Japanese mobile social gaming company GREE (TYO:3632) has announced a number of global partnerships that will bring support tools as its prepares to launch its global gaming platform. There are 20 new international partners coming on board with GREE to assist with development, most notably Amazon and Microsoft. Other companies highlighted in GREE’s announcement are as follows: table.tableizer-table {border: 1px solid #CCC; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10px;} .tableizer-table td {padding: 4px; margin: 3px; border: 1px solid #ccc;} .tableizer-table th {background-color: #104E8B; color: #FFF; font-weight: bold;} LocalizationServer-side infrastructureDebuggingUser support Digital Hearts Co. Ltd. Amazon Data ...
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GREE Brings on Assortment of Partnership To Support Global Platform, Includes Amazon, Microsoft
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Nokia’s Sales in China Down 40% Last Year, Only Hope Rests in WP7
The final quarter of 2011 proved to be another chapter in Nokia’s (HEL:NOK1V; NYSE:NOK) horror story in China with the Finnish phone-maker reporting a drop of 40 percent in net sales compared to the same period in 2010. According to its newly-released unaudited results, the volume of devices sold in Greater China dropped 33 percent from Q4 2010 to the same quarter of 2011. It’s nothing new for Nokia, whose sales have been trending downwards in China for quite some time. The quarter-on-quarter figures are not so dramatic: sales down 19 ...
Jan 11 2012
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Microsoft Sues Chinese Retailers for Selling PCs with Pirated Software
The Financial Times is reporting today that Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is bringing a lawsuit against electronics and appliance retailers Gome (HKG:0493) and Buynow, claiming that computers sold in their stores have pirated copies of Windows and Office pre-installed. Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer claimed last year that even though PC sales are about the same in the US and China, the company makes about only five percent of its US revenue in China as a result of piracy. We’re not sure exactly how much Microsoft is seeking in damages from these two retailers, ...
Jan 10 2012
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360Fashion App Knows What Chinese Women Want, Coming Soon to iPhone, Android, WP7
American model and entrepreneur Anina loves fashion, tech, mobile - and China. And that’s why the country is the focus of her 360Fashion Social news app. It comes preinstalled on all Nokia N9 (Meego OS powered) phones sold in the country and mixes curated haute couture news with deep Chinese social media integration. Indeed, the app is a sort of third-party Sina Weibo client all by itself, which helps users chat and share designer info and pictures without launching another app. In conversation via email with PO, she says that China ...
Jan 9 2012
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Microsoft’s WP7 Prepping Launch in China and Across Asia, Stricter App Rules Apply
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has announced that app developers on its Windows Phone 7 (WP7) platform can now enable their apps and games to be distributed in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Argentina, and Chile. The WP7 app store - called the Marketplace - doesn’t yet support customers in those countries, but that looks likely to happen a bit later this year. The news came via the official Windows Phone developers blog. By opening up the submission process early to these nations, it’ll ensure that the Marketplace is full of apps once the ...
Jan 11 2012
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HomeShop18 and Microsoft Buddy-Up, Offer Vouchers to IE9 Upgraders
One of India’s biggest e-commerce sites, HomeShop18, has formed a tie-up with Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) to give online shopping gift vouchers to users who upgrade their browser to Internet Explorer 9, aka IE9. As a part of the promotional partnership, IE9 will even be available for download from the HomeShop18 site. All the online shoppers need to do is switch over to IE9 and then pin the e-commerce site to their Windows 7 taskbar, making the shopper eligible for the voucher the next time they use the check-out. It’ll also make returning ...
Dec 22 2011
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Rumor: Nokia Testing Lumia 800 for Launch in China in 2012
There’s a rumor in the Chinese media that Nokia (HEL:NOK1V; NYSE:NOK) is preparing its Lumia 800 model (pictured above) to be China’s first ever Windows Phone 7 (WP7) device next summer. Apparently, the Finnish mobile giant is extensively testing its Nokia Lumia 800 in its Chinese-language localization, as well as ensuring that its other services - such as its Comes With Music thingy - will work for locals on WP7. Nokia, however, has not publicly confirmed all this. Since this move would actually require more work on Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) side, especially in ...
Jan 11 2012
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China Loves IE6 – So Can the IE Auto-Update Finally Kill It Off?
China has far-and-away the greatest number of users of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) ancient Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser, with Chinese users of the decade-old web browser accounting for 27.9 percent of its global usage. That’s according to statistics compiled by Net Applications and which are touted by Microsoft itself. The tech giant actually wants IE6 to die so that the web as a whole - which is still so dominated by Windows and, by extension, Internet Explorer - can be a safer place. That’s the reason behind Microsoft’s decision to follow the ...
Nov 30 2011
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China’s Lenovo LePhone S2 to Get Windows Phone 7 Version in 2012
Lenovo’s (HKG:0992) own mobile product manager has confirmed that the brand-new LePhone S2 - unveiled yesterday at an event in Beijing - will spawn a Windows Phone 7 (WP7) version in the second half of next year. That seems to sync with what we’ve heard of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) prepping to partner with retail giant Suning to distribute and promote a whole bunch of WP7 handsets. Indeed, since Lenovo’s S2 is aimed exclusively at China, then this is most sure indication that Microsoft’s WP7 platform is now ready to fight against Android ...
Nov 29 2011
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Hundreds of Windows Phone 7 Apps Made at Bandung Institute of Technology
Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) ‘Innovation Center’ at the Bandung Institute of Technology (MIC-ITB) has linked up with Nokia (HEL:NOK1V; NYSE:NOK) and another partner to get Indonesian developers coding for the Windows Phone 7 (WP7) platform. And that has led to the creation of hundreds of locally-made WP7 apps that you could soon check out. The initiative was centred on the MIC-ITB Code Camp 2011 for WP7, in which Microsoft Indonesia, Navcor Nextology, and Nokia set a target of 200 mobile applications to be created by local developers. The training-oriented event, which was attended by ...
Nov 25 2011
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Rumor: Microsoft Picks a Retail Partner for WP7 Launch in China in 2012
Rumors in the Chinese business media suggest that Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is poised to launch its mobile OS, Windows Phone 7 (WP7) officially in mainland China next year - and that it’ll partner with Chinese retail giant Suning (SHE:002024) for promotion and distribution. Suning is not only a High Street electronics retailer - with over 700 stores across China - but is also slowly building up its late-starting e-commerce venture, where it faces stiff competition from younger and more aggressive sites such as Dangdang (NYSE:DANG), 360Buy, and Taobao Mall. The rumor points to ...
Dec 29 2011
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MSN Mall Closes, as Microsoft Rethinks its E-Commerce Strategy in China
MSN China has shuttered its MSN Mall, a B2C e-commerce site, in an apparent restructuring of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) approach to China’s cut-throat online shopping sector. It was established in 2009 with a local company named YoBrand, and focused on women’s fashion items, such as clothing, bags, and skincare products from numerous brands. The shutdown means that both the standalone yobrand.com site and the msn.yobrand.com domain have now closed, and contain only an official notice telling consumers what’s going on (pictured below). It advises people to find one certain jewelry brand on ...
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