Using tablets (especially iPads) in the classroom has been a dream for educators the world over for some time now, and increasingly, it is becoming a reality. Although it's extremely uncommon in China, one school -- Beijing's Shi Jia Primary School -- has started using Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPads for teaching. At present, the tablets are used in only one class: Morality and Society. Students use school-provided iPads to do things like create presentations and interact with each other in groups. They're not allowed to download or play games on the ...
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Luxury Online Store IhaveU Slips Some B-Round Financing Into Its Designer Handbag
The luxury e-commerce site IhaveU has announced that it has wrapped up B-round funding, though the full investment sum has not been revealed. The injection of investment was led by the CID Group and JAFCO Asia. IhaveU.com is one of a number of luxury B2C Chinese e-commerce sites that focus on couture brand clothing - along with other independent rivals such as The Luxury Club, as well as high-end fashion stores from web giants such as Sina (NASDAQ:SINA). IhaveU sells both men’s and women’s clothing and pricey accessories, from the likes ...
Feb 7 2012
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Qihoo Says Apple is Re-approving Its iOS Apps, Drama Over
Yesterday we noticed that all Qihoo 360 (NYSE:QIHU) apps for iPhone and iPad had been removed from Apple’s iTunes App Store, which caused a great deal of speculation online about what was going on. But this morning, a Qihoo representative tells PO that it was something of a mix-up, and that all the apps - such as its 360 Browser for iPad, and 360 Mobile Defender (pictured above) - will be back in Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) store in due course. Speaking via email, a Qihoo rep in its Beijing HQ tells us: ...
Feb 7 2012
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Shanghai Boy Imitates Mobile Game, Jumps Off Five-Story Building
Like many forms of entertainment, mobile games generally oughtn't be imitated in real life. Flinging birds at pigs, for example, is sure to anger the folks at PETA (and yes, probably the birds too). Likewise, jumping out of a five-story building with an umbrella to imitate a parachuting mobile game isn't a great idea. But that's exactly what one Shanghai boy did yesterday. The Hongqiao-area boy -- whose name and age were not disclosed -- miraculously was totally unhurt. This is not because parachuting with an umbrella is effective; rather, he ...
Feb 7 2012
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James Tong: How IDA and Gobi Ventures Help Startups Expand Into China
Last week I caught up with James Tong, a seasoned entrepreneur and venture fund partner, just before he went onstage for a discussion at our Startups in Asia event in Singapore. Knowing that he’d be talking about his background and entrepreneurial story during his ‘coffee chat’ on the stage, I thought I’d use our time instead to pick his brains on what startups need to do to succeed in China - and how the kind of agencies that he also works for can help them out. James - a Singaporean who ...
Feb 6 2012
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Facebook Still Looking at China as it Files for IPO
Facebook’s IPO filing this past week notes that the company is still indeed looking at China as a possible market for its popular social network, despite being currently blocked. While there have been no shortage of rumblings about about Facebook’s possible jump into China, when we asked representatives back in October), they were mum on the topic. But in the recent filing does explicitly mention China more than a few times, perhaps most notably in this remark: We may enter new international markets where we have limited or no experience ...
Feb 6 2012
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Sina Weibo Holds Tudou’s Hands, Youku Still on its Own For Now
Last Friday, Tudou (NASDAQ:TUDO) announced that they will be integrating on a deeper level with Sina Weibo. From now on, Sina Weibo users who are not registered with Tudou, but wish to share their videos with Tudou’s users, can use their Sina Weibo credentials to log into Tudou. Tudou claims to be the first video site to have such a partnership with Sina Weibo. Outside the world of online video, it’s not just Tudou doing this, though. Last week, we saw Qihoo 360 striking a similar deal where both companies share ...
Feb 7 2012
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Apple Bans Qihoo Apps From iTunes App Store
. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has apparently banned all iOS apps by the major Chinese web company Qihoo 360 (NYSE:QIHU) in a major embarrassment to the anti-virus and social media company. It is not known what has caused this severe penalty - or if it's a mistake - but Qihoo apps such as its 360 Mobile Defender, and its 360 Browser for iPad, have vanished from all nations’ iTunes App Stores (pictured below). The 360 Mobile Defender website gives the link to its app in iTunes - here - but it is now ...
Feb 6 2012
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Will 2012 Be a Tough Year for Chinese E-Commerce Sites?
2012 is still young, especially in China, where the new year doesn't really start until Spring Festival has wound to a close. And while the last few years have seen massive expansion in the e-commerce market and new companies springing up right and left, could 2012 be the year that sees that trend reverse? The China Business Journal thinks so. The paper ran a lengthy article today with predictions for 2012's e-commerce market. While e-commerce as a market is likely to continue to grow, that may not be enough to rescue ...
Feb 6 2012
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8 Search Engine Doodles for China’s Lantern Festival
Today in China is the Lantern Festival, the traditional end of the 15-day long Chinese New Year celebrations, although most people actually went back to work at the start of last week. And so many search engines have festive doodles depicting lanterns, or perhaps even the ‘tang yuan’ sticky rice dessert that many will eat tonight. Here are eight cute Lantern Festival doodles from both Chinese and overseas search engines. They’re in no particular order, though I’ve saved my personal favourite for last: The whole Google.com (NASDAQ:GOOG) domain is now showing this ...
Feb 3 2012
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Coffee Chat: From Singapore, Silicon Valley, and then to China [LIVE BLOG]
This post is a part of our coverage of Startups in Asia (Singapore), Penn Olson’s first tech conference. Our full coverage of the event can be found here, for our RSS feed, click here. Summary James Tong (pictured above), who hails from Singapore, is the founder and president of Asia operations at Dextrys. He's on the board of iDA, and is also a venture partner at Gobi Partners, which is a SG$100 million fund that focuses on Southeast Asian startups that have promise in the Chinese market. This morning he's chatting to our Willis Wee about ...
Feb 3 2012
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Qunar vs. Ctrip: Accusation, Threats, and Media Bullying
Yesterday, high-level folks at Ctrip (NASDAQ:CTRP), one of China's most popular travel websites, got an interesting text message from Dai Zheng, the vice president of Qunar. It read as follows: If your employee @老榕菁益 posts false evidence on my Weibo . I'm warning you I will use my full power to ensure there is a report about it. I'm giving you one last chance to teach this bastard to base what he says on facts. Thanks...Dai Zheng. The employee in question's real name is Wu Rongjing, an employee at a Ctrip branch ...
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