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Only 8.5% Of Internet Usage Comes Via Mobile

When you read the headlines of how ubiquitous smartphones are becoming, and how in some countries the mobile device is overtaking the PC in terms of internet access, you would think that mobile internet usage would directly follow from these facts. In reality, it seems that it still lagging behind: according to some figures out...

$800 Million Chinese Fund to Back Film Projects

Sun Media Group is joining Harvest Fund Management to create Harvest Seven Stars Media Private Equity, which will back entertainment ventures in China and abroad.

Poll: What Do You Think About Apple’s Success?

The numbers are staggering. Apple Inc. is now the most valuable company in the U.S. The company made more than $13 billion in profit last quarter, more than Google made in revenues. According to TUAW, the iPhone by itself, in three months,...

Mediatwits #35: Apple’s Boffo Earnings; Get More Clicks Per Tweet; NYC vs. Silicon Valley

Welcome to the 35th episode of "The Mediatwits," the weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift's Mark Glaser and Dorian Benkoil, who is filling in for Rafat Ali. Once again, Apple dominates the headlines, this time ...

Nokia Q4: Scrambling For A Grip, But Still Falling; 1M+ Lumia Phones Sold

Nokia’s Q4 earnings, released on Thursday, make for some challenging reading for even the most hopeful of Nokia (NYSE: NOK) watchers. The handset maker confirmed analyst estimates that it has sold over a million Lumia Windows Phone handsets - but that didn’t stop a horrible 31 percent slide in its...

Chinese Soldiers Interpret 2012 Election Through Performance Art…With Live Grenades

A viral video featuring six Chinese soldiers playing "pass the grenade" is burning up the YouTubes, mainly because the grenade they're passing around is, according to the video's title, a live one. The soldiers pass some kind of smoking object around, then toss it into a pit, and hit the deck as something explodes. I...

Digital Opportunity And Creativity In China’s Year Of The Dragon

Monday marks China’s new year. The dragon, whose year it is this year, is the only mythical creature in the calendar but, as Europe’s digital commissioner Neelie Kroes writes, also “is the innovative entrepreneur, intensely powerful yet flexible, and the bringer of great fortune”.

Unit of Chinese Daily Plans I.P.O.

The online division of the People’s Daily will sell as much as $85 million in stock to compete with private media in China, as well as emulate global giants like CNN and News Corporation.

China’s upcoming connected TV revolution

China's online video service PPTV struck a strategic partnership deal with local cable TV provider WASU last week that could hold the key to finally bring online video to the living room in China. Android TVs and set-top boxes could also play a big role.

Updated: Apple Gets Egged In Beijing, Halts iPhone 4S Sales In Its Stores

We know that consumers in China love Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) products, and that Apple is famous for the lines that form outside its stores in advance of the launch of a new product. But things got a little out of hand earlier today in Beijing, as a mob of people waiting...

China’s State Media Plan IPOs For Their Online Operations

Communism and capitalism are now apparently the same thing in Chinese online media. The People’s Daily newspaper, an organ of the country’s ruling Communist Party, has filed to float its People’s Daily Online website in Shanghai to raise 527 million yuan ($83.4 million).

Can Investors Still Win Big On China’s Google Or Facebook? Probably Not

Investors who missed out on the biggest gains from U.S. innovations – internet search engines, online job listings and cell phone popularity, for example – have traditionally found fantastic consolation prizes in the shares of companies that do similar work, later, in Asia. But can investing in a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) (GOOG)...