Examples include Zhihu, a Quora-like service for China, and Diandian, a Tumblr-like blog hosting platform for China, started by high-profile Internet entrepreneur Jack Xu, notably the former CIO at XiaoNei (now Renren).
Tencent QQ is already a wildly popular instant messaging platform in China, with over 700 million active users.
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' new release and catalog films this summer through the first national Pay-Per-View and Video On Demand platform in China.
In August 2012, iQiyi was ranked as the number one online video platform in China in terms of average time spent per user and number two in terms of total monthly time spent, according to iResearch, a China-based research firm.
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Luo Chuan, the former head of MySpace China, is now running a new startup called AppChina, a platform for Android developers in China.
Although there is not yet a recall in China, major online shopping platform Taobao has blocked Meiji baby formula from its search results, reports the China Daily.
Kenya Information Minister Samuel Poghisio was quoted by local media as saying that the paper would provide a platform for better understanding between China and Africa.
Sina has become quite the sensation in China due to its microblogging platform known as Weibo.
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Online shopping offers a platform for new fashion brands to enter China, without the expense and risk of opening physical stores.
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Sina is also enhancing its mobile platform to leverage the rising adoption of smartphones in China.
Most of the investments are in production facilities, RNCOS notes, adding that Brazil is likely to evolve into a production hub, becoming tough competition for China and India, and providing a platform for multinationals to develop and sell branded and generic versions of their off-patent medicines into other Latin American markets, if not further afield.
Although Google makes money off Android only through the services it provides through the platform, a large portion of Android devices, for instance in China, use home-grown services from which Google earns no revenues, and has no control.
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With NVIDIA's GRID platform we can deliver large numbers of games-on-demand channels to China's digital TV subscribers.
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And ultimately, not surprisingly, China has got to make these decisions based on its sovereignty and its economic platform.
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In China, there seems to be a preference for advanced versions of CDMA as the platform for third-generation implementation, so it may not be so bad for Unicom to hedge its bets by operating two different networks.
Rakuten China will operate in much the same way as the Japanese version, by providing a platform for thousands of vendors to sell their wares to users visiting the well-known website.
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The company is likely to strengthen its own online platform to compete, but may face headwinds from existing (and fast-growing) online retailers in China.
WeChat of China, which claims a whopping 300 million users, is also working on building out a social platform, as are messaging apps LINE and Nimbuzz of India.
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