Michael Kan - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Michael Kan

Article | 25/05/2012 China's Sina Weibo targeting Japanese advertisers

One of China's top Twitter-like sites, Sina Weibo, is working to attract Japanese companies to advertise on its platform by helping the firms open and...

Article | 24/05/2012 Lenovo's tablet shipments grow in China with low-priced products

PC maker Lenovo has used a basement price strategy in China to become the country's second largest tablet vendor, coming ahead of rivals offering Andr...

Article | 23/05/2012 Lenovo's fiscal Q4 profit up 59 per cent

Lenovo's net profit for its fiscal fourth quarter grew by 59 per cent, as the world's second largest PC maker saw continued growth in sales across bot...

Article | 21/05/2012 Certain HTC smartphones released to US carriers after passing customs inspections

Taiwanese smartphone vendor High Tech Computer said on Sunday certain models of its newest smartphones have passed U.S. Customs and are being released...

Article | 21/05/2012 Yahoo agrees to sell back partial stake to Alibaba

Yahoo has agreed to sell off about half of its stake in Alibaba Group back to the Chinese e-commerce giant as part of a US$7.1 billion deal, the two c...

Article | 15/05/2012 China's Baidu unveils new low-end smartphone with latest cloud platform

Baidu, which runs China's most popular search engine, has unveiled its newest smartphone, featuring the company's own mobile platform and priced to ta...

Article | 10/05/2012 PopCap Games CEO: Android still too fragmented, China helping company innovate

Android's increased fragmentation across hardware devices and OS versions, and its lack of a central app store, have left game developers disappointed...

Article | 10/05/2012 China's UCWeb partners with Evernote to bring note-taking feature to mobile browser

The company behind one of China's largest mobile Internet browsers, UCWeb, will incorporate note-taking features from Evernote into its product, as pa...

Article | 10/05/2012 Evernote launches China-based service to tap country's market

Evernote launched a Chinese version of its popular note-taking service on Thursday, marking the U.S. company's entrance into a key country, which has ...

Article | 10/05/2012 Angry Birds maker Rovio plans for amusement parks in China

Mobile game publisher Rovio is planning to build theme parks in China revolving around its hit product Angry Birds, months after a local amusement par...

Article | 10/05/2012 Flipboard China downloads expected to soon surpass U.S. downloads

Flipboard expects the daily number of downloads coming from China for its popular personalized news reading app will very soon surpass its U.S. downlo...

Article | 9/05/2012 China's top Twitter-like site sets up penalty system to stop online rumors

One of China's most popular Twitter-like sites, Sina Weibo, announced a new penalty system to temporarily close and shut down the accounts of users fo...

Article | 9/05/2012 Foxconn setting up China headquarters in Shanghai

Apple supplier Foxconn plans to set up headquarters in China, as part of the company's growing expansion in manufacturing and commercial operations.

Article | 8/05/2012 Lenovo launches smart TVs for China, bringing apps and games

Lenovo on Tuesday launched its K-series of smart TVs in China, marking the PC vendor's entry into another hot devices market with a product that boast...

Article | 7/05/2012 Lenovo building industrial center to develop tablets, smartphones

Chinese PC maker Lenovo plans to invest more than 5 billion yuan (US$796 million) to build facilities for the development and production of tablets, s...