China’s e-commerce industry has exploded over the past several years, and with it successful speciality shops have cropped up online for just about every type of product you could imagine. But there’s one big product category that isn’t selling online: medicine. It’s not for lack of trying, either. China has licensed websites to operate B2C [...]
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Standing in the Starbucks line at the tail end of my last day in Austin, I’m not happy. I’m tired, underwhelmed at the tech-focused things I’ve seen during South by Southwest’s Interactive sessions, my feet hurt like hell. To top it off, some jerk accidentally steals my iced Americano. And then it happens — a [...]
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Standing in the Starbucks line at the tail end of my last day in Austin, I’m not happy. I’m tired, underwhelmed at the tech-focused things I’ve seen during South by Southwest’s Interactive sessions, my feet hurt like hell. To top it off, some jerk accidentally steals my iced Americano. And then it happens — a [...]
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Standing in the Starbucks line at the tail end of my last day in Austin, I’m not happy. I’m tired, underwhelmed at what tech-focused things I’ve seen during South by Southwest’s Interactive sessions, my feet hurt like hell. To top it off, some jerk accidentally steals my iced americano. And then it happens — a [...]
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In response to a report quoting anonymous sources in Investment Bulletin suggesting that ZTE would lay off as much as twenty percent of its work force in the coming year, an anonymous ZTE representative told Beijing’s Capital Week (via the Global Times): The company is undergoing a labor optimization. Currently, there has been no mass [...]
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We are working with UK Trade & Investment to showcase the United Kingdom’s thriving start-up and investment scene through a series of posts and video interviews at SXSW. Check out all of the coverage here. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity. AUSTIN, TX — WayWire, the video startup that counts super-hero Newark, [...]
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Scientists have hacked together a microscope out of an iPhone, a piece of glass, double-sided tape, and a cheap flashlight that is good enough to detect intestinal worm infections with 70 percent accuracy. MacGyver, you’re out of a job. According to a study published today in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, scientists used the hacked-together [...]
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Continuing its strengthening mobile strategy, VNG released Giai Dieu Vui over the Lunar New Year break, a new iPhone game that gets users to compete with each other over their favorite types of music. Giai Dieu Vui bears some striking similarities to Songpop. For those who don’t follow popular gaming apps, Songpop was one of [...]
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U.S. national security adviser Tom Donilon spoke out today against Chinese hacking saying “the international community cannot afford to tolerate such activity.” Donilon spoke today in New York saying that the U.S. needs three things from China: a recognition of how serious this situation is, action from Beijing to stop people within the country from [...]
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U.S. national security adviser Tom Donilon spoke out today against Chinese hacking saying “the international community cannot afford to tolerate such activity.” Donilon spoke today in New York saying that the U.S. needs three things from China: a recognition of how serious this situation is, action from Beijing to stop people within the country from [...]
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