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Baidu Acquires PPS for $370 Million, Claims It's Now China's Biggest Video Platform
— Well, the rumors are true. Chinese search company Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) announced today that it has acquired PPS.tv's streaming video service for $370 million. The acquisition bolsters Baidu's video offerings …
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Amazon Appstore Opens in China, Leaps Final Hurdle Before Kindle Fire Launch
— In a surprise move, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has opened its Android-oriented Appstore in China today. That's despite the fact that China wasn't listed on Amazon's Appstore expansion roadmap last month …
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North Korea Sees Huge Growth in 3G Users, Now at 2 Million Subscribers
— North Korea's sole 3G mobile telco, KoryoLink, has seen amazing growth in user numbers recently. The NorthKoreaTech blog has spotted that KoryoLink's 3G user-base has doubled in the past 15 months …
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E-Commerce Giant Alibaba Works With Chinese Government to Bring Down Piracy in China
— Jack Ma, chairman of Alibaba, at today's anti-piracy event. — China's e-commerce giant Alibaba is working with five Chinese government agencies to fight piracy in China.
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China's Top Apple Hackers Launch a Pirate iOS App Store
— KuaiYong has just launched this web store for pirated iOS apps. — Far from being shut down by Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), the Chinese team behind KuaiYong seems to be thriving. Last year it made a no-jailbreak-needed alternative …
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Scammers in China Exploit Apple to Turn Fake iPhones into Real Ones
— Apple has been taking quite a bit of stick over the last month for its after-sales service practices in China, and perhaps rightfully so. But instead of being exploited by Apple, police have discovered …
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Baidu Reportedly Working on Google Glass-Like ‘Baidu Eye’
— Where Google goes, so too goes Baidu? It certainly seems the company may have been inspired by Google Glass if Sina Tech's report that the company is working on a new wearable tech product called Baidu Eye (pictured) is correct.
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Kaifu Lee: Check Out My Chart of How Often I Get Censored by Sina Weibo
— Despite insisting that he's no activist and is just keen on debating with his 33.4 million followers on Sina Weibo, entrepreneur and former Google China country manager, Kaifu Lee, finds his Weibo posts get censored and deleted quite a lot.
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North Korean News Agency Accuses US and Allies of Cyberattacks
— North Korea's official news agency KCNA has accused the US and its allies of conducting cyberattacks. Described as “intensive and persistent virus attacks”, it's otherwise not clear what information the alleged hackers were after or if any data was stolen.
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A Shocking Expose of China's Black PR Industry Implicates Government Officials, is Quickly Deleted from the Web
— Almost everyone knows about the public relations industry, but fewer people know about what in China is referred to as Black PR, the underground internet industry that has evolved with the spread of web 2.0 through China.
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How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
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