Xinhua, a prominent news agency in China, andChina Mobile, the world’s biggest telecommunications network, has joined forces to create a new search engine calledPanguso. The interesting bit? It’s controlled by China’s rulingCommunist Party. The new search engine will take advantage of Xinhua’s capacity to collect information and provide accurate search results and relevant content, while also utilizing China Mobile’s position in the cellphone market to enable users to send search results from computers to phones using SMS....

Panos Panay is moving on up at Microsoft. The man most associated with the Surface device line was just promoted to executive vice president and added to the company’s senior leadership team, according toBloomberg. The means he’ll be one of the primary advisers to CEO Satya Nadella. Panay, who has been with Microsoft since 2004, is generally seen as the ‘father’ of the Surface product family. His passionate product presentations have made him the most well-known of Microsoft employee besides Nadella and Xbox’s Phil Spencer....

If you’re one of those lucky people that lives in an area serviced by Verizon’s 4G/LTE Internet, it’s a happy time for you. While many have been using the service (and trying to avoid overages of the5 GB cap) quite happily, very few of those have been Mac users. Verizon’s VZAccess software simply didn’t support the Mac until recently. We’ve gotten our hands ontothe Pantech versionand, on first impressions, things look very good....

PapayaMobile, a Beijing-based social gaming network, aims to introduce Western Android game developers to the Chinese market with its ‘Gateway to China’ program. China is a challenging market for game developers due to the enforced regulations, not to mention the lack of Android Marketplace on all legally sold Android phones. However, being the world’s largest mobile population with more than 800 million mobile phones and a huge Android device market, it would surely be a waste for developers to ignore....

While most tablet-based reading apps are designed to replicate traditional paper-based books on a screen,Papercut, new from Sweden and UK-basedUsTwo, aims to enhance the experience with audio, video, images and animations that complement the text and help tell stories in new ways. Jonas Lennermo, Head of Publishing at UsTwo, says that Papercut is best thought of as a publishing platform, storefront and new genre in experimental storytelling. “We started with a simple question, ‘What happens with a book when you remove the pages?...