Chinese marketplace Archives

Mobile commerce and games are the new target of Renren

09/19/201209/19/2012 Jennifer Goula

No longer taking aim at becoming the Chinese Facebook, the company now has a new focus. Renren Inc., which had originally drawn the attention of the world as it attempted to become the lead social network in China, is now turning its attention toward mobile commerce and mobile games in order to remain relevant and profitable. Even without Facebook’s competition in China, the company still faced several roadblocks. As the top social network in the world is not accessible in China, Renren didn’t suffer with competition from that company, but…

China Unicom and China Mobile announce their support for NFC technology

11/17/201111/17/2011 Jorge Gonzalez

China Mobile commerce ticketing payments

Two of the largest mobile operators in their country, China Unicom and China Mobile, have announced their intentions to bring near field communication (NFC) technology on a subscriber identity module (SIM) card foundation to their customers. The GSM Association, which has made NFC standardization worldwide one of its primary goals, made the first announcement of the intentions of the two mobile operators in China to support NFC technology. These two leading businesses in the Chinese marketplace are adding their names to 43 other mobile operators worldwide who have also declared…

Rovio partners with Madhouse for greater migration of Angry Birds

08/02/2011 Jesse Collins

Maker of the tremendously popular mobile game Angry Birds, Rovio, has recently announced that it will be partnering with the Shanghai-based major ad network, Madhouse, in order to bring the app to China. This is the next step in Helsinki-based Rovio’s goal to achieve one billion downloads for the game. So far, the game has been downloaded over 300 million times. The move to China will also help the company to reduce its concern over the pirating of the app in that country. The announcement of the partnership was made…