Chinese spent 31% more time on sports & fitness mobile apps in 2018
Summer was the peak season for body-building with 104.24 million active users using sports & fitness mobile apps in China. On average, a user used sports &
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Top lifestyle mobile apps in China in Q2 2018
Kugou music ranked on top in China’s mobile music apps market in Q2 2018; Tencent News and Toutiao on top for news apps; and, Meituan
China mobile input apps in 2018, led by Sogou, iFlytek, and Baidu
China’s input method market saw 690 million users in June 2018, a 13.1% increase from the same period last year. Sogou Input Method (Sogou Pinyin)
3 Trends of WeChat Mini-Programs
The growth horizons of WeChat’s mini-programs are becoming increasingly defined. Gaming, traveling and shopping programs have been firmly established as the leading categories. The “instant
China smartphone users profiles 2018; Apple, Huawei vs. Xiaomi
Overall, male users accounted for 55% of the smartphone market while male users took 45% shares. Male users liked Huawei best while Apple was the
China to spend US$77 bn on robots by 2022
China is estimated to spend US$77 billion on robots (including drones) by 2022 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26.3%, according to the
Xiaomi sold 32 million smartphones in Q2 2018
In Q2 2018, Xiaomi reported a high growth of 58.7% in smartphone revenues to 30.5 billion yuan (US$4.61 bn), accounting for roughly two-thirds of the
Over 70% Chinese will choose Google over Baidu if it returns
Not long after Facebook’s Hangzhou subsidiary launch, Google was reported to be planning a launch of a censored search engine in China. A poll was created
Tencent saw its first decline in profit since Q3 2005 in Q2 2018; WeChat MAU 1.06B
Tencent saw its first decline in profit since Q3 2005. WeChat total MAUs grew about 10% to 1,057.7 million. Overall, both QQ and QZone saw
Pricing only the 2nd most important in China for choosing cloud vendors
China devoted almost the same amount of expenditures to the public and private cloud in 2017. That differs a lot from the United States where public
Chinese search engine Sogou revenues up 43% in Q2 2018
Sogou achieved solid results in Q2 2018 with revenue increasing 43% year-on-year to US$301.4 million and non-GAAP net income up by 58% to US$38.2 million,
iPhone X tops best-seller list for 8th month, but crisis looming
Apple loses No.1 position in NPS ranking in China, replaced by Vivo. The decline of iPhone’s NPS was mostly because many users were still using
China filed 217,000 invention patents in H1 2018, led by Huawei
China had a total of 751,000 new patent filings in H1 2018, 217,000 of which were granted, according to the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO).
China mobile internet market forecast 2018-2020
China’s mobile internet saw slower growth of 48.8% in transactions to 8,229.88 billion yuan (US$1,267.10 bn) in 2017. And, it’s expected to reach 11,432 billion
WeChat Mini-Programs: top categories and referring sources
The number of WeChat Mini-Programs is estimated to reach 3 million by the end of 2018. It is also expected to reach 400 million daily
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