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Taobao.com Expanding from C2C to B2C Online Mall

Taobao.com, C2C branch of Alibaba Group, achieved 43.3 billion yuan (over US$6 billion) total online sales in year 2007; it has recently launched its B2C section: Taobao Mall, giving numerous well-known brands such as Nokia, Lancome, Chivas…an online channel to reach more customers. Its objective is to build a 24-hour open online mall selling all [...]

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Baidu Partners with Omniture

From RedlineChina: The alliance will provide technology solutions to allow international companies to access advertising resources on China’s most popular search engine. Pearl Research believes the partnership will help Baidu to increase its visibility to western clients and increase its ad sales while diversifying its revenue streams. Baidu is famous for its less transparent algorithm [...]

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United States V.S. China on Internet Influence of Purchase

Some interesting figures from a research firm Netpop: Internet as a tool for research or purchase products: 73% Products in US versus 93% in China UGC (User Generated Content) is an influence for 19% of respondents in the US versus 58% in China. 58% of the population in US has broadband (74 million) versus 10% [...]

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$350 for Dell 27″ UltraSharp Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor

I’m not kidding! Of course, that’s not generosity from Dell. The “offer” was from Dell China’s website on Feb 15. Due to some error of its system error, this awesome 27″ UltraSharp Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor was priced at RMB2515 yuan (about US$350), which was originally priced at RMB7599 yuan (about US$1064). And, this monitors [...]

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Google China: Search + Greetings + SMS

Today is my birthday! And, it happens to be a holiday in China too, “Yuanxiao Festival” or “Lantern Festival”: Yuanxiao Festival or the Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, fourteen days after Chinese New Year’s Day (around the end of January and the beginning of [...]

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China Advertising Market By Media Type

According to the statistic data from State Administration for Industry and Commerce, the total volume of China advertising market in 2005 was RMB 141.63 billion, 12% higher than RMB 126.46 billion in 2004. Here is the breakdown of China Advertising Market by Media Type between 1987 and 2005: (unit: RMB 100 million) We can see [...]

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China Internet Users Top 210 Million

According to the latest report from CNNIC, total number of Internet users in China has achieved 210 million by December 2007, among which there are 163 million broadband users and 50.4 million accessing from mobile devices.

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China Internet Watch Dec-16-2007

Version one of Live Search Maps for China is launched. The application was built in China with a focus on getting the features most relevant to Chinese customers out first. Business search, Collections, and public transit features were emphasized, covering over 100 cities with 7 million business listings. I tested; it is pretty impressive. I [...]

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Asia Pacific Consumers Optimistic About Next Year

MasterCard surveyed 5,411 consumers in 13 markets around Asia Pacific region and found out Asia Pacific consumers remain optimistic about the coming year despite global financial market volatility. The MasterCard Index, derived from a survey, measures consumer confidence on a scale from zero to 100, with 100 being most optimistic. Vietnam, with an index score [...]

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China Multiplayer Online Game Market

The 2007 China Massively Multiplayer Online [MMO] game market size is about four (4) times as big as the China online search market.The 2007 China online search market is about $0.4 billion in size, of which Baidu ( BIDU) has about 61% market share, Google (GOOG) has about 24%, and Yahoo! (YHOO) has about 10%. [...]

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Top Choice Search Engines In China

According to CNNIC‘s recent report, 74.5% people take Baidu as their top choice search engine, here is a summary: Baidu: 74.5% Google: 14.3% Sogou.com: 2.8% Sina search: 1.7% YouDao.com (163)

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Where Did Google Get The Idea of Scrolling Ads?

Credit: instant fundas  Some bloggers discovered Google’s new scrolling ads for adsense, for example here, here and here. So, how or where did Google get this scrolling ads idea for its adsense? Let me guess…Baidu? As a leader in search market in China, Baidu has advertising system for both search and content network. The picture [...]

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YouTube’s Efforts In Chinese Markets

YouTube has launched its localized version for Taiwan market last week. The new site YouTube.com.tw uses traditional Chinese focusing on local made contents from four Taiwan media partners.In addition YouTube has also launched local site for Hong Kong in traditional Chinese. Is China the next? Maybe; maybe not. There are more than a hundred YouTube [...]

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China Internet Watch Dec-09-07

The9, an online game operator, announced partnership with a beverage company “tianwo” on dynamic marketing. Under the partnership, tiaowo would produce soft drinks with the characters of the online games printed on its bottles. Sina and Google announced strategic partnership on Monday. Sina would benefit from Google’s search technologies for its search and shared profit [...]

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China Internet Watch Dec-02-07

Top 4 portal sites (sina, sohu, 163, tencent) Q3 online ad sales achieved 100 million USD for the first time, according to iResearch. Sina: 45.8m Sohu: 31.5m 163/Netease: 11.4m Tencent: 19.3m Microsoft launched short domain names W.cn and 9.cn Alipay (a China PayPal, under Alibaba Group) enters Taiwan online payment market However, transactions can’t be [...]

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