Amazon has launched a Chinese Kindle store with Android and iOS apps for reading ebooks. The store contains around 25,000 ebooks, most priced vastly lower than ebooks in the United States and Europe. Read more at GigaOM »
A majority of Chinese internet users say they pay for digital content. That finding is likely a demographic quirk — but may nevertheless mean a welcome market opportunity for vendors. Read more »
Months after China’s largest online video site was formed through merger, Tencent claims its own video site has already overtaken its rival thanks to its incredible diversified digital service scale. Read more »
Don’t call it ‘China’s Netflix’, but, fresh from its cost-saving merger, Asian video leader Tudou Youku now has agreements with all Hollywood majors to show their movies to its two million paying online video customers. Read more »
US politicians want to outlaw Chinese mobile phones – but China’s state news agency is happy to use an American technology vendor to power its mobile advertising ambitions. Read more »
Why distribute your video over third-party internet boxes when you can make your own internet TV? Chinese portal LeTV wants to own each piece of the online video chain. Read more »
Around the world, rival services are gobbling up emerging markets by rebadging Google’s software. Yandex is the latest, with its own Chrome-based web browser and alternative Android app store. Read more at GigaOM »
Legal online movie services offered by sites like Youku and Tudou may benefit after e-commerce platform Taobao consents to Hollywood’s pleas that it stop selling counterfeit movie discs. Read more »
China’s online video market is set for strong growth – so much so that the leading services are merging to share the costs of expansion. Read more »
China’s state broadcaster CNTV clocked huge online audience numbers during the 2012 London Olympics, and a big chunk of it came from mobile devices: 610 million streams were served to phones, tablets and connected devices alone, according to numbers shared exclusively with GigaOM. Read more »
No wonder Tencent ranked #9 in this year’s paidContent 50. In a land considered a piracy hotbed, the massive Chinese service has attracted millions to pay for online experiences. It’s all thanks to the humble instant messenger, Tencent GM Sophia Ong tells paidContent. Read more »
Portals used to be the on-ramp to a world of desktop web services. But individual apps and services rule the smartphone waves. Sina admits it’s worried and frightened about its role as internet springboard evaporating on mobile. Read more »
China’s online games market is huge. Now some of its biggest publishers want to replicate that success in the west. Where does that leave Zynga and Playfish? Read more »
The New York Times is launching a Chinese-language news site, cn.nytimes.com. Aimed at “educated, affluent, global citizens,” the site will publish about 30 articles a day in categories like world affairs, business and culture. Read more »
News Corp’s video gaming news and reviews site IGN is launching in to China, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Hong Kong, as part of its ambition to be a global games media brand. Read more »
Heard this one before? Controversial ISP-level web ads targeter Phorm is taking on more money to seek riches in another new country. But can it succeed in Asia where it has failed before? Read more »
Wall Street is replete with Chinese digital media stocks. But, as the Nasdaq welcomes yet another amid Facebook’s slump, how is the Chinese internet faring in New York? Read more »
Facebook’s rise has come on the back of astonishing international growth — but it needs to keep expanding everywhere, and in every way, to keep up with investors’ expectations. Where can it find the silver bullet? And how will it happen? Read more at GigaOM »
Apple may not be buying a high-design German home entertainment device maker, but that doesn’t mean investors in the rumoured target company won’t make a killing – and it doesn’t mean it won’t still have a part to play in Apple’s iTV. Read more »
We knew that shares in People’s Daily Online (SHA:603000), China’s government-backed news website, were hot, but apparently they’re a little too hot to handle. Read more »
The newspaper industry frequently thanks emerging markets growth for the surprising quirk of global print circulation growth.
But now emerging markets, too, are becoming advanced online media markets. Read more »
As China’s two online video leaders merge to improve their position in the fast-growing field, three of their rivals are teaming up to fight back. Read more »
China’s YouTube strikes a deal with broadcasters to power a western-style singing contest, as it merges with rival Tudou in a $1 billion deal. Read more »
Brightcove used to have significant staff in China, and was looking to expand in the country as late as March 2010 – but left China head over heels later that year. What’s left is Brightcove’s staff, now working for a local competitor, and the question: What happened? Read more »
The curious case of the missing citizen news site. Where is the new service that China’s Twitter-beating microblog operator launched to give news organisations anonymous tips? Read more »
China’s Communist Party is doing a good impression of a Silicon Valley news startup, as it floats its official newspaper’s web operation to finance catching up commercial services. Read more »
A mobile platform is only as strong as its app line-up, which in turn relies on the co-operation and keenness of app developers.
But lookin… Read more »
Chinese search engine leader Baidu is holding a developers conference today, from where it has just launched a cloud storage platform called… Read more »
The Motion Picture Association of America released statistics today saying that Chinese theatrical revenue grew 35 percent to nearly $2 bill… Read more »
Twenty-two Chinese authors now plan to sue Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) for 50 million yuan ($7.9 million), claiming 95 of their books were published… Read more »
After threatening to sue each other for copyright infringement in December, the largest players in China’s fast-growing online video market… Read more »
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group’s main business unit aims to delist from the Hong Kong stock market – but says the move is unrelated… Read more »
Shareholders in big Chinese online game developer Shanda Interactive Entertainment (NSDQ: SNDA) have voted in favour of a proposal by which… Read more »
Government officials in the city of Shijiazhuang raided an unnamed Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) reseller (not an official brand store) over the weeken… Read more »
Today brings news of yet another round of capital-intensive cost-cutting for the challenged mobile phone maker Nokia: the company today anno… Read more »
Marketers in China are fast moving advertising spend from offline to internet, one of the country’s largest online operators, Sohu (NSDQ: SO… Read more »
When you read the headlines of how ubiquitous smartphones are becoming, and how in some countries the mobile device is overtaking the PC in… Read more »
Another piece in Apple’s worldwide expansion looks like it might at long last be coming into view: the leading CDMA operator in China, China… Read more »
Nokia’s Q4 earnings, released on Thursday, make for some challenging reading for even the most hopeful of Nokia (NYSE: NOK) watchers. The ha… Read more »
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), as it winds up as a troubled joint venture to become fully part of Sony, is spinning out some talent… Read more »
