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Japan’s Index Corp. To Launch (Apparently Gigantic) Virtual Mall In China
Tokyo-based (and JASDAQ-listed) Index Corp. has decided to shake hands with Chinese retail giant Hualian to launch and run a large virtual shopping mall. Somehow surprisingly, Index, a leading mobile contents provider, will develop the site for Chi...
China’s Best-known Mobile Portal Founder Launches New Search Start-up
Beijing-based serial entrepreneur Nick Yang (杨宁, see this ChineseSavvy.com article for more about him) got his third start-up Wukong Search (唔箜搜索) [C, mobile] go live in Mainland China. In prior to the third start-up, he founded the pop...
New Japanese IME Has Come From The Origin Of Chinese Characters
Following Google’s Japanese IME (input method editor) newly introduced in the beginning of this month, the Japanese subsidiary of China’s largest website search portal Baidu[C] also introduced a new one for our language, which is named ...
Chinese Domain Name Authority Closes 699 Accounts In 4 Days; No More Individual Registration
On Monday, CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center) suspended 699 .cn domain names which seemed to be inappropriately used for porn websites just in four days since they had set up a hot line to receive anonymous reports about the malicious...
Yahoo China Closes Online Photo Album, Users Are Ready To Sue Against It
Yahoo! China[C] shut down its online photo album service last Thursday, and it hit tens of thousands of Chinese people using the service. The users are blaming and demanding to get their photos back to their hands, Beijing Daily[C] reports. The...
Japan’s IVP Invests $1.5 million In Chinese Social Gaming Company Rekoo
One of Japan’s most famous independent venture capital firms, Infinity Venture Partners (IVP), seems to have a big interest in the social gaming space and China. IVP already has a number of startups with this profile in their portfolio, and t...
Japan’s CyberAgent Sets Up $22.7 Million Fund For Startups In East Asia
The more you talk with Japanese VCs and entrepreneurs these days, the more you hear “China” as the next target for investing money or establishing a subsidiary. Now Japanese web behemoth CyberAgent (listed at the Tokyo Stock Exchange) sa...
Sunshine Ranch: More Than 2M Japanese Users Join China-made Flash Game In 2 Months
Mainland China’s 2nd largest social game maker Rekoo[C] launched a flash-based social game on Japan’s largest social network service Mixi[J], which earned more than two million users in less than two months since the launch, and it̵...
Chinese Government To Shut Out Foreign Online Games
China’s national copyright administration[C] announced the government would ban the market entry of online game services which are operated by non-Chinese service providers. According to the country’s state-run news website Xinhua-Net, t...
IVP Fund Invests In China’s Largest Mobile SNS
A Tokyo-based independent venture capital unit investing in tech start-up companies, Infinity Ventures LLP[J] announced today it had invested approximately USD2.1M (JPY200M) in WAPTX (registered in Cayman Islands) running China’s largest mobile...
Japan’s Largest Q&A Site Launches Official Chinese Edition
On Tuesday, Shibuya-based Q&A portal site OK Wave officially released its Chinese edition[C] in association with Chubun Industry[J] which publishes a Chinese-language newsletter[C] and provides a multi-channel IPTV service[C] for Chinese resident...
Keitai Shousetsu export: China to get 100 Japanese cell phone novels
A big web trend from Japan that gained traction in China is now poised to become even bigger: Keitai Shousetsu (cell phone novels). These novels, which are not only being read on cell phones but also written on them, are hugely popular in Japan where...
Search engine Baidu to offer e-commerce support in China for Japanese companies
Another case of Chinese and Japanese web companies shaking hands. Chinese search engine Baidu is a super-power in its home market and has, as the company’s first regular service outside of China, launched a Japanese version (Baidu.jp) back in 2...
Chinese newspapers (in their entirety) to come to the iPhone in Chinese, English and Japanese
Beijing-based mega technology conglomerate Peking University Founder Group Corporation has announced a new iPhone application that will make it possible for iPhone users in Japan to read five major Chinese newspapers in their entirety. Founder’...
SMG and Alibaba: SoftBank strengthens ties with major Chinese web players
SoftBank seems to be pretty bullish about the growing Chinese web market, which is no wonder as there are about 300 million web users in that country (China has the biggest Internet population in the world). The Japanese technology behemoth formed tw...
