ZTE, JD Form Strategic Partnership For Marketing

ZTE and JD Group announced the signing of a strategic cooperation agreement in New York under which the two parties …

China Still World’s Largest Gaming Market With USD24.6 Billion Operating Revenue

In 2016, the world’s computer game operating revenue exceeded USD100 billion for the first time and China exceeded America to …

Tencent Music Becomes Exclusive Distributor Of Universal Music In Mainland China

Tencent Music Entertainment Group and Universal Music Group signed a deal under which Tencent Music will become Universal Music’s exclusive …

China’s Gaming Market Scale To Reach USD26 Billion In 2017

The Chinese gaming market scale will reach USD26 billion by the end of 2017 and mobile games will continue to …

Snapchat Sets Up Office In Shenzhen

Snapchat’s parent company Snap Inc. has reportedly built a research and development team in mainland China. Though users are not …

Me Too! Simtoo Gains Drone Funding In China From Renren

Simtoo droneSimtoo, a Shenzhen-based drone manufacturer, has reportedly closed a RMB72 million funding round. Chinese social networking company Renren Inc co-led …

Sony To Sell PlayStation VR In Hong Kong, Taiwan In October

PlayStation VRJapanese electronics company Sony announced that they will start selling their virtual reality head-mounted display product PlayStation VR in Hong …

CNY2 Billion Deal Amps Up Chinese Smartphone’s Appeal

LeTV phoneChinese mobile phone retail channel provider D.Phone and Letv have reached a strategic deal with total value of CNY2 billion. …

Nothing Virtual For Iqiyi’s Latest VR Product

Iqiyi IVRChinese Internet video provider Iqiyi announced the launch of its virtual reality product set named iVR+. The company also launched …

Apple’s iPhone SE Receives Over 3.4 Million Orders In China

iPhone SEApple’s new 4-inch smartphone iPhone SE had received over 3.4 million orders in the Chinese market. According to statistics provided …

Lenovo Begins Major Business Reshuffle Next Week

LenovoIt probably hurts to be a manager at Lenovo today. Nearly all of the company’s business groups face upheaval in …

Aston Martin Signs Chinese Internet Of Vehicles Deal

Aston MartinChina’s Letv and the luxury British sports car manufacturer Aston Martin signed an electric car joint venture MOU in Frankfurt, …

Chinese Mobile Phone Users Sent 699.2 Billion Texts Last Year

Messaging ChinaChinese mobile phone users sent out a total of 699.2 billion short messages in 2015, according to statistics from the …

Suning Appoints New CEO (Yet Again) For PPTV

PPTV’s employees have received an appointment notice stating that Mi Xin will become new president and chief executive officer of PPTV, according to an insider from the company. Since being acquired by Suning in 2013, PPTV’s CEO has changed three times. The notice included three appointments. Fan Zhijun was appointed chairman of management committee of […]

Alibaba Continues Testing Streaming Video Service

Alibaba has started testing its streaming video service named Tmall Box Office, which is a Netflix-style subscription video service. The monthly subscription for the service costs CNY39 and the annual subscription is CNY365. Alibaba revealed in June 2015 that the company would launch an online streaming video service which will include Chinese and foreign movies […]

Tmall.com Teams With Oil Giant For Mobile Payments

Chinese B2C e-commerce platform Tmall.com and China National Petroleum Corporation’s Hunan branch will integrate their resources to launch a mobile payment service model. Tmall.com, which is a subsidiary of Alibaba, said that the company will integrate Alibaba’s ecosphere to help CNPC Hunan implement an “Internet Plus” transformation that includes an online store, mobile payment, big […]

Coolpad Appoints Letv’s Chief As Executive Director

Chinese smartphone maker Coolpad has appointed Jia Yueting, chairman and general manager of Letv.com, and Liu Hongwei, vice chairman and deputy general manager of Letv.com, as executive directors, effective immediately. According to the company, Jia and Liu signed three-year service contracts with Coolpad, starting from August 17, 2015. Both of them will receive CNY1 million […]

Hong Kong Mobile OS Company Aims To Beat Android, Apple

The freshly-minted Hong Kong-based mobile operating system company Acadine Technologies is hoping to make room for itself among the ubiquitous of Android and iOS devices. The company says it received USD100 million in its first round financing from China-based Tsinghua Unigroup International. Acadine is so new, that only yesterday, July 15, did it register and […]

Is China Mobile Now Competing With Whatsapp And Wechat?

Chinese information technology solutions provider Ultrapower’s wholly-owned subsidiary is helping China’s biggest mobile provider compete with instant messaging apps like Facebook’s Whatsapp, Tencent’s Wechat, and Apple’s iMessage.

Nokia Here To Provide Overseas Map Data For Baidu

Chinese search engine company Baidu recently reached an agreement with Nokia to provide map services to Chinese users outside China as Baidu aims to develop international businesses through mobile services.

Xbox One Starts China Sales Via JD.com’s Social Media Channels

With a newly-minted IPO under its belt, Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com Inc. announced today that is now taking pre-orders for Microsoft’s Xbox One gaming console. As part of an agreement between the companies, JD.com will have the exclusive right to accept pre-orders for Xbox One in China from July 28-30, 2014, through JD.com’s Mobile QQ […]

Letv.com Establishes New Beijing Company For Mobile Phone Development

According to data from the Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce, Letv has registered a new company named Letv Mobile Smart Information Technology (Beijing) Company Limited, with registered capital of CNY20 million. The business scope of this new company covers production and development of mobile phones and sales of communications devices, electronic products, mechanical equipment, […]

Youku Tudou Reaches Smart TV Content Deal With Haier

Chinese Internet video group Youku Tudou will provide video software services to smart TVs made by Haier. This is Youku Tudou’s latest strategic cooperation with smart TV makers following its partnership with Shenzhen Coship Electronics formed at the end of 2013. With these moves, Youku Tudou Group intends to seize the opportunities in family TV […]

JD.com Goes Social With Mobile Instant Messaging App

Chinese B2C e-commerce website JD.com announced the launch of its free instant messaging product “Jingdong Dongdong” for individual users. This product is mainly used for communications between individual users. It also has a customer service consulting function. JD.com previously released the PC beta version of this product and the one launched this time is an […]

Is China’s Ban On Gaming Consoles Finally Lifting?

China’s BesTV says it will team with Microsoft to invest USD79 million in the establishment of a joint venture named Shanghai Baijiahe Information Technology Development Company Limited for the creation of China-made gaming consoles. With USD40.29 million cash investment, BesTV will hold a 51% stake in the joint venture; while Microsoft, with USD38.71 million cash […]