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China Internet Watch Dec-02-07

December 2, 2007

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 processed with either Taiwan currency or [...]

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Chinese Instant Messenger For Ladies

October 1, 2007

According to iResearch’s latest user behavior study, the top 5 IM in China are:

QQ (Tencent)
MSN Messenger
Taobao IM (Alibaba)
Fetion (China Mobile)
TM (Tencent)

The most influential IM to women in China is Taobao IM; 48% of its users are female. About the other IM:

MSN Messenger: 46.8%
QQ: 41.8%
TM: 35.2%
Fetion: 33%

Surprisingly, Fetion came out of nowhere and it suddenly becomes [...]

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China’s Twitter Clone From Tencent

September 13, 2007

There are already plenty of Twitter clones in China and so far none of them are popular. On August 13, the most popular free instant messaging application QQ’s provider in China, Tencent Holdings released Taotao in public beta testing.
According to iResearch, Tencent’s Q2 income has achieved more than $100 million dollars, among which there are [...]

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