The dramatic news last Wednesday that the $3 billion U.S. solar industry bellwether First Solar was exiting subsidy-dependent markets and instead shifting focus toward utilities was a sobering indicator of what the subsidy environment will look like in the next few years. First Solar’s new strategy ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
China’s two largest video-streaming sites, Tudou (NASDAQ:TUDO) and Youku (NYSE:YOKU), are heading for a legal battle after Tudou announced t… Read more at paidContent »
Though the e-book phenomenon is now taking off around the world, Chinese e-reader sales actually fell 5.1 percent, according to Analysys Int… Read more at paidContent »
Twitter’s slick new redesign has brought it – visually and practically – closer to China’s most dynamic microblogging platform, Sina’s (… Read more at paidContent »
Everyone knows that Nokia’s Symbian always had little take-up in the U.S.. But, once upon a time, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) could count on a large u… Read more at paidContent »
The Chinese e-commerce site Dangdang (NYSE:DANG) is set to follow in the footsteps of Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) (NASDAQ:AMZN) and its Kindle when… Read more at paidContent »
As our recent coverage of China’s proliferating app store segment has shown, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is not in full control of its own operating… Read more at paidContent »
Need another indicator for how mobile is exploding in China? Look to search…
Average daily searches this fall (Q3) hit 718 million, accor… Read more at paidContent »
The iPhone 4S is being hailed by pretty much every quarter as a success these days, including users, carriers and analysts. But Apple is also making gains in a less brightly lit area of smartphone sales: the world of gray market devices on prepaid contracts. Read more »
Apple’s iPad trademark is being challenged by Proview Technology, and the Shenzhen-based company is having some early success, with a court rejecting Apple’s claim that it already owns said trademark in China. Here’s a blow-by-blow of the story so far, and its likely conclusion. Read more »
Following on from its acquisition of mobile software developer SPB at the end of November, Yandex is making one more move to increase its ub… Read more at paidContent »
Earlier this year you may recall that everyone’s favorite iPad reading app Flipboard was blocked in China. But apparently the GFW ain’t no t… Read more at paidContent »
The Great Firewall of China is preventing local programmers from downloading the latest Node.js programming framework. The problem is that the version number corresponds to the June 4, 1989 government crackdown on Tiananmen Square demonstrators. Read more »
Another chapter in the ongoing consolidation of the tablet market — specifically in the area of those many Android vendors that have failed… Read more at paidContent »
A complaint accusing Chinese solar cell and module manufacturers of flooding the U.S. market with unfairly low-priced goods cleared a hurdle to move forward Friday with a 6-0 vote by the U.S. International Trade Commission. Read more »
China is hot. Mobile connections there just overtook those in the U.S. for the first time. Here is a glut of deals news today illustrating t… Read more at paidContent »
The iPhone 4S has made waves around the world, but it has yet to even enter the water in China, Apple’s second-most important market. We should see how it does there soon, however, as a launch is very close, according to a China Unicom exec. Read more »
New statistics showing the popularity of various free and paid iOS apps in China show the great importance of localization. And now that Chi… Read more at paidContent »
Tencent (HKG:0700), China’s social media giant, has been really good at building Android apps of late, but it has always lacked a coherent m… Read more at paidContent »
China’s internet market is growing fast. Search engine revenue grew 20.3 percent through Q3 to 5.38 billion yuan, according to Analysys. Read more at paidContent »
It’s no secret that the mobile market in China is big business: the country’s own officials reported last month that China is now approachin… Read more at paidContent »
So much hope has been pinned on Nokia’s comeback strategy — in which it has pivoted in the space of less than a year to develop a new line… Read more at paidContent »
Smartphone adoption may be high in the U.S. but overall smartphone sales are highest in China, with Nokia and Samsung leading the pack. Combine subsidies and numerous Android devices with an expected billion mobile connections and I’d say you’ve got the recipe for another smartphone revolution. Read more »
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has a substantial operation in China, but it has yet to take its Kindle e-reader into that market. That has left the doo… Read more at paidContent »
We’ve observed a lot of western companies looking to cash in on the explosive growth of China’s mobile population by taking their products i… Read more at paidContent »
China has become an increasingly important part of Apple’s empire, and today it looks like the company has taken one more step to growing th… Read more at paidContent »
Apple wants to make it easier for customers in its fastest-growing market to get their hands on software, which is why it started accepting Chinese yuan for App Store downloads on Friday. The change is designed to curtail piracy and grow Apple’s software ecosystem. Read more »
News aggregation app Flipboard has introduced new features to support its upcoming iPhone version, whilst also apparently preparing to re-la… Read more at paidContent »
Near-field communications (NFC) is far from being a standard in mobile payments, but the wave-and-pay technology may have gotten its biggest… Read more at paidContent »
Tencent (HKG:0700), China’s social media giant, has thumbed its nose at Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) (NASDAQ:AAPL) by releasing a desktop ‘App Assista… Read more at paidContent »
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has yet to give a line on where it sees NFC in its future product and service roadmaps, but that doesn’t mean the company… Read more at paidContent »
China’s Facebook-like social network Renren, which floated on Wall Street in May 2011, says over half of its users now access the service th… Read more at paidContent »
A new Morgan Stanley survey found that Apple is the most desirable brand of computer in China right now, beating out local heavyweight Lenovo. China became the biggest buyer of personal computers as of August, according to IDC, so that’s great news for Apple. Read more »
Two of China’s largest internet companies have reported contrasting Q3 financial fortunes – but each’s mobile fortunes have been hit by new… Read more at paidContent »
Kleiner Perkins’s $250 million China fund represents the logical next step in a migration of cleantech investment toward China, points out GigaOM Green IT analyst Adam Lesser. Here’s three reasons cleantech VC dollars are heading east. Read more »
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) could be adding one more OEM to its list of Android licensees, and this one is a biggie: Huawei, the ambitious Chines… Read more at paidContent »
