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Finally, QQ for Mac Gets Cross-Platform Video Chat
Tencent today updated their QQ Mac app with video chat support, dropping the Beta label as they push out version 1.1. The app is still slight, compared with the multi-faceted Windows app, which comes...
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iOS 5 Adds Support for Popular Chinese Email Services
The upcoming iOS 5, for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, looks set to be more accessible for Chinese users, with support for three popular Chinese email services: Tencent’s QQ Mail, and Netease’s 163.com...
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Tencent Co-Founder Detained Over China Mobile Corruption Case?
Jason Zeng, the billionaire co-founder of China’s internet giant Tencent – and now a major shareholder in the recently IPO’d Taomee.com (NYSE:TAOM) – has reportedly been arrested and taken away for...
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China: 485M On Internet, 195M On Microblogs, 900M On Mobile
New stats reveal that in China the number of Internet users has hit 485 million, very much spurred on by the popularity of microblogging in the country. Yes, out of all these Chinese Internet users,...
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QQ for Android Gives You Face, Launches Video Chat Support
Tencent has added video chat to the Android smartphone version of its ubiquitous QQ instant-messenger. The updated QQ for Android app – now at Beta 3 stage – leaps ahead of its iPhone and iPad variant...
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Tencent ‘Qrobot’ Will Try to Kill You (With its Cuteness)
Tencent, China’s biggest social media and IM platform, has launched a cute, talking, wiggling, voice-recognizing ‘Qrobot’ in the form of its well-known QQ penguin mascot. The voice-controlled,...
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Tencent Revamps WebQQ and Relaunches as Q+
Tencent’s (HKG:0700) QQ is the most widely used IM service in China. However only Windows users can enjoy the complete QQ experience – though the Mac version finally got video support this summer. In...
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After Death, QQ Numbers and Virtual Property are a Legal Grey Area
After death, a person’s online life – from QQ numbers to social media passwords and virtual currency – remains a legal grey area in China. And it’s an issue more people are encountering, as SNS become...
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5 Features in Mac OS 10.8 That Apple Has Added for Chinese Users
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has just released an early preview of its next version of Mac OS X, which will be called Mountain Lion. Along with a bunch of new features come several that are aimed exclusively...
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QQ Users in China Pay For a Fake ‘Sent From My iPhone’ Hack
File this one under ‘people are vain’ and ‘not great publicity for Android.’ Some users of Tencent’s (HKG:0700) social network and IM service, QQ, are paying one of several dubious hackers up to 8 RMB...
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QQ, China’s Top IM, Launches As a Facebook App
This is how QQ looks as a Facebook app. With 798 million monthly active users, Tencent’s (HKG:0700) QQ instant messenger is far and away China’s most-used social network. Some of its users are...
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Sina and Tencent investors unperturbed by crackdown on spreading rumors in China
In May, the Chinese government came down hard on Chinese web celebrities, launching a campaign to contain provocative news and rumors. Several found their accounts, some of which had more than a...
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Chinese New Year welcomed in with 13.6 billion messages in 1 day on China’s...
While everyone’s talking about WeChat, it’s easy to forget that Tencent makes another social network that’s even more popular. It’s called QQ. Today Tencent (HKG:0700) revealed that QQ’s users sent a...
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Finally, QQ for Mac Gets Cross-Platform Video Chat
Tencent today updated their QQ Mac app with video chat support, dropping the Beta label as they push out version 1.1. The app is still slight, compared with the multi-faceted Windows app, which comes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
iOS 5 Adds Support for Popular Chinese Email Services
The upcoming iOS 5, for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, looks set to be more accessible for Chinese users, with support for three popular Chinese email services: Tencent’s QQ Mail, and Netease’s 163.com...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tencent Co-Founder Detained Over China Mobile Corruption Case?
Jason Zeng, the billionaire co-founder of China’s internet giant Tencent – and now a major shareholder in the recently IPO’d Taomee.com (NYSE:TAOM) – has reportedly been arrested and taken away for...
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China: 485M On Internet, 195M On Microblogs, 900M On Mobile
New stats reveal that in China the number of Internet users has hit 485 million, very much spurred on by the popularity of microblogging in the country. Yes, out of all these Chinese Internet users,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
QQ for Android Gives You Face, Launches Video Chat Support
Tencent has added video chat to the Android smartphone version of its ubiquitous QQ instant-messenger. The updated QQ for Android app – now at Beta 3 stage – leaps ahead of its iPhone and iPad variant...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tencent ‘Qrobot’ Will Try to Kill You (With its Cuteness)
Tencent, China’s biggest social media and IM platform, has launched a cute, talking, wiggling, voice-recognizing ‘Qrobot’ in the form of its well-known QQ penguin mascot. The voice-controlled,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tencent Revamps WebQQ and Relaunches as Q+
Tencent’s (HKG:0700) QQ is the most widely used IM service in China. However only Windows users can enjoy the complete QQ experience – though the Mac version finally got video support this summer. In...
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