App Store Wandoujia Adds 500,000 Users a Day, About Half of New Android...
Chinese consumers now have over 250 million active smartphones and tablets, with most of them running Android. Despite that enthusiasm for the flexibility and diverse price-points of Android devices,...
View ArticleThis new startup connects developers with China’s multitude of Android app...
China looks set to have 300 million active Android smartphone users by the end of the year, which makes it a market that app developers badly want to tap. But Chinese consumers’ aversion to Google’s...
View ArticleBaidu says app stores are flawed, asks developers, “Do you feel happy?”
Despite Baidu‘s recent $1.9 billion acquisition of mobile app store 91 Wireless, China’s most popular search giant didn’t speak so fondly of the app store model at its Baidu World conference yesterday....
View ArticleXiaomi app store reaches 1 billion downloads
The app store launched about 13 months ago, and is claimed to be one of the top five app stores in China (out of about 200 total).
View Article‘Infectonator: Hot Chase’ is infectious in every sense of the word
Infectonator: Hot Chase has made our Indonesian team crazy with its addictive yet simple gameplay. Indonesian indie game developer Toge Productions released the game last week as a follow up to the...
View ArticleForget the funny name, Jalan Tikus may be Indonesia’s biggest app store startup
Online piracy is rampant in Indonesia, and as a result, due to the ease of obtaining free content, few local sites cater users who prefer to obtain content through legal channels. Jalan Tikus hopes to...
View ArticleAlibaba invests $50 million in US-based app search engine Quixey
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has invested $50 million into mobile app search engine Quixey, the California-based company announced last night. The investment marked Quixey’s series C round of...
View ArticleApple settles lawsuit in Thailand over copyright-breaching news apps
Back in February of this year, Thailand’s Online News Providers Association (SONP) filed a lawsuit against Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) at the Thai Central Intellectual Propery and International Trade court for...
View ArticleApp store Wandoujia seals $120 million in funding amidst China’s Android boom
Wandoujia, one of China’s top Android app stores, has secured a massive $120 million in funding, the Beijing-based startup revealed today. The investment is led by SoftBank (TYO:9984), the Japanese...
View ArticleQihoo’s year-long ban from Apple’s App Store is over, some apps reappear
Chinese web company Qihoo (NYSE:QIHU), makers of China’s second most popular search engine, last year suffered the ignominy of being banned from Apple’s iOS App Store. That long ban is now over. Five...
View ArticleXL Axiata launches an Android app store
Indonesian telco XL Axiata has been planning to launch its own app store for some time, and today it is revealed to be Gudang App (which means “app factory”).
View ArticleGoldman Sachs eyes China’s mobile content market with investment in Wandoujia
Chinese mobile content search engine and Android app store Wandoujia today announced it closed its series B round of financing with a follow-on investment from US investment bank Goldman Sachs. The...
View Article4 alternative Android app stores in Indonesia
Many players are looking to launch their own Android app stores in order to feed download-hungry users in Indonesia.
View Article“Oi! Remove your app from the store,” says Apple following takedown order...
“We think it’s a ridiculous accusation,” says one of the guys behind Oi, which is made by an Australian startup.
View ArticleApple needs to improve its App Store review process now
The Apple App Store's review process is in need of an urgent overhaul. Here are 3 suggestions how.
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'Infectonator: Hot Chase' is infectious in every sense of the word
Infectonator: Hot Chase has made our Indonesian team crazy with its addictive yet simple gameplay. Indonesian indie game developer Toge Productions released the game last week as a follow up to the...
View ArticleSingTel and PlayPhone launch Android gaming app store WePlay
Singapore-based telco SingTel and mobile gaming publisher PlayPhone have launched WePlay, a mobile gaming platform for Android users, just a month and a half after inking the deal for it. WePlay is an...
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Little Things Forever creator Matthew Hall spills the beans on getting...
Many developers try, but few succeed in getting their games featured in the Apple App Store, a coveted throne which will ensure your game’s success. Matthew Hall, the one-man army developer behind...
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“Your app is trying too hard to be Flappy Bird": reasons your app might fail...
Moonfrog Labs co-founder Oliver Jones spoke at Casual Connect Asia 2014, dealing out the harsh truths on what makes games fail, and how to avoid making some critical mistakes in game development. One...
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Cherry Mobile Pinoy Appshop, home of 100 percent Pinoy-made games
The Philippine game development industry is still young, with a good number of game development studios working hard to produce fun and high-quality games. But no matter how good your games are, it...
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Games account for nearly 90% of all mobile app revenue in Japan
At CEDEC 2014, mobile app analytics company App Annie shared a pretty interesting breakdown of the mobile app industry in Japan and elsewhere that has since been re-posted on Chinese gaming sites. For...
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Singaporeans love puns, and Punfound is proof of that.
Singaporeans love puns, or lame jokes, as they’re more commonly referred to here. This might explain why Australian studio Pygmy Tyrant’s Punfound app is doing so well in Singapore—squatting in the #1...
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Touchten Games has 7 easy tips for surviving the App Store
At the Astro #GOInnovate conference last weekend, Touchten Games CEO and founder Anton Soeharyo took to the stage to give the audience tips to survive the App Store. Soeharyo had previously presented...
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Apple set to make even more money in China as it adds UnionPay support to App...
Although far more people use Android phones, China’s iOS users already outspend their Android brethren when it comes to dollars being dropped in the App Store. And yesterday, Apple announced a change...
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Opera mobile store to become the default app store on legacy Nokia phones
Opera Software has signed an agreement with Microsoft to become the default mobile app store on the Nokia Symbian feature phones and Nokia X platform devices. From the first quarter of next year, the...
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Apple allows China App Store to price apps as low as 16 cents
Some apps in China’s iOS App Store are now available for a mere RMB 1 – that’s US$0.16. It’s the cheapest rate for a paid app anywhere in the world. The lowest paid tier in the China App Store used to...
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Could Hong Kong be the key to unlocking the greater China app market?
This article originally appeared on the Metaps Blog. It has been modified slightly for style. Founded by Katsuaki Sato, Metaps is a Japanese company which specializes in maximizing app downloads and...
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Baidu’s Android app store has 2.88 million active users in Indonesia
Most of Indonesia’s web users spend time online using mobile devices. And while there are about 38.3 million active smartphone users in the country, that number will surpass 100 million by 2018. So...
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A viral photo in China shows how to manipulate App Store rankings the hard way
A photo of a woman sitting in front of what appear to be dozens of iPhone 5Cs has gone viral in China. While few details about the photo’s origins are available, media have speculated she works at a...
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Philippine telco Smart unveils world’s first direct billing service for App...
Filipinos subscribed to Smart Communications will no longer need credit cards to buy apps, games, books, magazines, music, and movies for their Apple devices. The Philippines’ leading mobile operator...
View ArticleAsian VCs back Portuguese competitor to Google’s app store in $4m investment...
The independent app store from Portugal strengthens its foothold in Asia with backing from regional investors.
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Brief: Apple and WeChat battled over in-app purchases
Photo credit: Tech in Asia. The news: Several Chinese social media companies, including WeChat owner Tencent, have lambasted Apple’s claim that user-to-user “tips” count as in-app purchases, of which...
View ArticleRevolt against Apple, Google app stores gathers steam in Asia
A battle has been brewing between India's startups and Google. We take a deep dive into this global trend of startups vs app stores.
View ArticleMeesho, Shadowfax hit with legal notice over alleged ‘ghost orders’
The development came after Meesho users took to social media to share experiences of being scammed by fake orders, reported Entrackr.
View ArticleApple to add new payment systems in 🇰🇷 App Store
The iPhone maker will offer a reduced service charge as part of the change, The Korea Herald reported.
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