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MarTech Alliance Debuts New Supergraphic, Twitter Updates Privacy Policy & More News
In our customer experience software news column this week a new martech supergraphic out of APAC, UberFlip launching Marketplace and more CX news.
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Goodbye Copycat: China Returns to Its Innovation Roots
The copycat era is ending in China, where a new generation of entrepreneurs is developing new technologies, business models and world-class products.
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China's Thriving On-Demand Economy Offers Lessons For Us All
The on-demand service economy — also known as the online to offline (O2O) market — was virtually unheard of five years ago. In the ensuing years it's gone from investment darling, to reports of its imminent implosion and back again.
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Alibaba: The Web IPO Heard Round the World
"It's insanity.com," says John Fitzgibbon Jr., Owner and Publisher of IPOScoop.com, an Internet publication covering IPOs. "It's multi-times oversubscribed. It's frenzy and it's a one-day show. It will be all over by this time tomorrow." Road Show Frenzy Alibaba executives have been on a Wall St.
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HP Launches Converged Cloud Solutions for APAC, Japan
Customers from the Asia Pacific and Japan region are found to prefer simple cloud solutions, and Hewlett-Packard wants to encourage businesses to adopt cloud deployments by offering pre-bundled kits to make things simpler to launch and manage.
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Apple to Pay China's Proview $60M to Settle 'iPad' Trademark Dispute
China is one of Apple's most lucrative markets, although legal disputes in the country have caused trouble for the iPhone and iPad maker.
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Social Media on the Rise in China
Facebook may be the world's most popular social network. But in the world's most populous country, Facebook is a virtual unknown, due to government filtering through the so-called Great Firewall of China.
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Alibaba Buys Back $7.1B Stake from Yahoo!, Opens Up IPO Opportunities & Yahoo! Comeback
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has been trying to buy back a big stake in the company from Yahoo! for two years now, in a bid to expand its business and eventually issue an initial public offering. Earlier this week, Yahoo! and Alibaba have approved a US$ 7.
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Facebook Growth Fueled by Asian Countries, but Challenged by Infrastructure & Regulations
Facebook has just made its phenomenal initial public offering at NASDAQ, and industry observers are talking of how big the impact of the social network's IPO will be, outside of newly-minted millionaires and billionaires of the Internet age.
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Apple iPad Goes 'Cellular' to Address 4G Marketing Complaints
The term "cellular" may have gone out of fashion with the prevalence of smartphones, tablets, and various mobile data technologies. However, Apple is taking one step back in terms of branding and marketing, due to complaints over its "4G" moniker on its new iPad. '4G' Around the World While the
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Evernote Plans Asia Expansion, But Will Privacy Issues in China Prevail?
Evernote, the cloud-based service that helps users remember everything through note-taking and clipping, is expanding to new regions. But, with plans to set up datacenters in China, should users be concerned about privacy amid Chinese regulations toward censorship and data access? Evernote has announced plans to expand to Asia, and
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Google Drive Banned in China, But Local Cloud Services Thrive
Google Drive is barely a day old, and it has already earned the ire of some of the biggest Internet audiences. Apparently China -- or at least the authorities -- doesn't like Google Drive, as with other Google services. The recently-launched cloud storage service has been blocked by the Great Firewall of China.
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Intel Officially in Smartphone Business with Release of India's Lava Xolo X900
The ARM platform is the king of the hill when it comes to smartphone and tablet processing chips. At the 2012 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona though, Intel challenged ARM by announcing its Medfield class Atom chips, meant for mobile phones.
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MadeiraCloud Offers Cloud Architecture Design, Setup Through Diagrams
Designing cloud architectures can be a daunting task, with the stacks, applications and interfaces that need to be programmed and setup.
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