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Alibaba’s New Online Personal Finance Product Hits 2.5 Million Users, $1 Billion Already Deposited
A few weeks ago it was interesting to see China’s e-commerce titan Alibaba move in to disrupt China’s personal finance industry with a new, online-only finance product aimed at the regular Zhou. Giving China’s prudent savers a higher interest rate than most banks’ time deposit offerings (Alibaba’s is currently giving 6.299 percent), the new service […]
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Baidu announces upcoming launch of Baifa as it moves into personal finance
Baidu announced today that it will officially launch a new finance platform on the 28th. According to Netease News, Baidu’s new personal investment platform will be called Baifa and will be launched in collaboration with Baidu Finance and China Asset Management. Users can make a minimum investment of RMB 1 (about $0.16) and can see […]
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6 Useful Hidden Features of iOS7
Seems like everyone has found the SAME “Top 10 Hidden iOS7 features,” already, so they’re not really all that hidden anymore. Here are MY favorite semi-hidden features — ones that I find useful. 1. Turn Siri into an English butler. Ask him to “Call Josh,” and he’ll respond, “Ringing Josh.” His confused responses to your […]
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Startup Whisper banks on secrets
Social-networking sites such as Facebook create a massive stage for people’s public persona, but what about a place for private thoughts? Enter Whisper. The startup’s mobile app provides a popular place where people anonymously post their secrets in stylized fonts overlaid on top of photos. These often-whimsical remarks can be daring, funny or candid and […]
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As Messaging App WeChat Pushes Past 300M Users, Owner Tencent Sets Up Shop In Singapore To Spin It Off
Tencent has had listed business entity in Singapore since May, although it’s denied rumors that it intends to list WeChat on the Singapore stock exchange (SGX). A China Daily report on Tuesday quoted an unnamed source saying that the Hong Kong-listed Chinese social networking giant plans to list its WeChat product in Singapore, and that […]
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Why Are Vine Videos Exactly 6 Seconds Long?
Every time I pull out my phone and snap a few shots of our family outings, the Vine icon beckons. And each time I give in to the urge to share those six-second snaps of eye candy, I wonder the same thing… Why six seconds? Laura Sydell of NPR’s All Things Considered recently sat down […]
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How LinkedIn Became A Wall Street Juggernaut
Glenn Solomon is a Partner with GGV Capital. Some of his recent investments include Pandora, Successfactors, Isilon, Domo, Square, Zendesk, Quinstreet and Nimble Storage. His personal blog, focused on growth stage entrepreneurs who are thinking big; can be found at here. In 2010, had you suggested to the smartest Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors that […]
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iPhone 5S would begin a critical time for Apple
Here we go. Word is that Apple is going to unveil its new iPhone at an event scheduled for Sept. 10, according to All Things D. Few other details were known, although Apple is widely expected to show off a new iPhone 5S that has been rumored to include improved cameras and processors as well […]
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The Leaked New Features with WeChat 5.0 Look Too Good
We’ve been waiting for the new version of WeChat (or Weixin), edition 5.0, for a while that reportedly would be a major update. Today we heard about some of the new features, some of which sound too good. We still have to wait for the launch day, which is still unknown, to see it for […]
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Apple developer site targeted in security attack, still down
Apple’s Developer Center was taken offline last Thursday, with the company at first claiming extended site maintenance. It is now clear that the Development Center was taken down due to an intrusion by unknown hackers. The site remains down while Apple initiates a security overhaul, admitting that some developers’ personal information may have been compromised […]
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