VentureBeat:
General Electric’s latest in a string of joint ventures with China is a plan to transition its manufacturing of train-based engine components to Beijing.By the end of 2011, testing and re-building of components like turbochargers and power assemblies will take place in China. Starting in 2013, engines will be assembled, tes (Read More)
VentureBeat:
President Barack Obama is in Beijing today, working with President Hu Jintao on a number of issues pertaining to U.S.-China relations. One of the prime areas of concern: Climate change — how the two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases can collaborate to turn around global warming. As a start, the two leaders announced an a (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Intel said today that it has invested $25 million in seven new startups as part of its goal of advanced the interests of increasing demand for the company’s products.The investments were led by Intel Capital, which is the investment arm of the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip maker. The investments show that Intel hasn’t flin (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Google’s Android phones have emerged as major competitors to the red-hot iPhone. And now Android seems to have yet one more thing working in its favor: Carriers have figured out that it offers them some very valuable options to help them differentiate their services from their competitors.Fundamentally, Android is just an o (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Two of the most vocal proponents for changing the way news and information are distributed took their message to the World Media Summit in Beijing today. We posted the full text earlier of News Corp (NYSE: NWS) Chairman Rupert Murdoch’s take on the “Philistines” of news (his own tribe until a recent conversion). Now we’re a (Read More)
Mashable!:
While some newspapers and news organization are finding ways to adapt to the web era of journalism, others are making headlines for their plans to charge for news content online, ranging from logical to ludicrous. We’ll let you decide where today’s statements fall on this spectrum.Associated Press CEO Tom Curley and famed (Read More)
paidContent.org:
News Corp (NYSE: NWS) Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch took to the stage at the World Media Summit in Beijing Friday to quote a little Confucius and paint his version of the digital future for his Chinese hosts. Murdoch’s endeavors in China have met with mixed success and some of that frustration showed, especially when he t (Read More)
TwitLinks:
Time flies fast, and new browsers replace old ones. Firefox , Chrome , Safari , Opera and, of course, even Internet Explorer have been upgraded and updated countless times in the last couple of years. (Read More)
mashable:
Not long ago, we received several tips that the popular Twitter-based photo sharing site TwitPic was blocked in China. The trigger for this seems to be a gas explosion in central Beijing that occurred less than 24 hours ago.We’re still trying to piece together the series of events that led to this TwitPic ban, but here’s w (Read More)
Engadget:
Remember last week? When 21Mbps HSPA+ was something to stand up and cheer about, and you were even happy to settle for HSPA 7.2 if you could? Well, it's time trade in those good feelings for some jealousy and bitterness once again, buckaroo, 'cause Hauwei has now announced that it's set to more than double HSPA+ speeds to a (Read More)
Engadget:
The fine folks at the Beijing Institute of Technology just unveiled a pair of new bots, dubbed JingJing and PuiPui. Back in 2003 BIT was showing off its BHR-1 and BHR-2 bots, life-sized humanoids that can do tai chi, and these new bots keep their predecessor's martial arts capabilities but add in some conversational skills. (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Playfish is one of the fastest-growing companies in the hot social games space. Today, the company announced that it is opening a new game development studio in San Francisco.Even in a recession, it’s clear that social game companies such as Playfish are in the midst of a big growth cycle. Founded in late 2007, the company (Read More)
VentureBeat:
The real-time search race is entering its next leg. After about a dozen start-ups rushed to launch basic search pages showing real-time results, a few are releasing application programming interfaces in hopes that developers will build a useful ecosystem of apps around them.Collecta, a startup that models its architecture (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Kai-Fu Lee, who led Google’s China operations until last week, is launching a new early-stage investment fund and startup incubator based in Beijing called Innovation Works.Lee says Innovation Works’ approach will be highly-tailored for the Chinese market. It will have more hands-on mentoring, build projects in-house and th (Read More)
VentureBeat:
The Wall Street Journal reports that China’s Ministry of Culture has set out to conduct a massive clean up of what it claims on its website are problems with ”the intermingling of good and bad content,” “the large quantity of imported music without approval,” plus copyright violations and a ”lack of supervision and regulat (Read More)