Tag Archives: Asia

China’s Tencent focuses on mobile, ecommerce and overseas growth with restructuring

May 18, 2012   Jon Russell

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 week — with quarterly revenues…

Samsung Galaxy S III pre-orders reach 9 million worldwide, says source

May 18, 2012   Jon Russell

The Samsung Galaxy S III was unveiled in London at the beginning of this month but, just two weeks later, the long-awaited device is reported to have racked up 9 million pre-orders from mobile operators across the world, according to Reuters.…

Streaming service Spuul brings Bollywood to the iPhone and iPad with new iOS app

May 18, 2012   Jon Russell

Fans of Bollywood and other Indian films have a new option for watching movies on the go after streaming service Spuul launched an iOS app, bringing its catalogue of content from the Asian country to owners of the iPad, iPhone and iPod…

Korea’s Treum helps companies cut through the noise and find value from social media data

May 17, 2012   Andy Tebay
Korea’s Treum helps companies cut through the noise and find value from social media data

Social media platforms, along with the number of users, continue to grow at an incredible rate and the amount of updates, tweets and links that are sent all over the world each day is nothing short of staggering.
An online…

Anonymous takes down Indian government sites in response to clampdown on The Pirate Bay, Vimeo and others

May 17, 2012   Nancy Messieh

Anonymous have just successfully taken down their latest target, this time setting their sights on the Indian authorities, The DNetworks reports.
One of the Anonymous Twitter accounts which has gained quite a following announced the attack earlier today:
MT Operation…

Confirmed: Pinterest raises $100 million from Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, previous backers

May 17, 2012   Robin Wauters

After we broke the news that visual bookmarking and curation site Pinterest was about to announce a big funding round, with AllThingsD following up with the name of (the only) new backer Rakuten, the Japanese ecommerce giant this morning confirmed…

India tipped to overtake the US to become the world’s biggest Facebook market by 2015

May 17, 2012   Jon Russell

It has just seen Brazil overtake it to become Facebook’s largest overseas market, but India is being tipped to overtake the US and the Latin American country to become the planet’s largest collection of Facebook users by 2015.
India currently…

Appcelerator raises $3m more from Presidio for app development platform

May 16, 2012   Robin Wauters

Exclusive – Appcelerator, the US company behind popular cross-platform iOS, Android and Web app development solution Titanium, has received an extra capital injection to the tune of $3 million, The Next Web has learned.
The company recently raised $16 million…

Evernote’s new China service sees more signups than US and Japan combined during its first week

May 16, 2012   Jon Russell

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.
Ordinarily, Evernote was adding…

China Mobile chief reveals ongoing talks with Apple over the iPhone

May 16, 2012   Jon Russell

China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile telecoms carrier with 650 million subscribers, has confirmed that it is engaged in discussions with Apple to carry the iPhone, but it isn’t likely to be the iPhone 4S.
Past negotiations are believed to…

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