The Planetary Group, with partners Sonicbids, & Split-Works, announced the next Tour China event, which includes Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China. Iceland's Olafur Arnolds was this years winner, performing a nine date tour staring March 24th in Taipei, before heading to two nights in Hong Kong and then six additional dates throughout China.
The company's range of forthcoming services are backed by Shanghai Media Entertainment Group, a division of Shanghai Media Group, one of the most powerful and influential Chinese-language media and entertainment companies in the world.
Shazza Music brings to Hong Kong Ron Hawkins, a Canadian musician who rose to stardom in the 90's as the frontman for The Lowest of the Low. Ron is fresh off a national tour of Canada on which he performed with British rock legend Billy Bragg. On the tour Ron played many songs from his 2009 release, 10 Kinds of Lonely. March, 2010 marks his first tour of Asia.
Youku announced the official launch of the Youku Index, an online video ranking to track the most popular videos in real-time. Youku is the first Chinese online video site to provide such an information service.
Motorola announced a global alliance with Microsoft to deploy Bing services on Motorola devices powered by Android. The new offering, launching in China on smartphones in Q1, will provide consumers a choice when using search and map functions on their Android-based devices.
Joining established stars such as Muse, Motorhead, Stone Temple Pilots and a host of up and coming future ones including The XX, Neon Indian, Crystal Antlers and hundreds of others, two-piece bass and drum combo DP will be one of the first acts from Hong Kong to have ever graced the SXSW stage.
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