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Tracey Xiang

Tracey Xiang is Beijing, China-based tech writer. Reach her at tracey@technode.com

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Xiaomi and Shunwei Invest US$300M in Baidu’s Video Site iQiyi(아이치이)

Xiaomi, the Chinese smart device and internet service company, and Shunwei, a China-focused venture capital fund with Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun as founding partner and ...

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Tencent and LINE Pour US$100M into Korean Game Designer 4:33 Creative Lab(네시삼십삼분)

Tencent and LINE Group have jointly invested KRW1,3oo billion (around US$100m) into 4:33 Creative Lab, a leading game designer in South Korea, as beSUCCESS first noted. ...

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Momo Files for US IPO to Raise US$300M

Momo, the Chinese location and interest-based social app, has filed for IPO to raise US$300 million. The Momo IPO will, like many Chinese tech stocks, be in ...

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China’s Rural E-commerce Market to Reach US$29bn by 2014

AliResearch, the research arm of Alibaba Group, has released a new report on rural e-commerce in China. In 2013, online purchases on Taobao accounted for ...

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Xiaomi Invests US$25M in Andon’s iHealth for 20% Stake

Andon, or Jiuan in Chinese, the Chinese healthcare electronics manufacturer, announced to spin off the division for iHeath, the healthcare appcessory brand, and introduce US$25 million ...

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Financial Social Media Snowball Raises US$40M in Series C Funding Led by Renren

Snowball Finance (Xueqiu in Chinese), the Chinese financial social media, announced that the company has raised US$40 million in Series C funding led by Renren Inc. ...

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China’s Online Black Market — Part IV: Digital Lottery Tickets

At the end of 2012, Chinese Ministry of Finance (MOF) issued a regulation that officially allows for selling lottery tickets online. So far no private ...

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China’s Online Black Market — Part III: Underground Android App Distribution

Now everyone knows there’re dozens of Android stores in China and the biggest stores are run by Tencent, Baidu, Qihoo, Xiaomi and Wandoujia. And promoting ...

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Alibaba and Department Store Chain Yintai Partnering to Test iBeacon

Taodiandian, the restaurant & food app of Alibaba Group, is testing Apple’s iBeacon location-aware technology in one store of Yintai, a Chinese department store chain, ...

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Baidu Launches a Pair of Smart Chopsticks

The idea of smart chopsticks sounds creative, so creative that it’s hard to imagine a company as boring as Baidu would come up with. The ...

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Chinese Online Video Service Baofeng Launches a 16 Dollar VR Headset

Baofeng, the Chinese video player developer and online video provider, launched today a virtual reality (VR) headset, named Magic Glasses (not official translation). The company ...

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WiFi Dongle: The Best-selling Gadget in China Since The Hardware Revolution Began

The new hardware revolution has started for a while. Makers have encountered problems in industrial design or software development, and experienced electronics manufacturers, incubators, venture ...

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China’s Online Black Market — Part II: Paid Search Ads on Baidu

Baidu has been the dominant search engine in China. Unlike on Google the keywords with the highest costs per click, or CPC, are about industries such as finance, ...

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China’s Online Black Market — Part I: QQ IM Credentials

Like on the rest of the world, in China some users’ online credentials and data are either used without their permission by some Internet companies ...

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Weibo Has Become Another Sina?

I was surprised when I came across a pop-up bar featuring a piece of news at the bottom of my Weibo homepage the other day. ...

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The Most Popular Chinese Input Software Sogou Sees The Next Opportunity in Hardware

Sogou, the Chinese software developer under Sohu, turned ten earlier this month. Sogou was a search engine when it launched ten years ago, but would become ...

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[TechCrunch Beijing 2014] Leap Motion CEO Announces Big Plans for China Market

Michael Buckwald, co-founder and CEO of Leap Motion, announced today partnership with Digital China which will be the exclusive distributor for the hand & figure ...

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Online Education Craze in China Lures Increasingly More VC Money

In the first half of 2013 there was a wave of investments in online education sector. Since the beginning of this year we’ve seen even more VC ...

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US-based Wish to Bring Chinese Online Retailers Reach More Targeted Overseas Audience on Mobile

It seems Wish can bring Chinese online retailers selling made-in-China goods overseas to the next level. Wish is a mobile shopping app that shows personalized items based ...

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WeChat Has Had 396M Monthly Active Users and 5.8M Public Accounts

WeChat monthly active users reached 396 million in more than 200 countries and regions as of this month (July 2014), WeChat disclosed yesterday at an event. ...

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Alibaba, Who Said They’d Never Tap into Gaming, Now Gets into It in a Big Way

Alibaba has announced US$120 million investment in U.S. game developer Kabam. While many would count it as part of its foray into the U.S., what’s surprising to ...

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Chinese Taxi Apps Enter Uber’s Non-taxi Turf

The land-grabbing race in the newly emerged taxi app market in China finished much faster than that in group-buying. It was accelerated by the huge ...

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Xiaomi Launches Fourth-gen Flagship Android Phone and Fitness Band

Since its first flagship model was launched in August 2011, a total of over 57.36 million Xiaomi phones have been shipped as of today (The ...

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Productivity Apps among the Biggest Chinese Ad Spenders in Overseas Markets

AppFlood, a global mobile advertising service with roots in China, found the biggest Chinese mobile ad spenders with it in Q2 2014, AppFlood found, are ...