Intel Wants to Redesign Your Server Rack

The word of the day: Disaggregation.
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Gaming Boosts Tencent’s Profit

Chinese online gaming and social-media company Tencent Holdings Ltd. said its fourth-quarter net profit rose 37 percent from a year earlier on rising revenue from a number of online services including gaming and sales of virtual products.

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How Social Media Usage Among China’s Digital Natives Is Evolving

As more and more Chinese go online, digital connectivity is now being shaped by a wide variety of consumers.
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Toward a More Visual Language: How Social Networks Skirt Censorship in China

There are ways around the hard-and-fast rules of the state. Listen up, Facebook.
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Kamcord Gets Backing From Top Investors to Record Mobile Game Play

Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures and Tencent are just three of the investors backing a small San Francisco start-up called Kamcord.
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Mary Meeker Explains The Internet – Without Slides (Video)

And she does mean everything.
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Mary Meeker Explains the Mobile Monetization Challenge

Looming over the Internet industry is the mismatch between the growth in mobile usage and mobile monetization. At D10, Mary Meeker has the charts and graphs to show what’s really going on.
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Despite Crackdowns, Sina Still Winning the Weibo Game

Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo may be in the midst of its most aggressive crackdown yet following an explosion of political rumors among users, but it is still beating Tencent in the microblogging race in China, according to a McKinsey & Co. report released this week.

Are Celebrity Accounts on Private Social Media an Oxymoron? Ask Chinese Pop Star Wang Leehom.

How a leading Chinese mobile social network “broke” itself to allow a celebrity user — and it worked.
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One to Watch: Tencent’s 100M-User-Strong Weixin Messaging App

Tencent’s smartphone messaging app Weixin has a reported 100 million registered users.
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