.asia domain name to be launched
Foxnews reports that an organisation known as “DotAsia Organization Ltd” has had its application to run domain names in asian languages under the top level domain ‘.asia’ approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The domains will cover China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and other asian countries.
China's Baidu and MTV launch Internet music videos
Baidu, China’s biggest search engine, and MTV, a division of media giant Viacom, launch a new music video and television program service in China’s fast growing media market. The new service allows Internet users to view MTV music videos as well as Nickelodeon television programs directly from Baidu. The programs are free after watching advertisements […]
How will Google's YouTube do in China?
Google’s recent purchase of YouTube has caused quite a stir in the industry as Google moves from a search and adverstising company to a media company and that means Google’s YouTube won’t fly in China according to David Wolf at Silicon Hutong. “A Web site that plays videos but is not a licensed broadcaster? That’s […]
China blogs top 34 million
The popularity of blogs in China is evident by the growth of 30 times the number in the last four years. 17.5 million people fancy themselves blog writers while 55 million are regular readers. This comes from the latest report by the government’s China Internet Network Information Center. The Internet and blogs in particular, offers […]
Yahoo China sues software developer Qihoo.com
Alibaba.com’s Yahoo China filed a lawsuit against Qihoo.com for unfair-competition. The lawsuit was filed in Beijing’s No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court. Beijing Sanjiwuxian Internet Technology, which operates the Qihoo.com Web portal, distributes software , “360safe”, that urges users to unistall the Yahoo Toolbar which Qihoo.com reports as malware . Qihoo.com was founded by former Yahoo […]
China click fraud lands Baidu in court
Baidu, China’s leading search engine, is defending itself in court from charges of click fraud by online advertisters in China. Analysys International, an IT research firm, conducted a survey of 2,000 online advertisers in China and found that one-third believed they were victiims of click fraud. Anyalys conducted the survey after their click throughs grew […]
China Telecom and Microsoft team up with search
China Telecom Corp. Ltd., the largest Internet service provider in China, has partnered with the Microsoft to use Microsoft’s Windows Live Technology to power China Telecom’s 114 Web search network. According to media reports Microsoft will make its Live Search service available to China Telecom’s 25 million broadband customers and more than 80 million Internet […]
Murdoch planning Chinese MySpace
It seems Rupert Murdoch – owner of Fox Media and MySpace – plans on launching a Chinese version of MySpace. If it is half as popular there then I think we will se MySpace as the number one visitied site on the web. The growth of this site has been amazing.
Baidu considers a China listing
Baidu, China’s leading search engine with more than 50% of the China search engine market share, has had informal talks with China’s stock regulator as they are considering a domestic listing. Baidu, a big hit in their Nasdaq debut last year, saw its shares more than quadruple on its first day of trading in June […]
Online advertising in China grows 35%
China’s online advertising market reached RMB 3.23 billion in 2005, ($40 millionUSD) and is expected to reach RMB 4.39 billion ($55 million USD) in 2006 according to Analysys International. Search engine advertising is fueling this growth. Baidu, Sina, Sohu, and Yahoo! China, account for nearly 60% of of the market. Baidu and Google increased their […]