Google has completed its first-ever user survey of smartphone usage around the globe, and we have a glimpse into some of the Hong Kong-focused stats and trends. For this project, Google partnered with Ipsos Research to analyze 30 markets around the globe, 11 of which are in the Asia-Pacific region. We’re focusing on HK because we have some snippets of the report from StartupsHK. This research is the largest ever that has been conducted using the same methodology across so many countries. Some of its findings will affect how the mobile ...
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Aug 19 2011
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Could Google’s Purchase of Motorola Mobility Make it Illegal in China?
Google's out-of-nowhere purchase of Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion made headlines across the tech world and led to speculation that, following in Apple's footsteps, Google may be looking to make its own handsets for the Android platform. But in China, the move is raising other concerns. In a recent interview with Xinhua, China's state wire service, an official from China's Department of Commerce said that they had noted Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility and that the Department has not yet received an anti-monopoly application from Google. Under Chinese law, companies whose ...
Aug 18 2011
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Teliportme, Maker of 360 Panorama App, Looks at the Bigger Picture
Teliportme is the Indian start-up that’s the maker of one of Android’s most awesome apps: 360, the panorama photo maker. The free app’s clever panorama stitching feature was made with input from Teliportme’s advisor, the entrepreneur Bala S. Manian, who has an Academy Awards certificate for technical merit for his work on Star Wars. Penn Olson chatted with Teliportme’s PR man, Sushant Ghargi, to hear how the company is rebranding itself from Phototour.in - which was its name when CEO Vineet Devaiah sat down to chat with TechCrunch last year - ...
Sep 19 2011
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Tencent Launches an ‘iTunes for Android,’ Gives Google a Syncing Feeling
Just as nature abhors a vacuum, Chinese web companies are amazingly good at filling a niche in the market. And so it follows that Tencent yesterday launched an Android management app that’s a sort of ‘iTunes for Android.’ As Android rockets in popularity in China, there’s obviously a huge hole to be filled by the lack of an Android equivalent of iTunes. That’s what Tencent’s new ‘App Assistant for Android’ aims to be. It’s a Windows app for managing everything about your Android phone over USB or wifi - downloading ...
Aug 11 2011
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Google+ in Indonesia: A Talk With Two Power Users [INTERVIEW]
We have all read about the rapid growth of Google+, already 25 million users strong and often touted as a potential Facebook or Twitter killer. It is a powerful tool, but how will it fare in Indonesia? As a social media nation, I expect it should do quite well. Driven by early adopters, the current number one user (in terms of being followed) is +Alderina Gracia with more than 3,500 followers, according to CircleCount. Most casual users are still learning how to use circles and maximize Google+. In an effort to learn more about ...
Aug 4 2011
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Catch Ramadan Prayers Streaming Live on YouTube!
During Ramadan, every Muslim around the world will perform Tarawih prayers every night. This practice recently received a technological boost thanks to YouTube's live streaming video from the Islamic holy land. Through a new cooperation between Google Arabia and the Saudi Ministry of Culture and Information, every Muslim around the world can now enjoy live streaming of Islamic prayers during Ramadan from the Holy Mosque, Masjid Al-Haram. As the largest mosque in the world, and also the sanctuary for the Holy Kaaba, it’s the centerpoint of all Muslim prayer. Tarabzona Abdul Rahman, ...
Jul 27 2011
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Gmail Market Penetration is 62% In India, World’s Highest By Far
We learned recently that one of the notable details about the rise of Google+ is how strongly it has taken hold of Indian early adopters, with that nation ranking only behind the US in terms of users on the new platform. But according to new data from comScore, the penetration of GMail in India is pretty remarkable as well, with a whopping market penetration of 62 percent. We recently reported about how the Indian government has come under fire because of its affinity for using free web mail. It appears that ...
Jul 27 2011
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New Highs and Lows for Baidu, Google, in China Search Engine Market [INFOGRAPHIC]
Google.com.hk seems to be going down like a lead balloon in mainland China, with Google reaching its lowest ever ebb in the search-engine market in China. In Q2 2011, Google dipped to just under 20 percent in its search share here, while Baidu soared for the first time to just past the three-quarter mark, at 75.81 percent (see table and graph below). The unedifying news means that Google has lost nigh on half its market share since Q1 2009. A noticeable dip can be seen in mid 2010, when the Google/Gmail ...
Jul 26 2011
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Chinese Netizens Protest Google+ Real-Name Policy, as Users Get Booted
There are increasingly loud protests and pleas among Chinese users of Google Plus, Google's new social media site, that the real-name policy is endangering users who might want to speak openly, without fear of state persecution. As each day goes by, more Chinese users are getting deleted from G+ due to their usage of a nickname on the site. For some it's a habit carried over from their Tencent QQ profiles, but for others it's about having a degree of anonymity for safety's sake, to be able to engage in debates ...
Jul 25 2011
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Chinese Artist Ai Wei-wei Breaks Social Media Silence, Joins Google+
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Jul 22 2011
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Google to Open an Office in Indonesia This Year
Speaking to the vice president of Indonesia, Boediono, Eric Schmidt shared Google plan's to open an office in Indonesia before the end of this year. Schmidt, Google's Executive Chairman, is visiting Bali for the Global Entrepreneurship Program Indonesia and the Regional Entrepreneurship Summit at the Grand Hyatt Bali together with Hillary Clinton. As quoted in this article by Tekno Kompas, Yopie Hidayat, a spokesperson for the vice president, explained that Google wants to expand their business in Indonesia through expanding the platform that connects small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to buyers in ...
Jul 29 2011
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Will Skype and Gmail Give Your Data to the Indian Government?
The recent Mumbai bomb blasts has the Indian government in a frenzy. Just after it gave RIM (Research in Motion) an deadline to hand over interception keys for its BlackBerry services, the government has now asked Skype and Google’s email service Gmail, to provide access to their data. These ultimatums are serious ploys by the government, as was echoed by the words of newly sworn-in junior Telecommunications and IT Minister Sachin Pilot, who said: There are a whole list of companies that have been asked to give provide solutions, because law enforcement ...
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