Flipboard Readies For iPhone Launch, International Push
News aggregation app Flipboard has introduced new features to support its upcoming iPhone version, whilst also apparently preparing to re-la… Read more »
45 Carriers Endorse Mobile Payment Standard, But Will It Make A Difference?
Near-field communications (NFC) is far from being a standard in mobile payments, but the wave-and-pay technology may have gotten its biggest… Read more »
Tencent Launches A Shanzhai iTunes To Sync Your iPhone, iPad
photo: Apple iPod Commercial
Tencent (HKG:0700), China’s social media giant, has thumbed its nose at Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) (NASDAQ:AAPL) by releasing a desktop ‘App Assista… Read more »
Apple's Only Dipping A Toe Into Mobile Payments, But It Could Make A Splash
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has yet to give a line on where it sees NFC in its future product and service roadmaps, but that doesn’t mean the company… Read more »
Renren, China's Facebook, Sees Strong Mobile Growth And More M&A
photo: Getty Images / Feng Li
China’s Facebook-like social network Renren, which floated on Wall Street in May 2011, says over half of its users now access the service th… Read more »
China's Internet Titans Fend Off Mobile Challenge With Microblog Growth
Two of China’s largest internet companies have reported contrasting Q3 financial fortunes – but each’s mobile fortunes have been hit by new… Read more »
Microsoft: Talking To Huawei For Android Patent License; Inks Openwave Deal
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) could be adding one more OEM to its list of Android licensees, and this one is a biggie: Huawei, the ambitious Chines… Read more »
China Has 70 Android App Stores, But That Could Soon Whittle Down To 10
photo: M.I.C. Gadget
Android is on its way to becoming the most ubiquitous smartphone OS in the world, but could the fragmentation in the platform — the many ve… Read more »
China Says No Net Video Allowed On TV
China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has been on the warpath recently. First, they threw a haymaker at China’s… Read more »
Mobile Apps Seeing ‘Astronomical’ Growth In China
These are the 10 countries where mobile apps have seen the fastest consumer adoption this year, new Flurry analytics show… Read more »
HTC Led Q3 U.S. Smartphone Sales, Nokia To Wait Until 2012 To Challenge It
Figures out from Canalys tracking smartphone shipments worldwide in Q3 have once again demonstrated that the flood of Android handsets on th… Read more »
Weibo’s English Ambition Is To Plug Western Companies In To China
The world’s largest microblog service does not want to take on Twitter on its home turf. But it does want to further limit Twitter’s chance… Read more »
China’s Digital Media Are Super-Accelerated And Super-Competitive
Scale is everything. And China’s digital economy, which differs radically from and often beats the West’s own but about which many Western o… Read more »
Hey, T-Mobile USA: Here’s A Tip From China Mobile On How To Sell The iPhone
photo: Getty Images / Feng Li
T-Mobile is the last major carrier in the U.S. not to have the iPhone — a consequence of the device’s radio chipsets being different from t… Read more »
Amazon’s China Story Continues: Planning For Kindle, Kindle Fire Release?
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) appears to be ramping up its activities in China. Today a report notes that the company is in talks with the Chinese gov… Read more »
Bulls In Wall Street’s China Shop: Baidu Soars, Another IPO Planned
photo: Corbis / James Leynse
Beijing-based Chinese portal Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) had the pleasure of telling the Nasdaq, where its stock is listed, how Q3 net income is up n… Read more »
Amazon Goes It Alone In China, With A New Name And URL
The American e-commerce site Amazon has made some big changes to its China site today – there’s now a new name and a new short URL, in a s… Read more »
Nokia Has A Brimful Of Hope For Emerging ‘Smart’ Phone Markets
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) unveiled four new Symbian S40 handsets designed to appeal to upwardly-mobile youngsters in emerging-markets with smartphon… Read more »
WPP Buying Further In To Chinese Online Ad Measurement
photo: Yodel Anecdotal
Chinese digital ads measurement firm Moment Systems is taking a $20 million second round investment led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers… Read more »
Samsung Inks Deal With Yandex For Smart TV, Bada Mobile Services In Russia
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Looks like Russia’s search giant Yandex is following in Google’s footsteps once again. Yandex is taking its services to new screens by inkin… Read more »
Naspers Targets LatAm, Asia, East Europe Online Investments
photo: Naspers
Naspers is a case study in media operator reinvention. Formerly just a South African newspaper publisher, the firm has steadily launched ISP… Read more »
Xyologic: Android Will Overtake Apple In Monthly Downloads In June 2012
photo: Flickr
The world of apps is only getting bigger, so it seems fitting that another company is jumping in to try to make sense of it all. One of the… Read more »
China Cripples Android With Fitful Blocks of Gmail, Market Apps
photo: Flickr / Laihiu
Google’s chronicle of woes in China has grown even larger, with the apparent Great Firewall block of Android’s Market and Gmail apps by auth… Read more »
New Service Gives Even The Most Basic Mobile Users Access To Facebook
Facebook’s annual conference, F8, was pretty thin on mobile news, but a news item today demonstrates how it’s not far out of Facebook’s site… Read more »
How Will Apple’s iPhone 4S Stand Up To Competition? Depends On The Market
photo: Getty Images / Feng Li
Quite a few commentators expressed a sense of deflation when Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) finally announced its newest device yesterday, the iPhone 4S… Read more »
Yet More Reports Of DST, Alibaba And Silver Lake Swarming Over Yahoo
photo: Getty Images / Chris Hondros
Not a new development, but further confirmation that there may be one on the horizon. China’s Alibaba, Russian investor Digital Sky Technolo… Read more »
The Rising iPhone Tide Will Lift Some Carrier Boats More Than Others
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Only one day left to iPhone news nirvana, and a lot of leaks are coming through about who will get to sell the device — and what, exactly,… Read more »
Angry Birds Aside, Think Globally, Act Locally When It Comes To Mobile Apps
photo: Barnes & Noble
There’s no question that apps have become a global phenomenon in the mobile world — and who doesn’t want to catapult a cute red bird onto s… Read more »
Chinese Internet Stocks Bashed By DoJ Accounting Inquiry
Some of China’s biggest online firms are taking a battering on Wall Street, following a report the U.S. Department of Justice is investigati… Read more »
China’s ‘Facebook’ RenRen Buys China’s ‘YouTube’ 56.com
A fusion of social and video in China… Renren, the social network which listed on Wall Street this spring, is acquiring the user-uploaded… Read more »
Tencent Weibo Launches English Version, Goes Bilingual Faster than Sina
While surfing around Tencent Weibo today, we realized something unique about the Chinese microblogging site – it has launched an option to… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-23-11: Google Spain; Apple Stock, Apple In China; ZTE; HP
photo: Flickr / Supermac1961
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Google has started to quietly distribute its own SIM cards with Nexus S devi… Read more »
Report: Pandora Prepping A Move In To China, Looking For Local CEO
The streaming subscription music service Pandora (NYSE: P) is reportedly head-hunting a capable China-area CEO ahead of a Pandora service la… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-20-11: Apple Stock; Google/Oracle; Nokia; Verizon; Samsung
photo: Getty Images / Daniel Barry
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) stock reached an all-time high yesterday, closing at $411… Read more »
A Free Twitter Has Lost In China To A Booming But Censored Weibo
photo: Sina Weibo
Twitter is now offering its web interface in Simplified Chinese. But a two-year-old block on Twitter being accessible in China has allowed S… Read more »
Mobile Ad Network InMobi Takes Huge $200 Million Investment From Softbank
photo: AP Images
Very big news today for the mobile advertising world, and a major boost for the mobile ad network InMobi: the company has just announced tha… Read more »
Mobile Roadie Looks To Boost China’s App Count, Goes East With Q Mobao
China’s tech giants have been piling into the app store space like a rugby team tackling a wobbling ball. Companies like Tencent, Alibaba /… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-14-11: Google/Motorola; Apple/China; Intel; Walmart
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Google agreed to pay 33 percent more — $3 billion — than it originally off… Read more »
Update: Samsung Takes Its Apple Fight To France, Apple Goes Big In China
No signs of this fight cooling off soon. Fresh from a ruling in Germany that denied Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) a Europe-wide injunction on Samsung’s… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-13-11: Samsung; Apple/China; Dolby/RIM; Nokia; HP Refunds
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» In the patent battles with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), software is Samsung’s Achille… Read more »
