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• Weibo CEO: Clutter is good for us, and microblogging can thrive alongside messaging apps

  Weibo is widely known as 'China's Twitter' but it is actually very unlike Twitter. Weibo CEO chats to TNW and tells us that ...

  • Kaylene Hong

• Leap Motion’s CEO wants its gesture control in cars, as a software upgrade to track hands nears

  Leap Motion CEO wants its 3D gesture control integrated in cars, as its software will be upgraded to track not only fingers, ...

  • Kaylene Hong

• AutoNavi is making its app more like a browser as the race to be the Google Maps of China heats up

  The race to conquer mobile mapping in China is heating up, and AutoNavi is responding by adding services and making its app ...

  • Kaylene Hong

• Chat app Tango plans push into China, positioning itself as a window into the West

  Tango, a messaging app that has US as its largest market, is aiming to push into China this year as it seeks to be a window ...

  • Kaylene Hong

• Facebook has a 'rapidly growing' business in China, despite being banned there for 5 years

  Facebook Vice President Vaughan Smith says that Facebook has a 'rapidly growing' business in China, despite being banned ...

  • Kaylene Hong

• China's Tencent is embracing ‘connected companies’ as it focuses on online-to-offline services

  China's largest Internet firm Tencent is embracing ‘connected companies’ as it focuses on online-to-offline services. ...

  • Kaylene Hong

• China's three carriers team up to make a push into mobile gaming

  China's three carriers announced today that they are teaming up to make a push into mobile gaming, as they seek to rival ...

  • Kaylene Hong

• UCWeb says its new mobile search service has hit 20% market share in China and angered Baidu

  UCWeb CEO Yu Yongfu claims that Shenma, its mobile search venture with Alibaba, has hit 20 percent market share in China ...

  • Kaylene Hong

• 500 Startups' Rui Ma on getting into China early, and why 'boring' startups can be great investments

  Having recently entered China, 500 Startups is aiming to tap the market early, before it's too late.

  • Francis Bea

• Localization alone isn't enough for overseas game studios to succeed in China, says App Annie chief

  The Next Web caught up with CEO Bertrand Schmitt, CEO of mobile app analytics firm App Annie, where he explained why international ...

  • Francis Bea

• Visualead launches its near-invisible QR codes in China, seeks local partners and investors

  The company, which helps make QR codes easy and sophisticated, has launched in China/

  • Francis Bea

• Xiaomi founder clears the air on its new devices, global expansion plans and being 'China's Apple'

  Xiaomi founder Lei Jun discussed a range of topics at GMIC 2013 in Beijing today.

  • Francis Bea