Looks like Foursquare is experiencing the questionable honor of getting the attention of the Chinese government. Authorities appear to have blocked the service, at least in mainland China, according to many a tweet from Chinese location sharers. While this obviously can’t easily be confirmed, it appears as though the block is a result of Foursquare [...]

After exploring the mobile and Internet landscapes in Shanghai and Beijing, the GeeksOnAPlane (GOAP) group (30+ techies mostly from the Silicon Valley) continued their Asian field trip to Korea today. In Beijing, the GOAP attended two of China’s largest tech conferences: CHINICT, “the largest conference on China tech innovation” (which was livestreamed on TechCrunch), and [...]

Venture capital investments aren’t just picking up in the US, according to new numbers from Dow Jones VentureSource. The amount invested was up 13% globally in the first quarter of 2010. The sole exception was Europe: Where they fell 7%. It was the lowest number of deals since Dow Jones started tracking European deals in [...]

The iPad’s official international launch may have been delayed until the end of May, but citizens of or travelers to China can get their mitts on the (almost) next best thing courtesy of a flourishing bootleg electronics market. Just north of Hong Kong lies the city of Shenzhen, notorious for its sales of counterfeit versions [...]

Although social media channels have been skint in terms of coverage of today’s 7.1 earthquake in China, Google has just launched a People Finder app in an attempt to aid victims of the disaster. A massive earthquake hit northwest China’s Qinghai Province early this morning, killing more than 500 and injuring more than 10,000, according [...]

Read Part 1 of this series by Adam Hocherman. I am sitting in the lobby of the Royal Plaza Hotel in Mong Kok waiting for the owner of the factory that makes our Neverlate and Quad-Timer items to pick me up. The final legs of my journey were largely uneventful although it was nearly 2am [...]

Over the weekend, I attended the China Social Game Summit 2010 in Beijing, a two-day event that attracted over 400 international attendees and 80 speakers. According to the organizers (China’s leading social game service provider Appleap and Tokyo- and Beijing-based VC firm Infinity Venture Partners), the event is the biggest of its kind in China. [...]

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