HTC (TPE:2498) has today unveiled a so-called ‘Renren phone’ - an Android-powered smartphone with baked-in widgets and features crafted especially for Renren.com (NYSE:RENN), China’s largest Facebook-like social network. The phone is dubbed the HTC Daren (pictured above). It’ll be priced at 2099RMB (US$330) unlocked, available only from official HTC or mobile telco outlets, and will launch a bit later this month. It was unveiled by the Taiwanese handset maker at its HTC Week event which is taking place in Beijing (in the same place where we were at for TC Disrupt ...
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Hubblr: A New Dashboard for Global Social Marketing – China Included
There are a lot of social media dashboards out there that try to bring together your social missives, but only one includes integration with China’s hippest social network - that’s Hubblr. It’s a brand-new, enterprise-oriented web app from an Australian start-up that’s aimed at making PR and online marketing across the globe - including China - a safer and slicker experience. Hubblr’s CEO and co-founder, Michael Lam (pictured right), gave me a guided tour over Skype, and then we coincidentally ran into each other again at TC Disrupt Beijing last week, giving ...
Nov 2 2011
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Memolane to Partner with Digital Garage on Japan Localization
Social media scrapbook/timeline service Memolane just announced on its blog that it will be creating a localized version of its service for Japan. It has enlisted the help of Digital Garage as a partner and an investor, in its efforts to serve the Japanese community. Our regular readers will recognize Digital Garage as the company that helped both Twitter and, most recently, LinkedIn enter the Japanese market. It is also the company behind the Open Network Lab incubator in Tokyo. Memolane says that outside of the US, Japan has been its ...
Nov 1 2011
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David Li, CEO of YY.com, Talks Gaming and Communities [Live Blog]
This is a part of our TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 Beijing event coverage. David Li - aka Li Xue-ling - is now sitting down for a ‘founder stories’ chat with TechCrunch’s John Biggs. David Li is the founder and CEO of YY.com and Duowan, the downloads and games portal that’s looking to IPO next year. #16:41: John: YY has 220 million users. How did you get there. Mr Li says "We have a lot of grassroots users. We have a strong gaming base, and the cooperation between gamers, with voice communication is crucial. ...
Nov 2 2011
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Indonesia To Become A Leading Nation For Tech Start-ups? [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Yesterday over on the Media Ide blog, I came across a recent study from Singapore Management University (SMU) about the state of the Indonesia digital media landscape. This is an update from its previous research last March, featuring richer data on the infographic, as well as a fun video explainer. The video shows the Indonesia start-up ecosystem today, including some Indonesia start-ups, tech investors, the supporting media and community. They ask provocatively “Indonesia will ...
Nov 1 2011
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Instagram Has 100,000 Downloads in China Each Week, Looking at Integration With Weibo
This is a part of our TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 event coverage. Kevin Systrom, the co-founder of popular photo-sharing app, Instagram revealed at Disrupt Beijing that his team's Instagram app has a whopping 100,000 downloads in China each week. And worldwide, there is around one download per second and even more over the weekend. Instagram got itself translated into ten languages - including simplified and traditional Chinese characters - within the first few week, which boosted the sky-rocketing first few months. Kevin says he realises that his start-up needs to do more ...
Oct 31 2011
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French Coders Cook Up Tianji Web App to Win Disrupt Beijing Hackathon
Three Frenchmen caught the judges’ eyes at the TechCrunch hackacthon to scoop the prize, despite plenty of international competition and local talent. Their winning ‘hack’ was a web app that tuned into the API of Tianji, China’s biggest business-oriented social network, and was deemed a winning combo of good-looking, useful, and easy to potentially monetize. I caught up with the trio - David Ruiz, Guillaume De Lazzer, and Mathieu Dardenne - on the sidelines of the TechCrunch conference. They admitted that the idea for the web app only came to them ...
Oct 25 2011
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Corporate Use of Social Media Across Asia [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Burson Marsteller (BM) has just released its Asia-Pacific Corporate Social Media Study for 2011, giving insights - and infographics - that cover how companies are using social media in the region. This year's study paints a picture of brands being ever more keen to engage with consumers via social media, yet still not doing some things very effectively - such as failing to use video on social video-sharing sites, and not maintaining corporate blogs where ...
Oct 21 2011
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Renmo, China’s “Evil” Social Network, Revealed as a PR Stunt
When we previewed the upcoming launch of Renmo last week, which promised to be a devilish twist on social networking, we were intrigued by how it might subvert social media in China by encouraging naughtiness and flirtation. But it turned out to be a PR stunt. And the final product is actually an online game. We'll confess it's a disappointment; but we promised an update to readers, so we'll take the bait and check out what Renmo offers as a game. Actually it's called Dungeon Keepers Online, and is available on ...
Oct 20 2011
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China Mobile Loses 30% of Campus Market, A Threat to its Future
A new school year in China, a new battle for mobile subscribers amongst China’s three mobile telcos. It’s an annual campus battle, in which the competing companies see a chance to lock-down a customer to one phone number - and one brand - perhaps for life. But China Mobile (HKG:0941), the country’s largest mobile network, is rapidly losing this fight for freshman customers, and that risks its entire market domination. Compared to its previous amazing success of up to 98 percent market share on China’s campuses, China Mobile is really suffering ...
Oct 20 2011
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Free Social Media Monitoring Tool Zeros in on Hotel Reputation Management
Hoteliers take note — Brand Karma is offering Brand Karma Express, a social media monitoring tool at zero cost. The tool tracks social mentions about your hotel on Facebook, Twitter, and TripAdvisor, all under one roof. The service looks neat from the video. It basically helps to streamline the customer support and engagement process on social media. Each online conversation/feedback can be assigned to the staff in-charge to prevent awkward double replies. It also helps to document conversations with users (see the main dashoboard, pictured below) to ensure staff don’t play ...
Oct 20 2011
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360Buy Announces its 100 Millionth Order, Thanks Social Media
360buy - also known as Jingdong Mall - is now China’s second largest B2C online market place. Yesterday afternoon, 360buy announced on its official Sina Weibo account that the company had just received its 100 millionth order. Also, its number of registered customers has reached 28 million. The site sells primarily 3C products, but it has diversified into books as well The order was placed by someone in Changsha, central China, who will, as a reward, get the whole order will be free of charge. Let’s hope that person ordered a ...
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