More than 3,800 file sharers in HongKong, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland and Argentina are facing criminal charges in this fourth wave of the international crackdown on piracy. The crackdown was initiated by the International Federation of Phonogram and Videogram Producers (IFPI) on behalf of the music recording industry. The 33 in
As the Chinese search engine battle heats up, Alibaba’s Jack Ma sets his sights on the gold medal with a relaunch of Yahoo! China. Goodbye portal, hello search! According to investment bank Piper Jaffray, daily searches by Internet users in China this year are at 360 million and are expected
Autonomy launched its service of a joint venture with China Netcom Broadband (CNCBB), one of China’s largest Internet companies, in an effort to upstage Google and Yahoo. This joint venture allows the Chinese to search the Internet for news and video clips from 25 local and national TV companies. Autonomy
Online payments in China have been capped to 1,000RMB (US$123.53) per transaction in a fraud prevention measure. A variety of obstacles besides the legal, regulatory and political issues, stand in the way of assured e-commerce success. A lack of credit card usage, network security concerns , a fragmented distribution network
Baidu.com saw nearly triple sales growth but watched its stock prices drop over concerns that they were rising too quickly. Baidu entered the stock market in August and saw it shares open at $27, trade as high as $153, but is trading today at $69. Goldman Sachs analyst, Anthony Noto
Search Engine Strategies will hold its first conference in China next March 17 & 18th in Nanjing. The city of Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu Province and is located about 5 hours west of Shanghai. The search scene in China is heating up with Baidu the current leader holding
Goolge map services had previously listed Taiwan as a province of China creating an uproar in Taiwan and protests from legislators and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). Google has has now changed that listing to read “Taiwan”. Google explained its usages came from internationally authoritative sources, to be consistent.
On the Google map service Taiwan is listed as a province of China which has sparked a protest from the legislators of the pro-independence Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU). They are asking the government to launch a formal protest and the public to demand an apology. Taiwan maintains it is a
Three ethnic Chinese were accused of making racist remarks on the Internet against members of the Malay community and will be charged under the Sedition Act. This is apparently the first time modern Singapore has used the Sedition Act since it gained independence from Malaysia in 1965. The Sedition Act