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Rumor: Alibaba Acquires Online Music Service Xiami.com?
Rumor broke by local portal Tencent claiming that Alibaba the ecommerce behemoth has stealthy acquired Chinese online music service Xiami.com. Xiami which also based in Hangzhou was founded in 2006 by...
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Baidu’s Approach to Mobile: Build the Groundwork
At a conference held by local business magazine BusinessValue over last weekend, Robin Li, founder and CEO of Chinese search juggernaut, shared with audiences – mostly Chinese Internet product managers...
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Alipay Shares Insights into Chinese Online Consuming Behaviors
Alipay, the largest and most popular Chinese online payment service, just shared its insights into its users’ online shopping behavior over the past year, given the service’s de facto dominating...
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Alibaba CEO Jack Ma Call It Quits, Still Pulling Strings from Behind the Screen
Jack Ma, the legendary founder/CEO and spiritual leader of Chinese ecommerce conglomerate Alibaba announced to step down as CEO of Alibaba by May 10th of this year, citing his “not young anymore” and...
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Chinese Big Data Startup Announcing Game Analytics Solution
Chinese startup TalkingData yesterday launched in Beijing its new initiative dubbed TalkingData Game Analytics (www.talkinggame.com) as the latest addition to the company’s data-centric solutions...
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Macworld’s China Innovation Forum Speakers Announced
As you might’ve heard of, TechNode is organizing an innovation forum across the pacific during Macworld conference to be held in January 31 in San Francisco, the forum will be featuring a series of...
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W3C Ramps up China Presence with Beijing Office Through Beihang Partnership
World Wide Web Consortium, the organization behind efforts like web standards and guidelines to ensure a long-term growth for the Web just announced to set up Beihang University as a new center for W3C...
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Sequoia China Backed up Mobile Payment Startup QFPay
Chinese mobile payment startup QFPay just announced on its official website to raise a financing of undisclosed sum from Sequoia China to accelerate its growth as the company, Beijing-based, just...
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Dodo China Presents a New Way to Learn Chinese More Easily
There’s a quite interesting discussion on Quora about how hard it is to learn Mandarin, the irrelevance between the speaking and writing system, the hidden meaning behind four- and eight-character...
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Qiuqiu: Help You Find the Other Half on Mobile
China’s location-based stranger networking app Momo earned itself mixed reception among mobile users, some adore it for its “hooking-up” utility while the others hate it for the same reason. The...
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Rumor: Qihoo Buys Mobile Game Platform to Ramp up Mobile Monetization
Rumor has it that Qihoo 360 just secretly acquired China’s southern Shenzhen-based mobile game developer and distributing platform iDreamSky for tens of million dollars. The move – if true – could be...
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Sogou Levels up Competition via Soso Takeover?
Latest rumor has it that Sogou was in talks with Tencent about a potential buyout of the latter’s search engine effort Soso.com, which echoes Mr. Wang Xiaochuang’s prior hints that the company would...
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Qihoo Acquires SaaS Online Security Startup RiZhiBao
Qihoo reportedly just acquired RiZhiBao, a Beijing-based online security startup providing SaaS-based services to give webmasters intuitive and comprehensive understanding of their website operations...
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Tujia Raised 400M in Two Rounds
Chinese vacation rental service Tujia revealed that the startup has raised a combined RMB 400 million in Series A and Series B round of financing from investors including GGV Capital, Lightspeed...
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Jiepang-Starbucks Tieup on Valentine’s Day Campaign Demonstrates New...
Jiepang, the Chinese equivalent to Foursquare, revealed today some interesting progress in the company’s utilization of LBS service as a new marketing channel via its long-time partnership with...
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China Surpasses U.S. as World’s Top Smart Device Market
China has replaced the U.S. as the largest market for active smart device worldwide, according to data released yesterday by mobile market intelligencer Flurry. The mobile analytics firm last year...
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360 Holds Hand with Jike to Combat False Drug Ads
Qihoo 360, the Chinese online security solution provider which now also runs head-to-head with Baidu, announced today a new partnership with a less well-known search engine dubbed Jike.com in a deal...
View ArticleChina Tech Roundup: Baike.com IPO? Alipay Restructure Rumor
Baike.com set up sales units for IPO? Chinese independent online encyclopedia service Hudong Baike (Baike.com) which raised RMB 100 million in its latest funding in last August reportedly set up...
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Rumor: Baidu to Partner with China FDA in Response to Qihoo Fight
We reported yesterday that Qihoo partnered with Jike.com to hook to the drug database of China’s State Food and Drug Administration in an aim help people discern legitimate drugs from the fake ones. It...
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Weixin to Set Foot in U.S.
Weixin, the most popular Chinese messaging app with more than 300 million users (mostly from China though), was said to make its foray into the U.S. for the first time, according to an internal email...
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