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4 ways to scale your app organically to a million users in just four weeks
Photo credit: sozialhelden . I first wrote about video chat app Rounds in September, noting that it’s fairly frictionless and comes with a bunch of great features. The fact that most of its 22 million...
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China’s tech startups suck at storytelling. This startup wants to fix it.
“Technology companies in China, particularly startups, have no idea how to talk about the cool, magical parts of what they do.” That was the first thing Jim Fields said to me when I spoke with him...
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China’s top web celeb finds a new way of monetizing videos: ecommerce
Even if you’re not a Chinese web user, you may have heard of Papi Jiang. She’s the internet video humorist who raised VC funding for her act, then got harshly censored by the government. That didn’t...
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He left university to get a real education in Silicon Valley
Hash Lyve co-founder Takashi Fuke. Takashi Fuke was a diligent and hardworking student. He aced his first year exams at university and was looking forward to his next challenge – but was shocked when...
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Netflix and China’s LeEco are working on a deal, and it sounds really weird
CEO Reed Hastings onstage at CES 2016. Photo credit: Netflix. UPDATE 8/10: The Information is reporting that Netflix has denied being in negotiations with LeEco. We’ll update further once this mess has...
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7 growth hacks to make social media work for your startup
Photo credit: Wikimedia. If content is king, viral content is definitely the emperor. Everyone’s striving to crack the secret code, and despite some awkward winners, the jury agrees that it’s one of...
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Vine is dead. But China’s answer to it is still growing with $500m funding.
One year after pocketing US$200 million to hit a billion-dollar valuation, the startup behind China’s answer to Vine has swiped US$500 million, said its CEO today. Han Kun, who runs the team behind...
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How a Chinese startup won the hearts of American teens
Doin’ the dab. Photo credit: Gokudabbing. Teenagers are mysterious. Beyond rare reports from the field and the occasional inside source (read: younger siblings), not much is known about their culture....
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Amazon Prime Video goes live in India. Watch out Netflix, Flipkart
Jeff Bezos must be pleased as punch. Photo credit: Steve Jurvetson. Amazon Prime Video has gone live in India, ahead of a launch event in Mumbai later this evening. The app can be downloaded from...
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Digital media startup for Indian millennials raises $3 million led by Sequoia
Entertainment has changed over the years. Performers at Cirque du Soleil’s show ‘Quidam’. Photo credit: ververidis / 123RF. Mumbai-based Pocket Aces, a digital entertainment company aimed at the Indian...
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The Y Combinator video startup that accidentally nabbed success in Japan
Photo credit: Victor Bezrukov. There are plenty of stories about entrepreneurs from North America or Europe targeting – or “pivoting” to – Asian markets. For Michael Litt, co-founder and CEO of...
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Amazon Prime Video’s UX is pretty bad
After what proved to be a weirdly long wait, Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service finally went global last week. Previously, it had only been available in a few countries (very few in Asia), but now...
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‘Start small, start scrappy’: a Y Combinator startup founder’s tips on making...
Photo credit: blueferret21. I used to check my Facebook first thing in the morning when I woke up – a quick scan of my notifications and my newsfeed gave me just enough time to wake up a little bit...
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14 years ago, he started a newspaper. Now, he’s making one-minute news videos
Photo credit: gmast3r / 123RF. Qiu Bing is an old-school reporter. He’s been in the industry for more than 20 years and still insists on reading paper copies of The Global Times and Southern Weekly,...
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Google launches a new app for the next billion – YouTube Go with offline videos
Photo credit: Tech in Asia. India is the world’s fastest growing smartphone market. But hundreds of millions in India, especially in tier-2 and tier-3 cities, have poor connectivity to the internet and...
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InMobi becomes India’s second unicorn to hit profitability. Here’s what worked.
Naveen Tiwari, co-founder and CEO of InMobi. Photo credit: InMobi. Those of us with eyes glued to India’s tumultuous startup field have been used to hearing bad news from India’s unicorns for some time...
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Brief: Facebook recruits Buzzfeed, Vox, and others for original video content
Photo credit: Viktor Hanacek. The news: Facebook has signed deals with several online-based news and entertainment providers that are largely aimed at the “millennial” demographic. They’ll produce...
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Brief: Netflix foreign subscriptions have overtaken US for the first time
Photo credit: Tech in Asia. The news: Netflix has just reported its best-ever quarter in terms of subscriptions, signing up 5.2 million new viewers in the three months ending June. This is...
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Brief: Facebook unveils Watch, its new video content service
Photo credit: kesu87 / 123RF Stock Photo. The news (extracted from The Verge): Facebook said today that Watch, its redesigned video platform, will begin rolling out to a small percentage of users...
View ArticleVideo: This robot, made in India, will soon be crawling on the moon
Ever tried landing a remote-controlled helicopter without crashing it? Now imagine landing a rover to crawl on the moon. It’s no longer just Elon Musk and Richard Branson with visions of being space...
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Baidu’s iQIYI wants to become China’s Disney, but it’s up against tough rivals
Acres of land in Shanghai was turned into a shooting base for iQIYI’s new hip-hop show / Image credit: iQIYI US-based streaming services Netflix and Amazon are doubling down on original content to...
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Go-Jek ventures into video streaming, partners with Vice on original content
Photo credit: hendrikjan1958 / 123RF Go-Jek is adding yet another string to its many-stringed bow. Speaking at the Asia-Pacific Video Operators’ Summit in Badung yesterday, Michy Gustavia, the...
View ArticlePinduoduo just raised a $1.6b IPO: Here’s how the Chinese shopping app works
In this video, GGV Capital explained PDD's product flow.
View ArticleThis crazy way people watch videos in China is a whole subculture on its own
In this video by Goldthread, the publication explored the internet subculture of watching videos with text flying across the screen.
View ArticleWhy the Chinese internet is obsessed with 666 (and it has nothing to do with...
The Chinese internet loves 666, slang that became popular online and then a phenomenon offline too.
View ArticleWhy does Xiaomi limit its profits to 5 percent?
How the 5% profits prove that Xiaomi is an internet business, not a phone business.
View ArticleBing isn’t a failure. It’s the future of the internet.
While Bing is laughed at, it’s actually a profitable product, which demonstrates the power of the control tech companies can have
View ArticleY Combinator president Sam Altman’s guide to succeeding at your startup
"Hire a few 'idea generators' who churn out lots of new ideas."
View ArticleHow big is SoftBank?
With an annual revenue of over $82 billion, SoftBank Group Corp. (SFTBF) is currently the 72nd largest company in the world, by revenue.
View ArticleWhy startups are leaving Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley has been where you go if you want to make it big in technology but these days entrepreneurs are starting to look elsewhere.
View ArticleHow KaiOS is becoming the third major mobile OS
Google has just invested $22 million into an operating system called KaiOS. Can it become the 3rd major mobile platform?
View ArticleHow to get in and thrive at Y Combinator, according to the head of admissions
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View ArticleVideo: Thailand 4.0 – The digital transformation of Thailand
Thailand is at an inflection point in its economic development, pivoting towards digital transformation under its Thailand 4.0 initiative.
View ArticleChinese short-video apps want to make us shop
Kuaishou became famous for users that eat lightbulbs; now it wants to help those users sell stuff too.
View ArticleHow Facebook’s new short-video app Lasso compares to TikTok
Social network copies viral short video app to win back teens - but will it work?
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