China’s UCWeb launches a PC browser that features integration with Alibaba’s shopping sites

Apr10

by Sindy Cator on April 10, 2014 at 8:40 am

Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, browser, Product Launches

After releasing a browser for smart TVs last month, China’s UCWeb has launched a PC browser today, as it seeks to capture as many eyeballs as it can across a variety of platforms. UCWeb is behind the popular mobile UC Browser, which has over 500 million users around the globe and uses data compression technology to minimize the cost of browsing and downloading. The Chinese firm says that similar to its mobile counterpart, UC Browser for PC prides itself on speed. It also has a series of mobile-inspired features such as predicting user behavior and preloading pages, infinite scrolling, and compressing sites on the server side so…