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China is undergoing a rent-to-own electronics boom

Jan 30, 2024

Here in the United States, rent-to-own services have a bad reputation for preying on low-income families that can't make consistently on...

Alibaba is getting face recognition-enabled payments soon

Jan 30, 2024

Online shopping in China is about to get a whole lot easier thanks to Alibaba, the nation's top e-commerce company. Speaking...

Apple uses word magic to make its products seem cooler

Jan 30, 2024

What you're saying isn't as important as how you're saying it or, more specifically, the kind of wording you use....

Hundreds of Chinese startups are about to hit an impassable wall

Jan 30, 2024

China has been experiencing a startup boom over the past couple of years thanks to how easy it is for...

Baidu has given up on its homemade Android-based operating system

Jan 30, 2024

Baidu launched its own version of Android back in 2011 and, despite companies like Dell helping to give the mobile...

Twitter continues its Asian expansion with a new office in Hong Kong

Jan 30, 2024

It has been less than a week since Twitter opened an office in Jakarta but the social network is already taking...

Xiaomi plans to boost its smartphone sales to 100 million this year

Jan 30, 2024

Last year saw Xiaomi truly establishing itself as one of the top dogs in the smartphone market and the burgeoning Chinese...

Glassjar wants to make paying bills in a group much easier

Jan 30, 2024

Payments apps have bee exploding in popularity in recent months, thanks to Apple Pay, but an app by the name...

Alibaba is bringing its cloud computing services to America

Jan 30, 2024

Alibaba is often described as the "Amazon of China" and seems to be doing everything it can to retain that...

Xiaomi isn’t working on an electric vehicle… yet

Jan 30, 2024

Electric cars are growing in popularity everywhere, including China where numerous companies, many of which had no previous ties to...

Microsoft may as well have not launched the Xbox One in China

Jan 30, 2024

If you want to know how well the Xbox One is doing in China, just look at BesTV, the company...

DataStreamX wants to take the pain out of trading big data

Jan 30, 2024

We live in world that revolves around big data, and its only going to become more dependent on data as...