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Think Big: Win $25,000 to Study at Singularity University
The Singularity University’s China Competition asks one question for Chinese thinkers: “What new product or service can you create, through leveraging technology, that could improve the lives of 10...
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Whale Island in Winter Will Delight More Than Just the Kids
The best children’s toys delight more than just the kids, and Winter Island in Winter for iPad 2 does just that. Think of the favorite storybook from your childhood, and add touch. The premise is...
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UCWeb, China’s leading mobile browser, speeds into emerging markets
In PC Internet, Silicon Valley companies are leading the world. In the mobile Internet era, UCWeb CEO Yongfu Yu believes that Chinese companies will soon join American companies in global leadership....
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CHINICT: Stars of China Tech – May 24-25 in Beijing
The CHINICT conference is coming up on May 24-25 in Beijing at Tsinghua University Science Park, the center of China tech innovation & entrepreneurship. The main course is a star-studded lineup of...
View ArticleOn Investing in China’s Early Stage Startups [SlideShare]
I’m a sucker for a good SlideShare and Tayler Cox has put together a very good one. Tayler’s an investment associate at the Zhen Fund, a startup investment fund masterminded by Xu Xiaoping, the...
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Three Crises for Old Media in China
On Saturday I spoke at a panel at Peking University on the topic: “New Media vs. Traditional Media: Cooperation or Competition?” It was hosted by the Global China Connection, an organization imbued...
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10 Entrepreneurs x 10 Minutes: Beijing, August 18th
Here’s a groovy startup event. Event details straight from the organizers: iWeekend and Chinaaccelerator jointly present 10 x 10 (Ten by Ten) – a unique event for entrepreneurs and the start up...
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Event: Silicon Dragon with China’s Top Investors – Sep 13, Shanghai
Silicon Dragon is back in Shanghai on Sep 13. As always, it’s a collection of all-star investors talking about what’s what in China tech. Here are the details: When: September 13, 2012 4-8PM Where:...
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WeChat’s Quest to Become China’s First Global Internet Product
As I exited the Taipei City Hall metro station, two beautiful Taiwanese girls in short shorts and skimpy tank tops approached me. The ice-cold shower of reality hit me two seconds later when I found...
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WeChat Hits The New York Times
Journalist Adam Century recently wrote about Weixin in the venerable pages of The New York Times. It’s high time for WeChat to start getting international attention. The story, Chinese Messaging App...
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TechRice in the Year of the Snake
As the Year of the Snake is nearly upon us, here’s a quick update for our TechRice readers. First, the good news: we followed our resolution from last year to focus TechRice exclusively on analysis...
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Year of the ChinaDroid
Nestled in the hills of Shenzhen in southern China, stands a factory that churns out smartphones day and night. Migrant workers labor for fourteen-hour shifts, six days a week. Most welcome the...
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A Guide to the US-China Cybersecurity Issue
US intelligence officials are now saying that cyber attacks and espionage are supplanting terrorism as the top threat to US security. If you’ve been paying attention to the mountains of blood and...
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From Inside the Black Hole: Data on China’s Top Android Apps [Infographic]
China is a black hole of data in most reports about Android apps. For the rest of the world, you can just use Google Play data, no other app store really matters. Not so in China. So at Wandoujia we...
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China’s Android Growth is Far Beyond Our Wildest Expectations
As I was reviewing an old business plan for Wandoujia, I stumbled across our old projections for Android growth. In Nov. 2010, we projected Android to have about 140 million users worldwide, with 20...
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Cooliris: Can A Little Startup with a Great App Enter China?
Cooliris is speaking on a panel at the GMIC today entitled, “International Apps Doing China the Right Way.” At 15 employees, they’re far smaller than any of the other startups on the panel: Flipboard,...
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Vericant’s Interview Videos Let US Schools Meet Their Chinese Applicants
I’ve wanted to profile Vericant ever since I met the co-founder Guy Sivan at StartupWeekend event two years ago. Now, I finally have the chance: his startup is emerging from semi-stealth mode. Vericant...
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How China Fell in Love with Fruit Ninja
Fruit Ninja is the #2 smartphone game of all time, said Phil Larsen the CMO of Halfbrick Studios in an interview at the GMIC. So how did this slasher of satisfyingly squishy fruits move into China? For...
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Tech Stars of Tomorrow Event – May 29 in Beijing
I’ll be moderating a tech chat at this upcoming event in Beijing. Silicon Dragon is a great forum for bringing together some of the smartest Chinese VCs and entrepreneurs. SILICON DRAGON BEIJING 2013...
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Xiaomi’s Daring Plan to Let Fans Design the Phone
In his quest to build a better phone, Lei Jun visited hardware manufacturers from around the world. At Nokia, the head of R&D agreed with many of ideas, but had no ability to implement them. In...
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