Posted on 08 May 2013.
Connie Chan loves Pinterest. “I bought something the first day I used it,” she said after testing the product, “I thought that other people would, too. I really love it, my friends love it.” What makes Chan different than most Pinterest users is that she’s a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, one the tech world’s best well-known venture capital firms….
Posted on 08 May 2013.
GMIC Beijing has come to an end as Day 2 has wrapped up at the National Convention Center. Groundbreaking announcements from Jolla, Mozilla and Ubuntu regarding the launch of their new smartphones have given us a glimpse into the future. Key insights from the biggest names in the automobile industry have shown us the growth…
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Posted on 08 May 2013.
Ford Motor Company is calling on all app developers to help improve their in-car driving experience, Kumar Galhotra, the company’s V.P. of Asia Pacific told the audience at the 2013 GMIC Beijing. “(mobile internet) is an industry we seem to have more in common with every day,” Galhotra said. “It’s experiencing incredible growth, like the…
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Posted on 08 May 2013.
Have you seen Fruit Ninja branded watermelons for sale in China? News to Phil Larson if you have–they’re not being offered. But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen–one day. Fruit-themed merchandizing wasn’t the only thing on topic when Phil Larson, CMO of Halfbrick, and Christopher Kassulke, CEO of HandyGames, came to the GMIC main stage…
Posted on 07 May 2013.
Evernote CEO Phil Libin has a lot to celebrate in Beijing this week. First things first: Evernote China, or Yinxiang Biji, turned one year old. That’s one year from Evernote China’s launch from last year’s GMIC (Libin tweeted Happy Birthday greetings to the China team on May 5). And, the more headline worthy announcement: Evernote Business (Yinxiang Biji…
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Posted on 07 May 2013.
From the official launch of Evernote Business in China to Shaquille O’Neal’s video demo of his new mobile game, it’s a wrap here on Day 1 of GMIC Beijing. Check out the media reports from today: Evernote, Now With 4M Users In China, Aims For Enterprises With Yinxiang Biji Business (TechCrunch) Evernote launches its business…
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Posted on 07 May 2013.
Sanjay Poonen, President of SAP AG, joined Zhang Hongjiang, CEO of Kingsoft, on the GMIC Beijing stage to discuss the space of big data and cloud and its place within the mobile industry. While there are big opportunities with this trend, there are also tremendous obstacles to the integration of both worlds. In particular, panel…
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Posted on 24 January 2013.
In the midst of Verizon’s announcement of another impressive quarter, Apple has also released its first 2013 quarterly earnings today. Apple’s revenue totaled $54.5 billion with $13.1 billion in profit, or $13.81 per share. In comparison with Apple’s earnings of $46.3 billion 14 weeks ago, this quarter makes it Apple’s highest quarterly revenue ever. Additionally,…
Posted on 16 January 2013.
In a bid to change the public image of a nation that has until recently been considered a pariah, Myanmar is making a significant push to improve its status in the investment community, announcing today a tender for two national telecom licenses that will end in June. With a penetration rate of less than 9%…
Posted on 21 December 2012.
Ruslan Kogan, Australia’s youngest billionaire and entrepreneur who has built an empire through online electronics sales and a keynote speaker at GMIC 2012 last year, is now taking a huge bite out of Australia’s mobile market with a new prepaid service sporting highly competitive deals for mobile plans. According to reports, Kogan’s website is now…
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