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Mobile App
Will Native Mobile Apps Die?
by Jason Lim
on Mar 16, 2012 • 1 Comment
When I was in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, I was kindly invited to attend a Frog Design talk controversially titled, “Mobile Apps Must Die”. The talk was given by Scott Jenson, Frog’s Creative Director. Jenson originally blogged about this on Frog’s DesignMind blog and received a lot of opinionated attention. Of course you would...
CHINA
Get ready for Angry Birds Space Chinese edition, coming next week
by Guest Editor
on Mar 16, 2012 • No Comments
Mobile Market (MM), the largest Chinese app store curated by China Mobile, announced today on Weibo that Angry Birds Space will be available in the market next week on March 22. It’s an exciting news for every pig-shooting fan in China. The game will be launched exclusively by Mobile Market, according to the app store’s...
CHINA / Web 2.0
Chinese Wikipedia Hudong to Invest Big into Mobile Effort
by Ben Chiang
on Mar 15, 2012 • No Comments
Hudong Baike, the Chinese Wikipedia announced today to invest RMB 80 million to ramp up its mobile efforts with revamped WAP site and to-be-launched mobile smartphone clients. Founded in 2005, the Beijing-based company as of this February claims more than 4.53 million users and over 6.36 million entries. It raised an aggregate of US$ 30...
Augmented Reality
PicPic App Uses Augmented Reality and a Cute Bird to Show you the World
by Jason Lim
on Mar 15, 2012 • 1 Comment
Steven Chiu, most famous for co-founding one of China’s largest online recruitment websites www.zhaopin.com, has moved on to a more innovative social media game development company called ClearWorld Media. Their first game release is called PicPic App. I’m a big fan of augmented reality (AR), so I was keen to check this out. PicPic is...
Augmented Reality / Gaming / Mobile
NBA King of the Court, Brings Games to You through Augmented Reality
by Jason Lim
on Mar 15, 2012 • No Comments
When I was in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, I met Tatiana, Marketing Manager for Ogmento, an augmented reality (AR) mobile game development company at the Pocket Gamer After Party. She showed me a cool new location based, augmented reality app they have released called “NBA: King of the Court”. In the real world, basketball...
Mobile App / TechNode News
TechNode iOS and Android App Now Available!
by Jason Lim
on Mar 15, 2012 • 1 Comment
We are proud to announce the official launch of a TechNode app on Apple and Android, available for free download today. In the Apple store, it is called “TechNode Asia” (someone got Technode first!) and in the Android Market it is called “TechNode”. For our app, you can read our latest content, check when our...
CHINA / Gaming
Qihoo360 works with Rovio for Angry Birds Space’s Chinese launch
by Guest Editor
on Mar 14, 2012 • 2 Comments
Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd. (Qihoo 360) is a leading Internet platform company in China as measured by active user base. At the end of September 2011, we had 370 million monthly active Internet users, according to iResearch. Today, Qihoo360 announces a cooperation with Rovio, to bring Angry Birds: Space to Chinese inland mobile market. And...
MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS
My Mobile World Congress Experience in Barcelona
by Jason Lim
on Mar 13, 2012 • 1 Comment
It’s been over a week now since Mobile World Congress (MWC) ended in Barcelona. Now all the loud hype over new product releases, partnership announcements and wild parties has settled down, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on my experience at MWC 2012. Actually just last night, I presented my experience...
Angel Investment / Startups
Opportunity for 20 Start-ups to Pitch Angel Investors at Bizspark MEGA Angel Investment Forum, April 17th
by Jason Lim
on Mar 13, 2012 • No Comments
In cooperation with Microsoft and Nokia, China Entrepreneurs is organizing an angel investor pitch day for 20 start-ups on April 17th as part of their BizSpark-MEGA Angel Investment Forum 2012. With many VC’s crowding around in the series A funding rounds, competition to invest in start-ups is pushing them downstream to more early stage companies. This is...
Web 2.0
How Many Pinterests Does Taobao Need?
by Ben Chiang
on Mar 12, 2012 • 1 Comment
At TechNode, we raised a question about “How Many Pinterests Do We Need” couple months ago, and now the question could be modified to “how many Pinterests Does Taobao Need” as the largest Chinese B2C site is launching a new visual sharing service soon under its Etao subsidiary. Etao is reportedly beta testing a Pinterest-like...
CHINA / Video
Breaking: Youku to Merge with Tudou
by Ben Chiang
on Mar 12, 2012 • 1 Comment
Youku (NYSE: YOKU) and Tudou (NASDAQ: TUDO), two of the leading China-born the U.S. listed online video site announced today that the two have reached a definitive agreement for Tudou to combine with Youku in a 100% stock-for-stock transaction. Victor Koo, founder and chief executive of Youku said that “the new company will have the...
CHINA / E-Commerce
360buy to Acquire Logistics Company CCES, Chinese B2C’s Logistics Conundrum
by Ben Chiang
on Mar 12, 2012 • No Comments
Words have been circulating on Weibo that 360buy, one of the largest Chinese B2C service is poised to acquire Shanghai-based express logistics company CCES. Liu Qiangdong, founder and CEO of 360buy once revealed on Sina Weibo last year that “there’ll be more than 25,000 new colleagues joining Jing Dong Mall in 2012”. Since then people...
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