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With Google Play stunted, China’s $35 billion app industry is like no other
Google’s Android mobile operating system is missing out on the lion’s share of China’s booming demand for mobile apps, despite accounting for 68 percent of smartphone sales in the final quarter of 2012.
The search provider’s much p...
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iPhone 4S sales see Apple’s market share in China rocket to 16%: Report
The first analyst data evaluating China’s smartphone industry in Q1 2012 is out, with Apple reported to have more than doubled its market share, according data from Woori Investment and Securities, reported by Yonhap.
Woori’s report concludes ...
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Chinese Railway Stations to Go Solar
 
A three-way strategic joint development agreement has been made between three Chinese companies that will see solar technology installed throughout the country’s public railway infrastructure.
Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., a developer of s...
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Is This the Most Incompetent Photoshopped Propaganda Ever? [Photoshop]





Look at this joke of an image. It's so stupidly absurd that either the Chinese government photoshoppers didn't really give a f*ck about it or they are the most incompetent Photoshop operators in the planet...
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Has Windows Phone overtaken Apple in China? Maybe, but Microsoft won’t confirm it.
Microsoft is keeping quiet on reports suggesting that brisk sales of Windows Phone 7-based devices in China have propelled its overall market share up to seven percent, taking it past rival Apple’s six percent in the process.
CNET and a number of ot...
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Yahoo’s $7.1 billion Alibaba deal leaves it free to make other investments in China
After months of speculation, Yahoo has finally announced that it has agreed to a deal to sell a significant part of its 20 percent stake in Alibaba back to the Chinese ecommerce giant. The agreement also frees the US firm to invest in other ventures in Ch...
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Engrish Funny: Accentuate the Accents


(Warning: Language)
In which we see one guy rapping in 11 different English accents. Classic!
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China’s Tencent focuses on mobile, ecommerce and overseas growth with restructuring
Chinese Internet company Tencent has announced a corporate restructuring move that will see it focus on developing its social network services, mobile offering and overseas presence through dedicated business units.
Tencent posted record earnings this wee...
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Exclusive: Yahoo Finally Set to Strike Alibaba Share Deal -- Half Now, Then Half of What's Left After Eventual IPO

Yahoo is in the final stages of selling a large chunk of its stake in the Alibaba Group back to the company — in a complex deal that is set to include a multi-billion-dollar share buyback to investors of the Silicon Valley Internet giant and an eve...
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A Look At Facebook’s Potential For Growth In Japan, South Korea, China
There’s been talk lately about Facebook’s growth potential among international markets. Much of this will depend on if and when the social network determines how to sell things on mobile, and if it can set up a seamless, user-friendly payment platform.
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Evernote’s new China service sees more signups than US and Japan combined during its first week
It’s been less than a week since Evernote unveiled its dedicated Chinese service, but already downloads of standalone Yinxiang Biji app are “off the charts”, according to Troy Malone, the company’s general manager in Asia Pacific.
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China’s Sina Weibo passes 300m registered users, reveals mobile usage is higher than PC
Twitter is blocked in China but that hasn’t stopped microblogging flourishing in the country, and proof of that comes with the announcement that Sina Weibo broke 300 million registered users in the last quarter.
News of the landmark, published on Si...
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Baidu aims to rival iOS, Android with own smartphone, OS and app store
Baidu has announced details of its soon-to-launch new smartphone and the cloud-centric operating system (OS) that will power it. The Chinese search giant says that the move, which will put Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS platforms under press...
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Money and Happiness: China Surveys Suggest a Limited Link

After two decades of extraordinarily rapid economic growth, people in China aren’t much happier than when they started, concludes a new review of the world’s largest, most accelerated country.
On the whole, China’s wealthy are slightly ...
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Why ‘going global’ makes no sense for China’s social networks, for now
They may only ‘live’ in one country, but China’s social network giants have no need to turn their attention to taking down Twitter and Facebook, at least until they get their own domestic houses fully in order.
Despite the common concept...
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Chinese browser maker UC wants 100m mobile users in India by 2015, will invest an initial $5m
India’s mobile Web market is growing impressively, to the point that it will overtake fixed-line Internet usage this year, and Chinese browser maker UC is among the companies keen to take advantage of this shift.
The company is investing $5 million ...
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Baidu to rival Android and iOS in China with cloud-centric smartphone platform
Chinese Internet giant Baidu is set to make a move to rival Google and others in China’s smartphone market with the upcoming launch of ‘Baidu Cloud’, a smartphone platform that integrates with its cloud-based storage service and other We...
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Asian game developer CMUNE snags record funding from Skype founder’s Atomico fund
Asian games developer and publisher CMUNE has made a significant announcement after revealing that it has raised “record” funding from Atomico, the international VC fund established by Skype founder Niklas Zennström.
Speaking at the GMIC event...
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Apple's Using Its Mountain of Cash to Improve Working Conditions in China [Apple]





Working conditions in Foxconn's Chinese manufacturing plants have been the turd floating around Apple's Scrooge McDuck swimming pool of money for a while. Now Apple is reportedly partnering with Foxconn to...
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US wary of security threats as China Mobile waits on operator licensing decision
China Mobile, the world’s largest operator with more than 665 million subscribers, is said to be causing concern to US authorities as it awaits on a decision on an application for a license to operate in America.
The company’s international ar...
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Foxconn CEO: Apple will share the cost of improving workers’ conditions
Foxconn has revealed that Apple will jointly share the cost of improving the conditions of workers at its Chinese factories which produce the US company’s iPhone and iPad devices.
Speaking to media at the launch of its new China headquarters in Shan...
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Evernote launches Yinxiang Biji, its dedicated service for China
Evernote has announced that it has launched a dedicated service for Chinese users, Yinxiang Biji, which will run completely separate of Evernote and its existing Chinese-language offering.
Last week, CEO Phil Libin revealed that the firm was close to open...
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Flipboard CEO: We’ll soon have more downloads in China than the US
Flipboard CEO Mick McCue has revealed that its number of downloads in China will “easily surpass” those in the US in the near future, as its move to create a Chinese operations begins to reap rewards.
The company launched a Chinese service las...
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Sina Weibo to introduce ‘user contract’ on May 28 as China’s microblog crackdown continues
Fresh from admitting that it hasn’t fully implemented China’s new rules for microblogs, Web giant Sina is set to introduce a ‘user contract’ for its popular Twitter-like Sina Weibo service at the end of May, as it continues to batt...
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China’s Tencent inks deal to stream its QQ Music service on Sonos HiFis
Chinese Web giant Tencent has made a move to boost usage of its music service in the home away from the Internet, after inking a deal with US audio system maker Sonos, the LA Times reports.
The partnership will see support for Tencent’s QQ Music ser...
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Al Jazeera forced out of China after being refused new visas
Al Jazeera has been forced to close its bureau in China, after the government declined to renew the visa of the organisation’s China anchor, and refused to sanction a replacement.
The Arabic news agency closed its English language channel in China o...
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China Telecom introduces corporate iPhone deal as it seeks to overcome recent slump
China Telecom, the country third largest operation and recent new Apple partner, is wooing corporate customers with a deal aimed at increasing sales of the iPhone 4S and boosting its 3G business, according to The Standard.
Beijing-based companies that buy...
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Post-Facebook IPO: Is China On The Horizon?
Persistence pays, goes the motto, and, in some cases, more handsomely than others. Facebook’s ambition to pursue a business relationship with China has not dwindled, and if anything, the company’s May 18 initial public offering makes the proposition even ...
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The Worst Job Ever! – Zoo Keeper Licks Constipated Monkey Butt For An Hour So It Can Pass A Peanut
You just can’t make this shit up. This tiny monkey is so constipated that it can’t pass a peanut and if it doesn’t poop then it just might die. Enter the brave and fearless Zoo Keeper, with a kinky fetish for rimming monkeys and a tongue...
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Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi hits $158m in revenue, 500,000 monthly shipments
Apple may be the company generating headlines from its Chinese smartphone efforts but lesser known Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi‘s business is taking off impressively. The firm introduced its $320 MI-One device last year, and it is now seeing revenues...
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Baidu launches an office in Australia to help local companies tap into China’s Web potential
Chinese Internet giant Baidu has continued its international expansion after it announced that it has entered Australia this week.
Mumbrella reports that the company, which runs China’s most popular search engine portal and other services, has appoi...
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World's Largest Underground High-Speed Rail Station Will be Spectacular, Surreal-Looking [Architecture]





The Express Rail Link West Kowloon Terminus, when completed (sometime in 2015), will be the world's largest underground high-speed rail station, occupying a whopping 4,628,481sq/ft! Its surreal modern desi...
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RIM woos China’s developer community ahead of upcoming BB10 launch
RIM is struggling in the US, and to a lesser extent in Europe, but its presence in parts of Asia and the Middle East belie its faltering status in the West. Aware of the importance of emerging markets, RIM is working hard to prepare the ground for the upc...
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Report: 100,000 Instagram photos shared to China’s Sina Weibo, just one month after its integration
It’s been one month since Instagram added support for Chinese microblog service Sina Weibo, and the blockbuster app is reported to have seen 100,000 photos shared to the Twitter-like site during the period, according to TechWeb [Chinese], via Resona...
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Chinese Web firm Sohu posts 30% annual revenue increase, but profits slump by 46%
Chinese Web firm Sohu, which operates the country’s third largest search engine, had a “challenging” first quarter of 2012, in which it posted revenue growth but saw profits slump, according to its latest earnings.
The group saw the quar...
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Soon-to-merge Chinese video giants Youku and Tudou discussed coming together early as 2009
The announcement of the merger between Chinese video giants Youku and Tudou caught many off guard in March, but a recent filing from Youku reveals that representatives from both firms had discussed the possibility informally as early as 2009.
Of the detai...
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Despite Crackdowns, Sina Still Winning the Weibo Game
Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo may be in the midst of its most aggressive crackdown yet following an explosion of political rumors among users, but it is still beating Tencent in the microblogging race in China, according to a McKinsey & Co. r...
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Chinese Web giant Sina admits slow application of microblog rules, fears new government crackdown
Sina, the Chinese Internet giant behind popular Twitter-like service Sina Weibo, has admitted that it is yet to fully apply China’s ‘real name’ verification rules and fears the impact of a new government crackdown, according to a NASDAQ ...
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Woman Kills Man By Squeezing His Testicles [WTFriday]





The man on the ground is a 42-year-old shop owner in the Meilan District of Haikou City, in Hainan, that big island south of mainland China. He is dead. A 41-year-old woman killed him. By squeezing his tes...
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First Sheep Cloned With "Good Fat" Is Healthier For You [Science]





It sounds like something out of science fiction; splicing DNA from one animal into another to create some sort of genetic hybrid, but Peng Peng the sheep has made it science fact. The adorable newly-cloned...
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Couple Busted Trying to Sell Meth and a Military Drone to China [Spies]





Meth and drones, meth and drones—there's hardly a more imaginable combo that pairs better. The PB&J of espionage. At least according to a Taiwanese duo, accused of an attempt to smuggle out military ...
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SEC probes US movie firms’ deals in China for “inappropriate payments”
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is probing deals struck by US movie studios that in China, according to anonymous sources reported by Reuters, as the organisation looks into details of “potential inappropriate payments” and other ...
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Apple Could Build Its Products in the U.S. and Still Make Tons of Cash [Apple]





You know how Apple makes most of its gear in far-off lands where the people that build them make shamefully little? We always assumed that it had to be like that for Apple to run a successful business. Tur...
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Mysterious Rainbow River of Pills Appears In China [Wtf]





This sewer runs along Zhengshang Road, in Zhengzhou, China. On April 21st, the strangest thing happened overnight: it got covered with pill capsules. Pill capsules everywhere, gazillions of them, turing th...
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India Just Successfully Test Launched a Missile That Could Blow Up China [Missiles]





Today, India successfully tested the Agni-V, a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. The missile has a range of over 3,000 miles and could potentially reach B...
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Chinese Web giant Sina’s new citizen reporting platform pulled amid rumor of government interference
We’ve seen plenty of efforts aimed at creating citizen news channels — the last few days alone saw Dabble and Signal launch — but Chinese Web giant Sina‘s effort to join the grouping cluster of news-gathering services has been the ...
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Hong Kong student behind Steve Jobs-Apple logo tribute lands Coca Cola ad project
Hong Kong design student Jonathan Mak Long, who gained global recognition last year for a unique logo tribute to Steve Jobs, has seen his career begin to take off after the young designer landed an advert for Coca Cola following his Apple success.
The 20 ...
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How Sweet Is This Subterranean Shanghai Hotel Going to Be? [Architecture]





At the foot of the Tianmashan mountain, at the site of a now-abandoned quarry, the InterContinental Shimao Wonderland will stand 18-stories tall—16 of them below ground! More »

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China Now Tops US in Space Launches [Military]





For the first time ever, China has launched more rockets into orbit in a year than the U.S. In 2011, the Chinese sent 19 rockets into space. The U.S. sent just 18. Russia, the Walmart of space launches, fi...
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