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Apple’s App Store took US$3.57 bn from China in Q2 2018, up 25% YoY

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Apple's App Store generated 23.7 billion yuan (US$3.57 bn) from China in Q2 2018, up 25% over Q2 2017 (US$2.86 bn) and 6% over Q1 this year. Almost the same as Q1 2018, though mobile gaming apps accounted for the lion's share of 79% in revenues, it only increased by 15% from Q2 2017, which is nothing compared with the skyrocketing growth of entertainment apps (163%). … [Read more...]

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How many mobile apps in China? Over 4 million…

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For the first four months of 2018, internet enterprises above designated size in China generated 264.9 billion yuan, an increase of 24.9% year-on-year. Meanwhile, the overall R&D expenditure totaled 14.45 billion yuan, up by 22.3% over last year, according to MIIT (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology). … [Read more...]

Top Public Cloud in APAC in Q1 2018; Alibaba, Tencent among top 5

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Within public cloud services market, Alibaba Cloud ranked second in the APAC region and fourth worldwide. In China, the top five cloud providers are all local companies. China now accounts for a third of the total APAC market and its share of the regional total is increasing each quarter. 81% of WeChat users playing Mini-Games in 2018 … [Read more...]

Alibaba’s first eWTP hub gone live in Malaysia 2018

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Alibaba Group’s first eWTP hub outside of China has gone live in Malaysia. The milestone follows Alibaba’s partnership with the Malaysian Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) to work jointly to enable Malaysian small and medium-sized enterprises to benefit from global trade. … [Read more...]

WeChat and Alipay payments are making smartphones obsolete

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When you are still astonished by the unique experiences brought by mobile payment in China, WeChat and Alipay have already started to lead a new payment innovation out of smartphones. Highways contactless payment Alipay launched "license plate payment". As long as the Zhima Credit is more than 550 points, users can directly bind their car to Alipay, then their license plate … [Read more...]

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[REPORT] China smartphone market insights Q1 2018; shipment dropped by 16%

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China’s smart devices saw a continued growth of 1.8% in active devices to 1.45 billion units in Q1 2018. iPhone still led this market. Android smartphones saw 900 million active users in Q1 2018 while Huawei overtook Oppo to have the highest retention rate. Smartphone shipments in China dropped by 16% in Q1 2018. Check out smartphone sales, shipment, top brands, market share, … [Read more...]

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Apple’s App Store made US$3.5 bn in China in Q1 2018, up 29% YoY

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In Q1 2018, Apple App Store generated 22.4 billion yuan (US$3.49 bn) from China, up 29% over Q1 2017. Mobile gaming apps took the largest share of 79% in revenues, but only saw an 18% increase year-on-year, well off that of entertainment apps (138%). The total number of downloads reached 2.5 billion in Q1 2018, representing 32% of the global downloads. … [Read more...]

WeChat Mini-Programs expected 500 million users in Q1 2018

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With ticket grabbing WeChat Mini-Programs going viral, WeChat Mini-Program games see peak concurrent active users reaching 28 million per hour. Mini-games "Jump" (Tiaoyitiao) sold its advertising opportunity to Nike at 20 million yuan (US$3.1 million); and, WeChat started Mini-Programs' advertising internal testing. The commercialization of WeChat Mini-Programs has entered into … [Read more...]

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