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Baidu Is Building Its Mobile Strategy But Says Don’t Discount PC Yetview story

http://techcrunch.com – Baidu shares have fallen 18% over the last quarter as investors worry that the search giant won’t be able to monetize its mobile business quickly enough to outpace domestic competitors like Qihoo 360 and Tencent Holdings. (IT news)

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fc17 stop working in chinaview story

http://forums.fedoraforum.org – I have a HP pavilion dm3 notebook, I intalled fc17 in the states, it was working fine here from internet accessing, email(gmail.com), printer setup and printing. But once I took it to beijing, china. things started to break. first I found the internet became very slow, gmail was not working at alll. google search snailed on for hours. does anyone else had the same experince, is there any fix(es)? (HowTos)

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Path Paves The Road To Asia, Adds A New Regional GM In Japan: Ex-Amazon, Apple Exec Shindo Kimihikoview story

http://techcrunch.com – Path’s growth trajectory is leading it to Asia. CEO Dave Morin said that people in Japan and Korea were behind the mobile social network’s second wave of new users after the release of Path 2.0, that China is the app’s second-largest market after the U.S., and that it’s adding more users in Asia than it is in Western markets. (IT news)

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Support China-Bought ZTE Blade Can't Use Google Play Whatsoeverview story

http://androidforums.com – Well, about 6 months ago, I bought my first Android, a ZTE Blade, in China. I was kinda bummed that it didn't come with Google Play, but it did come with several Chinese markets that had a fair selection (and all free). However I still wanted Google Play. (General)

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GO Weather EX widget/time zone funkinessview story

http://androidforums.com – I'm using the stock 4x2 GO Weather GO widget on my home screen. I have three saved cities, Chicago, Austin and Shanghai. In both the app and the widget Chicago and Austin correctly reflect UTC -6. But so does Shanghai, when it should be on China. I have looked at every setting, Google searched the hell out of it, but no joy. Does anyone out there know how I fix this? (General)

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Jolla’s Sailfish Rises From MeeGo’s Ashes As Company Signs First Carrier Deal With DNAview story

http://techcrunch.com – Jolla – the startup built by the team behind the smartphone OS that Nokia abandoned in favor of Windows Phone — revealed its first big smartphone customer deal today, the mobile operator DNA of Finland. (IT news)

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China Is Now Angry Birds’ Biggest Market By Daily Users Says Rovio At Slushview story

http://techcrunch.com – Speaking at the new super-sized Slush conference in Helsinki today (seriously, this thing has gotten a lot bigger), Rovio heads Niklas Hed (co-founder) and ‘Mighty Eagle’ Peter Vesterbacka, revealed to TechCrunch’s Kim Mai-Cutler on stage that Chinese players of Angry Birds had recently overtaken the US in terms of daily usage, and that back in the early days the game almost got (IT news)

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China’s Google, Baidu, Raises $1.5B In Bond Sale To Pay Down Debt And Fund M&Aview story

http://techcrunch.com – Baidu, China’s search behemoth, has announced that it is raising $1.5 billion in a two-part bond sale to write down debt and build up its war chest: Baidu remains the country’s biggest search portal but has of late been feeling the heat of competition from domestic rival Qihoo 360, an antivirus software company that launched its own search engine in August. Kaiser Kuo, Baidu’s director (IT news)

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Don’t Tell Mediafed That RSS Is Deadview story

http://techcrunch.com – It’s not clear what Google’s plans are for FeedBurner, its feed management and syndication platform. (IT news)

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IBM Offers $4 Billion in Financing to Channel Partnersview story

http://www.thevarguy.com – IBM (NYSE: IBM) Global Financing is making $4 billion in credit available to channel partners worldwide, in particular to stimulate sales of its cloud, analytics and PureSystems technology while easing the path to apply and secure financing with a new mobile app. IBM’s $4 million financing commitment follows a similar, albeit smaller $1 billion effort last year aimed at SMBs, an initiative the ven (IT news)