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Chinese Online Video Sharing, Where Is The Way Out?

[Translate] In the VC panel of Paypal X China event a few days ago, we were discussing the monetization of web service with four famous VC panelists from Qiming, Gobi, RedPoint and Lightspeed. As the moderator I threw the question to four VCs: How do you think of Chinese online video-sharing market? Some are optimistic,...

Five Minutes, Inventor of Happy Farm Raised $3.5 Millions

[Translate] Confirmed by Season Xu, his Five Minutes, the development company of the very popular social game Happy Farm has raised $3.5 millions from DFJ Dragon Fund. And the valuation of this company is also reported to reach RMB 100million. DFJ also invested the leading Chinese Wiki, Hudong. In some sense, 2009 of China web...

Announcing ChinaMode Awards, It Is For China Internet in 2009

[Translate] The Internet not only changes but also moulds our current society. It has brought us not only massive economic benefits and commercial conveniences but also an amazing boost in convenience and access to information. It has released a tidal wave of creativity, activity and grassroots collaboration, with individuals coming together like never before to...

Salute! Jack Ma and Alibaba's Cloud Service

[Translate] There are some superstars in Chinese web. Pony Ma who created Tencent and Robin Li who built Baidu, are great Chinese entrepreneurs, but some people still question about them and remind us of the ICQ and Google. Kaifu Lee probably is another one as he has millions of Chinese students fans. Lee is indeed...

Innovative Digital Marketing Campaign- Win a Trip to Sydney

It is not often when I get quite excited about a particular campaign. But here is one that captured my imagination. A fully digital, multi-channeled performance marketing campaign being run by Accor Hotels. Not only is there a great prize on offer; a trip to Sydney for two people from China the approach is fresh...

With GPS Equipped, TouchMedia Finally Getting Useful

[Translate] If you come to China, especially to tier-1 cities like Shanghai, Beijing etc, you need make sure you are ready for one thing: Outdoor Advertisement (or Outdoor Media if it sounds more friendly) which is everywhere, elevator, taxi, bus, parking lots, subway etc as well as those huge outdoor LCD displays. Thanks to FocusMedia...