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Tencent has launched a rival to Apple's FaceTime - a fully-featured mobile and tablet oriented video calling platform called Weishi. Now in private beta stage testing, with apps all ready for iPhone, and Android phones and tablets - with an iPad variant in the works - Penn Olson got a chance to go hands on with the app. We used two Nexus S phones that have front-facing cameras to give this a proper test and get some impressions on it. Note that Tencent's Weishi - once someone has an invite to get ...
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Lady Gaga Greets Indonesia on YouTube
Update: The video was produced by Yahoo Indonesia. The Indonesian version of Yahoo OMG site is what Lady Gaga is referring to in the video. Hat tip: April (see comments) Indonesia is a huge Twitter nation and Lady Gaga apparently knows that too. “I always see your very sweet Twitter messages to me to come to Indonesia and I promise I will be coming there soon…” According to Jakarta Globe, Lady Gaga skipped Indonesia on her recently completed Asian tour and took this video (below) in Singapore after seeing the huge ...
Jul 14 2011
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For Tudou.com, a Fourth Attempt at a US IPO Reveals Mounting Copyright Claims [UPDATED]
Tudou.com, which is a close second to Youku.com (NYSE:YOKU) for the title of China's biggest video site, is pushing forward with its fourth attempt at a US IPO. Its newest US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing reveals that the number of copyright claims it faces has gone up a lot even in the past month. Indeed since its last SEC filing in June we can see that there have been 46 more copyright claims slung at Tudou Holdings Ltd (currently TUDO:US, pending its listing). There are now 587 claims, versus ...
Jul 5 2011
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Xunlei.com is Newest Chinese Tech IPO, Looking at $900+ Million Valuation
The Chinese web platform Xunlei today announced its filing for a US IPO that'll allow it to raise US$114 million in funds, and effectively value the company at $912 million. It'll hit the NASDAQ tickers as XNET. Google already owns a small stake in Xunlei - meaning 'thunderbolt' in Chinese - so that after the IPO Google would have 1.4% of the voting rights. Xunlei's filings at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) - see the stats here - outline plans to issue 7.6 million copies in American Depositary Shares ...
Jul 4 2011
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KDDI’s Infobar Interface Available To Try in Web Simulator
With one of the most unique Android interfaces to date, KDDI’s iida Infobar handset is a pretty attractive smartphone option in Japan. While the body design doesn’t impress me too much, the gorgeous user interface is the feature that’s getting a whole lot of attention. And now KDDI has a web simulator that allows anyone to give it a test drive, whether you're in Japan or not. Designed by master web designer Yugo Nakamura, the Infobar’s tiled interface is very slick — although many have pointed out the resemblance to Windows ...
Jul 4 2011
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Qiyi Underlines its Hulu Ambitions With a Desktop PC App
The video-on-demand website Qiyi.com - which is owned by search giant Baidu - now has a brand-new desktop app for Windows PCs. It underlines how the site has ambitions similar to the US service, Hulu, in being the go-to source for full episodes of licensed TV and movie content. The Qiyi app has a layout familiar from the main website, where users can also stream videos in their browser, except that it's darker and has more visual elements. The main categories of video content in the app are: movies, TV series, ...
Jul 29 2011
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5 Creative BlackBerry Commercials in India
Every brand needs to communicate their product message consistently to remain foremost in their consumers' mind. As one of the most popular mobile handset brands in India, RIM’s BlackBerry has paid their dues and communicated their product features in a creative manner. Here are five fun-loving ads to help ease your Monday blues: 1. We are the BlackBerry Boys Here is one of the hottest and most popular BlackBerry commercials by Vodafone Eassar in India. It's a really catchy song, and almost everyone in the country knows this rhythm. 2. BlackBerry Messenger Ad - ...
Jun 28 2011
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Youku Inks Deal With Warner Bros, Will Add 400+ Premium Titles
Youku today announced it has signed a three-year deal with Warner Bros' China joint-venture, CAV Warner Home Entertainment, to "add a total of 400 to 450 Warner Bros New Releases and Catalog titles" to their pay-to-view Youku Premium site. It's not Youku's first tie-up with the US film studio, having licensed the hit thriller Inception from Warner Bros last year. Just the other day, my colleague Li Chen wrote about how China's video sites are needing to spend big to pay for increasingly pricey copyrighted content. In contrast, Tudou.com, over the weekend, ...
Jun 28 2011
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Tudou Shifts Strategy, Will Move Away from Licensed TV Shows, Movies
Tudou.com is set to change its content strategy, and will stop trying to compete on increasingly pricey licensed/copyrighted movies and TV shows, in a strategic shift signaled over the weekend by its CEO, Gary Wang. Marking a divergence from the TV-like - or Hulu-like - aspirations of Youku.com, and Baidu-owned Qiyi.com, Tudou will instead focus on two kinds of 'self-produced' content: high-budget animations, drama, comedy series, and lower-budget user-generated content (UGC) that somewhat resembles video podcasts - a content approach that Tudou has been trying for a little while, and likes ...
Jun 23 2011
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The Social Media Landscape in India [VIDEO]
Want to know how India is shaping up in the social media space? The country is doing great and the good folks at Nielsen India, made a video to explain exactly that. (They seriously deserve a like on Facebook for creating this awesome video.) They revealed several interesting statistics. Of the 80 million Indians online, one-third of them are on social media sites. Breaking down the stats, there are about: 28 million Facebook users 9 million Twitter users 9 million LinkedIn users in India. Social media is so popular among Indian Internet users that consulting ...
Dec 19 2011
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Hungry for Apple, Chinese Teen Girl Offers Virginity for White iPhone 4 [VIDEO]
A mainland Chinese teenage girl has been caught on Weibo in the act of selling her virginity - for a white iPhone 4. The girl has been identified by Hong Kong's branch of NextMedia as only surnamed Wen (pictured right), from Maoming city of south China's Guangdong province. She stated in her post that her "valuable first night" - which literally means 'virginity' in Chinese - was worth the gifting of a white iPhone 4, which retails in China for RMB 4,999 for the 16-gigabyte model. The girl, Wen, then gave ...
Jun 20 2011
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Cartier Joins Burberry, LV, and More Luxury Retailers with a Youku Brand Channel
Cartier, the exclusive jeweler and watchmaker, has launched a branded channel on Youku.com, China's biggest video-sharing site. It joins six other upscale brands - Louis Vuitton, Dior, Burberry, Gucci, Omega, and Mido - in opting to engage with Chinese consumers via Youku as a part of their social media strategy in the country. Cartier's branded channel - go take a look, if you fancy it - is a bit sparse thus far, with just four videos that have been watched only a few hundred times; but it's still in its infancy. ...
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Japan’s Social Giants: Trends in User Numbers [CHART]
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