Jon Russell is the Asia Editor of The Next Web. Jon has been commenting on and writing about Asia's internet, technology and start-up scenes since he swapped London for Bangkok in 2008. You can reach him through Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Quora or by emailing jon@thenextweb.com.
Korean mobile messaging app Kakao Talk has introduced free voice calls to its WhatsApp-like service, allowing its worldwide iPhone and Android users to make calls on the service for nothing…
Apple is being tipped to introduce a much anticipated update that brings support for search services from China’s Baidu into iOS next month, according to Chinese reports that cite comment…
Samsung has revealed that it will introduce ‘pop-up’ mobile stores in London at the end of May, as it seeks to grab a share of increased consumer spending while the…
With more than half a million apps in the App Store, discovery is a huge challenge for iPhone users. Apple has long acknowledged the issue, having acquired Chomp to help improve…
China Telecom has launched a UK mobile service this week, just in time for the upcoming Olympic Games in London, and revealed plans to expand its operations to other key European…
Android and Apple’s iOS continue to dominate the global smartphone industry, according to new data from research firm IDC, which concludes that the two platforms combined accounted for 82 percent of…
Sony and Sharp have announced that their joint venture to develop large LCD panels is to end, with Sony getting back its full $125.79 million investment in the Sharp Display…
The Chinese government has confirmed that the country now has more than 1 billion mobile phone users, after revealing that the first quarter of the year saw an additional 43 million…
Yahoo has confirmed that it has disabled the Google Chrome extension for its new Axis browser, after security concerns were raised by a developer who was able to forge the…
Just when he thought his week couldn’t get much better — what could top pioneering private space travel? — Elon Musk, the serial entrepreneur behind SpaceX, got a call from…
So Yahoo went ahead and launched its mobile browser ‘Axis’, just days after we broke news that Chrome had just overtaken Internet Explorer as the Web’s most popular option. While…
International-focused TV and video site Viki has made a significant move into the music space, after it announced deals with a number of record labels and agencies, most notably Warner Music,…
The latest in Apple’s series of TV commercials promoting the iPhone 4S Siri through celebrity users sees actor John Malkovich take to the small screen with the device and Apple’s…
Indian on-demand music service Dhingana has revealed that it saw 10.5 million visitors last month, a figure that, the Bollywood specialist says, makes it the largest legal streaming music site…
China may be the world’s fastest growing smartphone market but the country’s growing app space is a very different one to that of North America, Europe and other Western markets….
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