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Huawei books $8.8B profit for 2018 as consumer devices become top moneymaker

Despite an ongoing tussle with the U.S. government, signs look positive for Huawei. The Chinese firm just released its end of year report for 2018 and profit is up 25 percent to 59.3 billion CNY, or $

Duolingo can now help you learn Chinese

Earlier this year, Duolingo launched its Japanese course, which marked the first time the popular language learning service offered support for an Asian language. Since then, it’s also launched

Meet Mobike, a billion-dollar bike-sharing startup from China

Bike-sharing is the year’s hottest tech trend in China. The two biggest startups in the space have pulled in more than $1 billion cumulatively from VCs this year alone, and at valuations that ex

SwiftKey Eyes The Far East With Beta Launch Of Chinese On Android

Predictive keyboard maker SwiftKey, which is backed by investors including Index and Accel, has finally launched a Chinese beta of its software on the Android platform. This follows the launch of Sw

Visual Translation App Waygo Launches Japanese Support

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.waygoapp.com/">Waygo</a>, an app that lets you translate Chinese by hovering your phone over text, just added support for Japanese. Waygo recently won the SXSW 2014

Chinese clone the iPad, add a keyboard

Well know that’s an abonination. This Chinese crazy pad runs Windows and has a 10-inch screen running an Antom N450 processor. There’s no telling if this thing actually runs or not –

The Chinese iPhone surfaces

This, my friends, is probably what the Foxconn tragedy was about.

Chinese have knocked off the Kindle

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/founder-intl-ebook-readerimg_assist_custom.jpg" />Look familiar? Yep. The Chinese have knocked off the Kindle, creating a device that loo

Chinean Apple netbook: Great comfort!

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/4274187_0jpg.jpeg"> A Hong Kong OEM, Shenzhen Ltd. has just launched an "Apple" netbook with 10-inch display, VIA Nano processor, and Win

Shocking iPods surface again, along with shock mice, shock USB drives

I love finding stuff like this in Chinatown. Here in Seattle I found two awesome dart guns that fired those little orange darts like 30 feet. Amazing. And Geeksugar has located a collection of prank s

Rumor: Chinese text entry in iPhone on the way?

Now this is pretty cool. Build 5A258f of the new iPhone firmware will include Chinese input methods using handwriting recognition. Sadly, this only works with Chinese and not Japanese or even English.

iCool Phone Is Two Phones In One

World traveler, are ya? You, my friend, need the new iCool G700. It looks like a Vertu candybar phone on the outside, but flip it open and hoo boy, there’s another phone that looks like a Motoro

Want to Buy the Slinky Chair?

Remember the Slinky Chair? It was featured on the Feb. 8th episode of Diggnation, where Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht repeatedly mentioned the hot Japanese girl in the video. Actually, the girl is prob

Memory Cards for the Chinese New Year

If you were born in 1923, 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983 or 1995, you are considered a pig, according to the Chinese zodiac. And this year, when the Chinese celebrate 2007, the pig returns to prominence

The Microsoft Zune Has a Chinese Knockoff Already

Oriphe Industrial Limited apparently saw the leaked Microsoft Zune photos a few months back and quickly went to work. And by work, we mean stealing Microsoft’s design. Their MP4 music player loo