That’s the average amount of time, the company said, that users spend each day on its Facebook, Instagram and Messenger platforms (and that’s not counting the popular messaging app WhatsApp).
Just days after Baidu chief executive Robin Li said the company had "an excellent start to 2016," its public image has taken a huge battering.
A handful of Internet writers made a killing last year as screen adaptations of online novels such as "Nirvana in Fire" and "The Ghouls" scored phenomenal audience ratings and box office sales.
Worried about losing traffic on their smartphone apps while people are distracted by Spring Festival celebrations, Chinese internet firms vied to keep users tuned in with cash gifts.
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Weibo’s move comes a couple weeks after the revelation that Twitter intends to get rid of its trademark cap as well.
As China hosts World Internet Conference, attended by senior global technology company executives on Wednesday, we take a quick look at internet’s growing importance on mainland.
Company chief tells users case is not designed for people who charge their phone every day, and that lump is a design feature
Facebook was built to bring people together. Now it wants to help people break up.
Qatar-based telecom operator Ooredoo Myanmar has offered free data services for WeChat Myanmar app under a partnership program between the two communication apps, an official report said Tuesday.
Hackers claiming to have stolen data from AshleyMadison.com, a website that facilitates hook-ups between would-be adulterers, have allegedly released information of more than 36 million user accounts.
Microsoft will allow Chinese users to upgrade to its latest Windows 10 operating system, launched Wednesday, through Chinese tech firms Tencent, Qihoo 360, Baidu and Lenovo.
Smartphone banking registration in South Korea jumped 30 percent in 2014 in tandem with growing usage of smartphones, central bank data showed Wednesday.
On Sunday night, many WeChat users found in their WeChat Moments news feed an update from a new yet long-awaited friend—advertisement.
As China develops its own smartphone operating systems to beef up security, cellphone users must also provide feedback to help develop the homegrown products, industry players said.
The war between Sina Weibo and Tencent's WeChat, two big players in China's social media game, escalated when Sina Weibo began to ban users promoting WeChat on its service on late Tuesday.
Twenty-nine major Chinese websites have promised to better manage the comments of their users as authorities call for a clean Internet.