The chief of one of the publishers with most magazines on iPad wants to make more of them interactive and start licensing his production tools to rivals, after selling half a million Newsstand titles in six months.…
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People’s Daily Online shares suspended after excessive trading
We knew that shares in People’s Daily Online (SHA:603000), China’s government-backed news website, were hot, but apparently they’re a little too hot to handle.…
Read MoreDigital reading beginning to take Chinese mindshare
The newspaper industry frequently thanks emerging markets growth for the surprising quirk of global print circulation growth. But now emerging markets, too, are becoming advanced online media markets.…
Read MoreChina video wars: rivals unite to gobble growth
As China's two online video leaders merge to improve their position in the fast-growing field, three of their rivals are teaming up to fight back.…
Read MoreChina’s Got Talent – Youku powers the people’s pop hopes
China's YouTube strikes a deal with broadcasters to power a western-style singing contest, as it merges with rival Tudou in a $1 billion deal.…
Read MoreDid Sina just introduce — and then kill — an anonymous news reporting platform?
The curious case of the missing citizen news site. Where is the new service that China's Twitter-beating microblog operator launched to give news organisations anonymous tips?…
Read MoreAmazon reportedly making progress with Japanese publishers
Six months after first reports emerged Amazon was negotiating to take e-books Japan, it has reportedly struck its first such deal.…
Read MoreChina’s communist state news website aims for $245 million IPO raise
China's Communist Party is doing a good impression of a Silicon Valley news startup, as it floats its official newspaper's web operation to finance catching up commercial services.…
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The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that the Sparx Group, one of Asia’s largest hedge funds, plans to launch a fund…
Read MoreChinese Android Apps Are Bypassing Google’s Play Store
A mobile platform is only as strong as its app line-up, which in turn relies on the co-operation and keenness of app developers. But lookin……
Read MoreBaidu Takes Aim At Dropbox, Microsoft SkyDrive, With Cloud Storage Service
Chinese search engine leader Baidu is holding a developers conference today, from where it has just launched a cloud storage platform called……
Read MoreChinese Theatrical Market Booms, But Real Action May Be In Video On Demand
The Motion Picture Association of America released statistics today saying that Chinese theatrical revenue grew 35 percent to nearly $2 bill……
Read MoreChinese Writers' Apple Book Piracy Claims Grow Louder
Twenty-two Chinese authors now plan to sue Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) for 50 million yuan ($7.9 million), claiming 95 of their books were published……
Read MoreOne year later: Fukushima and the Japan cleantech opportunity
The one-year anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, which claimed the lives of 19,000 and left another 325,000 without permanent housing, was observed on Sunday. In the wake of the disaster, Japan has reassessed its energy policy, and there’s now a massive cleantech opportunity in the country to create safe and renewable sources of energy fed into a reliable grid infrastructure.…
Read MoreYouku And Tudou Merge To Create Chinese Online Video Powerhouse
After threatening to sue each other for copyright infringement in December, the largest players in China's fast-growing online video market……
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As next Saturday’s first anniversary of Japan’s Fukushima disaster approaches, the National Renewable Defense Council has built a graphic that maps weather…
Read MoreToday in Connected Consumer
Today is the day Google’s new privacy policy, in which personal data on users will be shared across all the company’s services,…
Read MoreYahoo Has No Bearing On Alibaba.com Privatisation, E-commerce Site Says
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group's main business unit aims to delist from the Hong Kong stock market - but says the move is unrelated……
Read MoreOnline Game Developer Shanda Gets $2.3 Billion Buy-Out
Shareholders in big Chinese online game developer Shanda Interactive Entertainment (NSDQ: SNDA) have voted in favour of a proposal by which……
Read MoreAmazon Kindle To Japan And Brazil This Year?
Kindle may launch in Japan and Brazil in 2012, according to reports published in the last week.…
Read MoreOne Chinese City Raids An Apple Reseller In Growing iPad Trademark Row
Government officials in the city of Shijiazhuang raided an unnamed Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) reseller (not an official brand store) over the weeken……
Read MoreNokia’s Mexico, Hungary, Finland Phone Assembly Goes To Asia; 4,000 Jobs Go
Today brings news of yet another round of capital-intensive cost-cutting for the challenged mobile phone maker Nokia: the company today anno……
Read MoreNokia factories shift to Asia: Did it have any choice?
Embattled Nokia is hoping it can become faster and more competitive by shifting the heart of its manufacturing operations to Asia, a move which will see 4,000 jobs cut in Finland, Hungary and Mexico but will be seen as long overdue.…
Read MoreChinese Ad Money Moving Quickly From Print To Web
Marketers in China are fast moving advertising spend from offline to internet, one of the country's largest online operators, Sohu (NSDQ: SO……
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