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Baidu Announces “Box Computing” Platform, Exciting And Confusing
Baidu’s Strategy to Cover the Whole Spectrum
A few weeks a go Baidu launched a new simplified portal service targeted at the Chinese elderly: 123.Baidu.com. It’s basically an old school link-list like Yahoo! started out back in the days. The site reminds me of another link-list, Hao123, a pop...
Rumors And Facts In China Web
Lots of meetings and talks last week when I was in Beijing. Here I wrap up some good ones (rumors and facts) to share with you. 1. Joe Chen, CEO of Oak Pacific Interactive, the owner of Xiaonei which is the leading SNS and the most successful Faceboo...
The Chinese Internet Industry: Mapping International Initiatives
The results of my research on the Internationalization of the Chinese Internet industry have showed that a few of China’s prominent Internet companies in different segments have climbed up the value chain. They are now - just like ie Lenovo, TCL an...
A Brief History (and Future) of Alibaba.com
Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, is reportedly the first to have launched a commercial website in China. In September 1995 Chinapages.com, a directory of companies, goes online and within ten years Ma grows it in one of the most successful Internet c...
Battle Royale 2009: AliBaba and Baidu
This battle comes in different names. Alipay versus Baidubao, TaoBao against Youa, search giant against C2C king. It’s been brewing big time. Alibaba’s TaoBao (in)famouly blocked Baidu crawlers, sighting purchased ranking as being unfair....
Baidu’s Adventure in Japan
Perhaps the most discussed topic during my dissertation trip in China was Baidu’s decision to enter the Japanese search engine market in January 2008. It was the first thing that came to mind of just about everyone I spoke with on the topic of my s...
Announcing OpenWeb.Asia Workgroup
We are very excited to announce the OpenWeb.Asia Workgroup (http://www.openweb.asia), the first workgroup in Asian Internet industry. OpenWeb.Asia Workgroup is a network of premium blogs focus on Asian Web industry. These sites build efficient channe...
