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Chinese Online Video Sharing, Where Is The Way Out?
In the VC panel of Paypal X China event a few days ago, we were discussing the monetization of web service with four famous VC panelists from Qiming, Gobi, RedPoint and Lightspeed. As the moderator I threw the question to four VCs: How do you think o...
Five Minutes, Inventor of Happy Farm Raised $3.5 Millions
Confirmed by Season Xu, his Five Minutes, the development company of the very popular social game Happy Farm has raised $3.5 millions from DFJ Dragon Fund. And the valuation of this company is also reported to reach RMB 100million. DFJ also invested ...
Announcing ChinaMode Awards, It Is For China Internet in 2009
The Internet not only changes but also moulds our current society. It has brought us not only massive economic benefits and commercial conveniences but also an amazing boost in convenience and access to information. It has released a tidal wave of cr...
Tencent Going Global With QQ International? Not Quite Right
Tencent quietely launched its QQ International version back in January this year when we threw the question: Will QQ be seriously looking into the global market in 2009? The answer seems an obviously yes, as QQ International basically is the first En...
Social Media Marketing is Hot in Shanghai
So tonight, I was speaking at the Dr3 event in Shanghai (this session was focused on Social Media Marketing) and I have got to say the level of interest took me by surprise. With over 80 people in the room, representing industries from tourism to ...
99 Days Passed, Microblogging Service Digu Is Back With Micro Social Game
It was absolutely a surprise for me. Being silence for 99 days, Digu, one of the most popular microblogging service is finally back in operation. What I heard about those microblogging services was not positive at all in the past a few days, though. ...
Qian8ao, The Chinese Online Finance Service Claims 1.5 Millions Users
Mint, a 38-person staff startup offering free online personal finance service is recently acquired by Intuit. The acquisition is valued $170 million. A big win to Mint’s 28 years old CEO, Aaron Patzer, and is also an encouragement to tens of ot...
Sohu Released iPhone App for Its SNS, New Battle For Chinese SNSs Is On
Bai, the three-months old SNS operated by one of the largest portals Sohu is now available on iPhone (link to App Store). I tried it, not good as Facebook’s iPhone application yet, but it is neat and has all the basic features I need on mobile:...
Siondo Partners With PC Stars To Enter RMB40.6 Billion Chinese SaaS Market
Siondo, founded by Christian Steiner (CEO) and Jason Devenney (CTO) is a London-based SaaS vendor aims to be a “One Stop Shop” for extensible SaaS business applications. PC Stars Corporation is one of China’s biggest online software distributor...
Where Is The Next Virtual World? Interview With Eric Ye, CEO Of UWorld
Probably two years ago, Virtual Worlds might be the hottest concept in the web industry and the Internet space were impressed by those pioneers, such as SecondLife, HiPiHi, UWorld, etc… Now the hype is gone and it’s hard to see coverages ...
Baidu Announces “Box Computing” Platform, Exciting And Confusing
Video Interview With Co-founder of Yeeyan, The Leading Translation Community
[Ed: Two months ago, we announced MOBINODE TV, a video blog focus on Chinese tech industry. Nearly 20 video interviews with local startups have been produced since then, and most of them were in Chinese. We said that we would launch its English ver...
Is Tencent Opening Up? Third Party Applications Now Available in QZone
It Is Not Only For Kids, Tencent Is To Launch Rebate Service
After 3-months development, Tencent’s new service Fanli (Rebate) is now in private test (right now, you need have your QQ number whitelisted in order to login). Here is what we’ve learnd from a call with its product manager, Richard. 1. T...
Breaking: DeNA, Japanese Leading Mobile Social Networks Buying Chinese Tianxia
In this post our editor published a month ago, we were asking DeNA: What does an advanced Japanese mobile commerce and entertainment provider do in China? Despite Wang Yong, CEO of DeNA China was telling us: We (DeNA) will not be able to copy our suc...
Announcement: MOBINODE Goes TV
I am thinking of an tech video-blog for a long time. In this post, I said, Blog is not just about text and image, and the audience needs audio and video too. Today, MOBINODE.tv, initiated by Cindy, Snake and Boyuan is ready for public, and on behalf ...
The Evolution of Dragon’s Web: Copy-to-China, Reformation, Innovation and More
According to the latest report from CNNIC, we surely see a huge potential on web and mobile market in China. A Massive Market might be the most common description for the Dragon’s web. : 316million Internet users, ~2.9million Chinese web sites...
Maxthon 3.0 Is Coming, Supporting Both Webkit And IE
Time is flying. It’s been already over two years since I interviewed with Maxthon last time. The Chinese browser market is not that noisy these days, although there are some good new-comers such as TheWorld Browser, Green Browser, 360 Browser, ...
Abang.com: Don’t Bring Your Baggage to China
There have been so many road kills on the digital highway to China: practically all foreign companies entering the Chinese market have failed miserably. Abang.com, the Chinese subsidiary of About.com the successful network of network of expert ...
Digu, When Twitter Meets Entertainment
Despite the fact that none of Chinese twitters, Fanfou or Jiwai or Zuosa is able to rock China, even TaoTao, the Tencent’s microblogging service is still at the stage of educating the market, another twitter liker, called Digu (means: whisper) ...
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...
Hello OpenLanguage And Vertical Open Platform
Wikipedia defines the language laboratory as an audio or audio-visual installation used as an aid in modern language teaching. I still remember the language lab in my university comprises a teacher console which is connected to a number of rows of st...
PQLabs, A Lightweight Multi-Touch Screen Technology From Shanghai
Like many of you, I am an iPhone lover and always dreaming of having a Microsoft Surface in my room which I know sounds luxury. I love the cutting-edge multi-touch technology, but as a matter of fact, except iPhone and new Macbook, I never got chance...
Presentation: Word of Mouth Lanscape in China
A presentation about Internet Word of Mouth Landscape of China. Q3 WP Topic one-The Chinese IWOM Landscape_EN View more presentations or upload your own. (tags: china iwom)...
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...
IMQQ, Tencent Quietly Launched Its International Portal For QQ
With more than 690 million registered users, 360 million monthly active users and 130 million daily users, QQ is the most popular instant messaging service, well, for Chinese. As a foreigner who is interested in QQ and wants to further understand thi...
ActiveX Regulations in South Korea (revisited)
ActiveX control is widely used by Internet Explorer to load applications or components in Windows. It’s a useful piece of control, but is not without issues. In fact, ActiveX is known for security problems. Despite security short-comings, Activ...
Numbers on China’s Internet Growth
Another year of amazing growth for China’s Internet. Today CNNIC, China’s Internet Governing Body, released the 23rd China Internet Development Statistics Report. Let’s take a look at the numbers. 1. 298 million is the number of Int...
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....
2009: the year KaiXin beats Xiaonei and Chinese SNS fizzle?
2009 is gonna be fizzling for most. Maybe even Chinese SNS. I doubt that Alexa’s figure is the best judgement of Kaixin001 (chart below), but having said that, the real figure might not be so far off. As we can see, the daily page view of KaiXi...
