China

This Baidu heatmap shows massive scale of human movement over Chinese New Year

Baidu has launched a heat map of where Chinese travelers are heading to, coming from, and which routes are most popular during Chinese New…

Tencent slide sees Naspers stock take 7% hit

Media and technology giant Naspers’ stocks fell sharply today on the back Chinese internet company Tencent taking a beating on the Hong Kong Stock…

China’s massive internet numbers: 618m online, 500m connected to mobile web

China now has 618-million internet users and 500 million mobile web users, according to new figures from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC)….

8 Chinese tech trends to keep an eye on in 2014

The new year is a time for reflection, but it’s also a time for looking forward. In this regard, we’ve taken a broad look…

It’s a blue world: Facebook’s empire grows in latest map of social networks

Facebook may or may not be dead to teenagers. If it is, it could certainly be an issue in the future but right now,…

Amazon Prime Air: just another pipe dream or technological breakthrough?

On 1 December, Jeff Bezos revealed on CBS’ 60 Minutes that Amazon is working on the creation of a new drone delivery system. The…

You might be unhappy on Facebook but Asians most definitely aren’t

Facebook has been seeing explosive growth in Asia. I think that’s driven by two things: Asia has the largest young population in the world,…

9 huge investments Koos Bekker could make if he cashed in his Naspers shares

Here at Memeburn we have massive respect for Naspers CEO Koos Bekker. Aside from the fact that he heads up a multi-billion dollar media…

Tencent’s WeChat now has 100m users outside China

It looks like there’s no stopping WeChat. The social instant messaging service from Chinese internet giant Tencent now has 100-million registered users outside China,…

Lenovo sells more phones and tablets than PCs for first time

If you’re in the hardware game, it might not be a bad idea to pay very close attention to Lenovo. The Chinese company is…

Sina Weibo now claims 50m active users a day

China’s Twitter equivalent and social networking super power Sin Weibo claims that it now has around 50-million active users a day. The figure, which…

Flipboard gets the Great Firewall treatment in China

It looks like Flipboard has become the latest victim to fall prey to the Great Firewall, the state-run system of censorship and surveillance that…

China’s internet wars: who’s sided with who?

The battle between China’s internet giants is only becoming more contentious, and the nation’s major companies seem to be making acquisitions and partnerships at…

Mobile video gets massive: China’s Youku hits 200m daily mobile views

It’s mobile, mobile, mobile with China’s video sites these days as they chase China’s middle-income web users onto tablets and smartphones. Today Youku (NYSE:YOKU)…

Alibaba reportedly set to buy stake in streaming video service PPTV

Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba is apparently in the final stages of talks to buy a stake in streaming video service PPTV, with an announcement…

Sina Weibo users can now post to Facebook… unless they’re in China

This is interesting. Anyone even vaguely familiar with the Chinese online scene knows that Western social networks like Twitter and Facebook are banned in…

Chinese researchers, Microsoft partner to teach Kinect sign language

The folks at Microsoft Research Asia have collaborated with researchers from the Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to…

Yahoo! buys Chinese social data startup Ztelic for R&D boost

Yahoo! has announced the latest buy in its frantic acquisition spree: Chinese social analytics startup Ztelic. The buyout is apparently a part of Yahoo!’s…

WeChat’s meteoric rise aids growth of other Chinese apps

The rapid rise of Tencent’s instant messaging and social app WeChat is well documented. Less well-known however, is the fact that its popularity has…

Baidu set to shell out nearly $2bn for app store operator

So you thought Facebook’s Instagram buy was big? Or maybe you were more impressed with Yahoo!’s Tumblr acquisition? Well those are about dwarfed by…

HONOR Hands Mzansi More Value This Black Friday with Major Smartphone and Tablet Deals

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