Instagram, a photo and video sharing application acquired by Facebook, appears to be no longer available for download in China’s third-party Android app stores, Ming Pao Daily reported. Users searchin ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-10
Rumors are swirling that US e-commerce giant Amazon will unveil its very first smartphone on Wednesday, and that it will be loaded with sophisticated functions such as motion sensors and a 3D interfac ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-18
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is acquiring all the remaining shares of mobile browser firm UCWeb in what it describes as the biggest merger in Chinese internet history, Reuters reported Wednesday. Althou ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-11
Is a bubble brewing in China's mobile internet sector? That is the question many industry observers are asking after Toutiao (or 'Today's Headlines'), a personalized news app that was launched barely ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-06
Jeff Bezos drew a few doubters when he announced the next big thing for Amazon: drones. It was not enough that the founder of the world's largest online retailer had shown up his critics by making a s ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-28
At 30, Mark Zuckerberg may feel he's getting old. He's still one of the world's youngest billionaires, and his company, Facebook, holds the undisputed title of the world's largest social networking si ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-20
Tencent Holdings (00700.HK) has watched its QQ instant messaging service take a back seat to its hugely popular younger sibling, WeChat. But the lopsided attention they have been getting from the mark ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-16
China is expected to see a more family-friendly mobile app market following a recent crackdown on gambling-related content, China Daily reported Monday. As many as 27 mobile game publishing platforms ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-18
China Mobile (00941.HK), the nation’s biggest mobile operator by user base, is betting on its 4G rollout to regain share in the high-speed mobile broadband market. Using homegrown TD-LTE technology, t ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-29
Earlier this month, Chinese app distributor Wandoujia {豌豆莢} received a US$120 million funding from a group of investors led by Japan technology behemoth Softbank. The market immediately turned its foc ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-23
Internet behemoth Tencent (00700.HK) is a pioneer in many areas of the mobile internet era. Its mobile instant messenger WeChat and its mobile gaming platform are both champion products. However, when ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-21
Wandoujia, a leading Chinese Android app store backed by Taiwan IT venture capitalist Kai-fu Lee, secured another round of investment from a consortium led by Japan's Softbank Corp, Global Times repor ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-14
As the mobile gaming market gallops at a furious pace in China, attracting plenty of game developers as well as investors from across the world, authorities are scrambling to get a better handle on th ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-10
Foreigners will be allowed to own up to 55 percent of an e-commerce company in the Shanghai free trade zone, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in a statement on its website Mond ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-06
