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China’s Ban Of Winnie The Pooh Continues With New Film
Disney’s Latest Film Banned In China Due To Winnie The Pooh Earlier this year, we reported some shocking news from China. Winnie the Pooh, one of the worlds most beloved bears had been banned in China. Well, specifically he had been banned from appearing on their social media platforms. It…
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Weibo Ends ‘Gay Censorship’ After Mass Outcry
China’s Social Media Platform Weibo Ends ‘Gay Censorship’ For the vast majority of the time, I’m quite happy that I live in a society that is reasonably accepting of all creeds, religions, races and miscellaneous items in the human race. This is particularly when compared with China which seems to…
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Weibo Cracks Down On Homosexuals As #IAmGay Trends
China Crack Down On Homosexuality on Weibo Sparks #IAmGay backlash It’s not much of a secret to suggest that in China, the state like to take a rather heavy hand in the media. Even their own social media platform Weibo is largely (if not entirely) state-controlled. As often comes with…
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Chinese CEO Compares Apple to Hitler
Jia Yueting, CEO of Chinese video website Leshi TV has posted an image to his personal Weibo page that show a cartoon Adolf Hitler that, in the place of the familiar Swastika, has the Apple logo emblazoned on his armband. The image compares Apple to Android, with the Google operating…
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How App Store Rankings Are Hacked
The image along with that title makes this really self-explanatory. You can probably guess what is going on there. In China, it appears that there’s a growing industry of App Store rankings manipulation. It’s quite simple – an app developer pays a company with loads of iPhones, the company with loads…
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Nokia’s N1 Tablet Sold Out; Sells 20,000 Units in Four Minutes
Within four minutes of being made available for pre-order, the Nokia N1 Android Tablet sold every one of its 20,000 units in China yesterday. Nokia made the announcement through its Weibo (China’s answer to Twitter) account, and warned prospective customers that 566,438 people were on the waiting list for the…
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Supposed iPad Pro Manufacturing Mould Leaked in Photo
An image of what appears to be a manufacturing mould for the rumoured iPad Pro have leaked online. The image was uploaded to China’s Twitter equivalent – Weibo. The mould appears to have a place for an Apple logo and a camera. But of course the most notable aspect of this…
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Mental Millet: 1.62 Million Phone Orders in 72 hours
Chinese phone company and electricity provider Millet have just reported that after 72 hours of continuous operation, they’ve dispatched over 1.62 million total units of their new phone release amounting to a total sales amount of $254.5m USD. This shipping figure doesn’t include their TV orders processed in the same time…
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Microsoft Blog Post Accidentally Leaks “Windows 9 is Coming Soon”
Who better to give us more information on Windows 9 than Microsoft themselves! Looks like the technology giant will be having words with their Chinese division after the team leaked a logo (now believed to be a mockup, not the final) with the phrase “Microsoft’s latest OS Windows 9 is…
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China Imposes New Restrictions on Instant Messaging and First Detained
Last year, China launched a campaign to clamp down on on-line rumour mongering and “clean up” the internet. The crackdown has led to an exodus of users from microblog platforms such as Weibo after authorities detained hundreds of outspoken users. The latest restrictions will affect hugely popular mobile messaging apps…
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ZTE Nubia Z7 NBA Edition Leaked
Both the ZTE Nubia Z5 and ZTE Nubia Z5 Mini have been released in the United States a few weeks before and the Chinese telecommunication giant signed a partnership with NBA team Houston Rockets. ZTE’s latest handset, Nubia Z7 has been leaked through the Chinese social network. The press shot of ZTE Nubia Z7 was spotted on Public Relation manager…
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