By 2022 there will be 6.1 billion mobile subscribers, led by huge growth in less mature markets. Not only will this reshape the mobile industry as we currently know it, but it will reshape how we work and socialise to fit with a mobile-first world. Those 6.1 billion smartphone users will make up some 70 percent of the world’s population - showing just how central mobile technology will become to all our lives.

As APUS continues to grow with new features and new products added to the APUS User System, there are many important decisions we have to make.

Chinese app maker APUS just made an unusual announcement: India is its fastest growing market with 16 percent users. Only 5 percent of its users are in China. So the company is planning to invest upwards of US$44 million into India, and will go on a hiring spree to get a 200-people team going in its new office in the country.

Until a couple of years ago, Chinese startups were little known in India but are familiar names now. The best known in the world’s fastest growing smartphone market are of course the smartphone makers like Xiaomi and Lenovo. Alibaba and Tencent have made waves more recently with their mega investments in Indian startups Paytm and Practo. But it’s the Android utility app makers like APUS and Cheetah who have notched up the most users in a country where 90 percent of smartphones run on Android.

APUS Group, a Chinese Android app developer, has laid out a Rs 300 crore plan to invest in Indian tech startups and that will create 500 jobs and solidify ties with the Indian startup community. In looking to build long-term connections with a number of Indian startups, APUS is also hoping to better connect with users in the world’s most important emerging mobile Internet market.

When you are using your android smartphone, have you ever encountered a Christmas event? You shake your phone and you get a $10 Amazon Gift Card? Doesn’t that sound amazing? Isn’t that like free lunch?

BEIJING, Dec. 21, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, users of APUS User System (previously known as APUS Launcher) have witnessedthe year's biggest APUS Discovery update. Based on your current location and distance, APUS Discovery can introduce trending apps to you, including video apps, music apps, news apps, E-books, as well as other lifestyle apps.

BEIJING, Dec. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- On November 26, APUS Group, the world's fastest growing mobile internet company, announced the foundation of APUS Fund in India. It will be led by APUS Group and also include Northern Light Venture Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Chengwei Ventures LLC, SIG Global and Qiming Venture Partners. The initial investment will be 3 billion rupees and focus on mobile Internet innovation projects in the Indian market.

BEIJING, Dec. 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- With the sweeping trend of the globalization of the Internet, especially mobile Internet, the Chinese Internet industry is playing a bigger role all over the world. How can Chinese Internet companies seize the opportunities in emerging markets and developed to the industry leaders of Global mobile Internet?

Chinese entrepreneur and Founder/ CEO Tao Li of the Apus group and the eponymous user system is in India with a band of five VCs from China (who have also invested in APUS), to get a feel for the market and early stage startups they could work with.

This is the darkest Friday. Only one night, the romantic Paris was overwhelmed by horror and catastrophe. On the evening of November 13, an appalling terrorist attack took place in Paris and astonished the world. It is the 911 of Europe, it is a disaster for Paris, yet it is suffering for the world.

BEIJING, Nov. 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- On November 9, 2015, information technology company APUS Group announced their latest investment in Beijing-based Smart SV, the innovation incubator founded by Beijing Smart Silicon Valley Technology. Its goal is to develop the base for a super entrepreneurial community.

BEIJING, Nov. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- APUS Group announced on October 31st that with the number of APUS User System users exceeding 250 million this September, the total number of APUS users has hit the 510 million mark. The APUS product cluster includes APUS User System, APUS Booster+, APUS Browser, APUS Message Center, APUS Theme, and more.

BEIJING, Oct. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that Cheetah's lawsuit against APUS cannot go forward because Cheetah's attempt at service of process "was defective." It has now been 5 months since Cheetah Mobile launched its lawsuit.

7th October 2015: APUS Group, the world’s fastest growing mobile internet services has become the first android user system to be compatible with the latest version of Android 6.0(Android Marshmallow) released by Google last month. APUS in support with the upgraded version of marshmallow intends to provide its growing users base of 250 million with an improved user interface by making it smooth, easy, and convenient. With this initiative all the android users access to APUS launchers.

APUS chooses InMobi as global monetization partner; InMobi to help APUS grow in India

Indian mobile advertising firm InMobi said on Wednesday it is partnering APUS, a Chinese start-up that customizes Android software, in an alliance that InMobi expects will help it reach 500 million new users in China and other countries by 2016.

BEIJING, Sept. 3 – China’s APUS Group, a Beijing-based mobile phone user system company, announced that it will focus its efforts on tapping the Indian market, where the mobile Internet industry is growing at one of the fastest rates in the world.

BEIJING, Aug. 25, 2015 – APUS Group, a Beijing-based utility app developer, entered the Wall Street Journal’s Billion Dollar Startup Club this August, becoming the world’s youngest ever “unicorn” company.