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UCWeb says its new mobile search service has hit 20% market share in China and angered Baidu

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by on May 5, 2014 at 5:55 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, mobile search

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Shenma, a mobile search engine that Chinese browser-maker UCWeb recently formed in a joint venture with e-commerce giant Alibaba, already has a market penetration rate of over 20 percent and monthly active users of over 100 million, UCWeb CEO Yu Yongfu said at GMIC Beijing today. Shenma was announced last week but Yu said it has been in operation for a month or so. The cooperation between UCWeb and Alibaba actually dates back to four years ago as a service within UC Browser, Yu added. In addition to semantic app search — via a single interface that lets users search China’s many fragmented…

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Tumblr founder David Karp says Yahoo has ‘lived up to everything it promised’

May05
by on May 5, 2014 at 5:26 am
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It’s been almost one year since Yahoo announced that it had acquired Tumblr for $1.1 billion, and David Karp, founder and head of Tumblr, says that its new owner has “lived up to everything they promised.” Speaking in an interview with the New York Times, Karp said that Yahoo and its CEO Marissa Meyer have supported his business with additional resources — Tumblr’s roster has more than doubled to 220 staff — and have remained hands off. “We’re our own shop. We have our own leadership, and we’re doing things our own way,” Karp said. Tumblr hosts a network of 180 million blogs, but still…

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Google expands its Shopping Express same-day delivery service to Los Angeles and New York

May05
by on May 5, 2014 at 4:37 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, google shopping express

Google launched Shopping Express in San Francisco last year, and now it is expanding its same-day delivery service outside of the Bay Area and into West Los Angeles and Manhattan, New York. Available via Android and iOS mobile apps and the Web (google.com/express), Shopping Express brings groceries and other purchases from local stores to your door at a time that is convenient to you that day. Google charges no mark-up or fee, and the service can be used to claim in-store loyalty points and discounts against reward cards. Google says it is working with the same retailers as it does in the Bay Area, they include Costco, L’Occitane, Walgreen’s…

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Android KitKat continues its slow and steady growth after reaching 8.5% adoption

May05
by on May 5, 2014 at 3:59 am
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KitKat, the newest version of Google’s Android mobile operating system, continues to make slow and steady progress after reaching 8.5 percent adoption among Android smartphones and tablets that use the Google Play app store each month, according to the latest data from the search giant. Adoption of the seven-month-old software among “active” Android devices — as Google refers to them — is up from 5.3 percent at the beginning of April, but KitKat still sits in the shadow of Jelly Bean, its predecessor, which accounts for 60.8 percent across its three separate versions. The rate of Jelly Bean installations did drop slightly over…

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