in smartphone shipments… and India, Brazil are next

The latest report from research firm IDC yesterday showed that in contrast to its March’s report, China will surpass the United States in terms…

Chinese video giants Youku, Tudou complete $1bn merger

This is big. Chinese online video monoliths Youku and Tudou have announced the completion of their billion dollar merger, with the latter set to…

Rocket internet mulling shutdown of China operations

International ecommerce cloning giant Rocket Internet is reportedly on the verge of shutting down its operations in China. According to The Next Web, the…

Did Facebook steal Timeline? This Chinese social network thinks so

The Chinese online space is renowned for its clones of Western social media sites, but at least one company thinks copying goes the other…

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