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China is undergoing a rent-to-own electronics boom

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 time payments and the vast majority of people buy their...

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Alibaba is getting face recognition-enabled payments soon

Online shopping in China is about to get a whole lot easier thanks to Alibaba, the nation's top e-commerce company. Speaking in Hanover over the weekend, Alibaba founder Jack Ma explained that online...

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Apple uses word magic to make its products seem cooler

What you're saying isn't as important as how you're saying it or, more specifically, the kind of wording you use. This is especially true in the tech world and Apple...

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Hundreds of Chinese startups are about to hit an impassable wall

China has been experiencing a startup boom over the past couple of years thanks to how easy it is for these companies to secures series A and series B funding. However,...

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

Baidu launched its own version of Android back in 2011 and, despite companies like Dell helping to give the mobile operating system a good boost in the beginning, Yun OS has...

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

It has been less than a week since Twitter opened an office in Jakarta but the social network is already taking the next step in its Asian expansion, this time by...

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

Last year saw Xiaomi truly establishing itself as one of the top dogs in the smartphone market and the burgeoning Chinese company wants to take things even further this year. Despite...

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Glassjar wants to make paying bills in a group much easier

Payments apps have bee exploding in popularity in recent months, thanks to Apple Pay, but an app by the name of Glassjar is doing something a bit different. Founded by...

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Alibaba is bringing its cloud computing services to America

Alibaba is often described as the "Amazon of China" and seems to be doing everything it can to retain that title. Not only is the country a prominent player in the e-commerce...

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Xiaomi isn’t working on an electric vehicle… yet

Electric cars are growing in popularity everywhere, including China where numerous companies, many of which had no previous ties to the automotive industry, have been delving into the world of...

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

If you want to know how well the Xbox One is doing in China, just look at BesTV, the company that Microsoft partnered with the release the console in China....

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DataStreamX wants to take the pain out of trading big data

We live in world that revolves around big data, and its only going to become more dependent on data as time goes by. Even so, the process of buying and...

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