According to the Internet Guide 2007, a recently released report from the Internet Society of China, Internet users in China spent RMB 276.76 billion ($35.5 billion) on Internet services in 2006. This represents an increase of nearly 50 percent over … Read More
Google and China Mobile announced a joint venture in setting up an online search technology for China Mobile, a carrier with roughly 300 million subscribers. The new services are expected to be launched early this year. The partnership will include … Read More
According to Analysys International, an Internet based provider of business information, the China search engine market will see a compound annual growth of more than 30% from 2006 to 2010 based on its recently released report “China Search Engine Market … Read More
Yahoo! China sued Qihoo back in late September of this year for unfair competition. The lawsuit claimed that Qihoo software, known as “360safe”, prompts users to de-install the Yahoo! Toolbar. The prompt made users believe that the toolbar was “malware”, … Read More
US based online auction company EBay Inc. is exiting the China market. eBay said its China-based subsidiary, eBay EachNet, and TOM Online will enter into a joint venture. where eBay will take 49 percent stake and Tom Online Inc., an … Read More
Chinese search site Baidu.com has signed a deal with Microsoft to sell advertising for MSN in China. Baidu’s paid search ads will appear on the Chinese versions of MSN, Live Search and other Micrsoft web properties. Baidu who recently announced … Read More
People’s Daily Online has reported that Baidu is launching a blog search engine. Just under 20 million people use blogs in the Chinese language.
Google Inc. announced Co-President Johnny Chou ( Zhou Shaoning) will resign at the end of the year in order to pursue personal interests. Mr. Chou, Google’s Greater China co-president in charge of sales and business development, first joined the company … Read More
Wall Street Journal is reporting that Baidu plans to enter the Japanese market by 2007. “We carefully studied the Japanese market,” said Mr. Li, who is also Baidu’s chairman. “It’s primarily dominated by two players we are very familiar with. … Read More
I earlier posted that China blocked and unblocked Wikipedia and that it was now available in most of China. That information was wrong and none other than the founder of Wikipedia, Jimbo Wales, set me straight. I won’t try to … Read More
Chen Hui, founder of China’s leading pornographic website, “Pornographic Summer” was sentenced to life and fined 100,000 yuan (about $12,500). Mr. Chen is only 28 years old. Eight other people involved with the site were sentenced to between 13 months … Read More
Wikipedia, a Web-based free content encyclopedia, has recently been blocked again in China according to the Information World Review. Despite the fact that Wikipedia is now accessible throughout most of China, there are reports that is still completely blocked in … Read More
Baidu.com (BIDU), the leading Chinese language search engine, hit a new 52-week high of $108.28. Baidu’s was established in 2000 by co- founders, Robin Li and Eric Xu and the initial public offering was August 5, 2005 opening at $66 … Read More
Baidu Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU), the leading Chinese-language search engine and eBay EachNet, the Chinese arm of the online auction company Ebay, announced a multi-year agreement to cooperate in advertising, on-line payment and a co-branded toolbar. According to the agreement, Baidu … Read More
At the first Internet Governance Forum in Athens, Google is expected to defend it’s presence in China saying that it does more good than harm since it gets more information to more people. Delegates from China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Syria, … Read More
