Ingrid Lunden
Nov 22, 2011 5:54 AM
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 into the country. Now here’s an example of a Chinese giant looking shop its own mobile services abroad: the internet portal Tencent is now distributing its QQ…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 18, 2011 5:51 AM
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 that even more: the company is now accepting payments in Chinese Yuan on its App Store.
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 14, 2011 6:09 PM
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 has ignored the issue of mobile payments, or decided to leave it entirely to third parties like Square to use its devices to…
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Ingrid Lunden
Sep 2, 2011 5:14 AM
Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU), the search-portal provider and “Google (NSDQ: GOOG) of China,” has made a key move into the world of mobile today: it is launching its own app store, to be called “Baidu Yi,” which will be available on Google’s Android OS. The move comes after months of speculation…
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Tom Krazit
Jul 28, 2011 1:45 PM
It’s hard to imagine that the world needs another mobile operating system, but it may be exactly what China needs. Alibaba’s mobile group is preparing a Web-based mobile operating system for phones and tablets that could give the world’s largest mobile market a homegrown alternative to operating systems designed in…
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Tom Krazit
Jul 28, 2011 10:45 AM
Here’s a look at some of the top stories today in mobile:
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 5, 2011 6:02 AM
A look at some of the big news in mobile today: —iPhone 5: Yet more details on what looks to be an iPhone 5 launch in the autumn. Taiwan notebook manufacturer Pegatron is thought to have received an order for 15 million iPhone 5s for shipment in September. A few…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jun 3, 2009 1:43 AM
Most companies in the digital space are laying low when it comes to M&A these days but China’s Alibaba Group says it plans to spend at least $200 million on acquisitions over the next few years. Wei Zhang, who heads the e-commerce company’s strategic investment unit, told the WSJ Alibaba…
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