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China is not impressed with Android’s smartphone domination

It’s no secret that Android is winning the smartphone wars by a landslide — and the home of the world’s biggest smartphone market is…

China’s porn crackdown: 225 sites, 4k channels and 30k blogs shut down

Finding online porn in China just got a little more difficult after authorities shut down 225 websites, 4 000 channels and columns and 30…

Tencent to open US office to push WeChat

Tencent, maker of the popular WeChat messaging app, is to open an office in America this year as the Chinese company focuses on taking…

Sina says WeChat will dig into Weibo usage, but reckons it has critical mass

Sina has admitted that competition from Tencent’s increasingly popular WeChat app is cutting into the time people spend on its Sina Weibo microblogging platform….

Ex Google China chief Kaifu Lee invites 30m weibo fans to join him on Twitter

Never one to shy away from controversy, former Google China head Kaifu Lee has called upon his 30-million Sina Weibo followers to join him…

90% of China’s daily deals go through just 10 sites [report]

This is interesting. The wave of Groupon clones that hit China a few years back have consolidated to the degree that 90% of the…

One for the books: Chinese copycat clones another Chinese app

Usually we hear about stories of Chinese copycats aping foreign tech products, and examples of that aren’t hard to find. But thanks to Twitter…

Revamped Sina Weibo set to come with Google+ style sharing

Chinese mega social network Sina Weibo is set for a major revamp that will see it incorporate Google+ style sharing. Chinese blog Techweb claims…

Tencent coughs up $27m for 49% stake in Singapore game company

It’s no secret that Chinese social media superpower Tencent sees gaming as a big part of its future. So it shouldn’t be all that…

Sina Weibo set to launch social credit card

Here’s an interesting development from beyond the Great Firewall. Chinese social network Sina Weibo is teaming up with China Merchants Bank on a social…

Tencent looks to grow in other emerging markets as China gets saturated

It’s not exactly a state secret that Tencent has dominated the Chinese social media scene over the past few years. Now though, that market…

While everyone was talking Twitter, Sina Weibo took gold in the social Olympics

Well now, this is interesting. It turns out the real social media platform of choice when it came to the Olympic Games was China’s…

China’s Sohu: losing the microblog battle, but planning a comeback

If you know anything about the Chinese social media space it’s probably that Tencent and Sina rule the microblogging space. If things had turned…

How Mark Zuckerberg inspired a new generation of Chinese hackers

Most people know Mark Zuckerberg as founder of Facebook. A lot fewer people know that one of his first projects prior to Facebook was…

Baidu sacks employees who deleted forum posts for cash: 3 arrested

Three now former employees of Chinese search giant Baidu have been arrested for accepting bribes to delete posts from the company’s TieBa forum service….

Olympic social media controversy hits China

When you embrace social media as much as the London Games have, you’ve got to accept that there’ll be the odd disaster here and…

Awesome TED video explains life behind the Great Firewall

This is very cool. China’s internet space can be a little difficult to figure out at times. A Great Firewall, Weibos, and social clones…

Baidu, Sina team up to share mobile and search content

Two of China’s most influential online powers, Baidu and Sina, are teaming up in a partnership that will see them swapping cloud-based and mobile…

Sina Weibo went crazy for Olympic opening ceremony: 119m messages sent

Turns out users of Chinese microblogging service Sina Weibo took to the first ever “social Olympics” with a gusto. During the opening ceremony alone,…

Shanghai to introduce free city-wide Wi-Fi

The eternal hunt for free Wi-Fi is about to get a lot easier for residents of Chinese mega-city Shanghai. According to the Oriental Daily,…

Sina Weibo copies Twitter, takes ‘sponsored tweets’ route

This is interesting. Chinese social network Sina Weibo, which has over 350-million registered users, is taking a leaf out of Twitter’s book when it…

Baidu expands social effort into Vietnam

Chinese internet giant Baidu confirmed that it has launched its PostBar (‘Baidu Tieba’) social network in Vietnam, where it is called ‘Tra Da Quan’….

80% of Chinese households could have smartphones by 2017

China is well on its way to becoming a global smartphone superpower. It already accounts for 22% of global smartphone shipments and by 2017,…

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