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iPad custom duty cut by half – lower to 10%
[Translate] When you travel with your iPad to China, you can be taxed RMB 1000 in custom duty, which is 20% of the item’s price in China. But a new law has just passed and lowered the custom duty of computer, camera and video camera to 10%. And it means you need to pay only...
Can I Withdraw RMB from Paypal Account in Chinese Bank? Yes, It Will be Possible
[Translate] Paypal China has re-positioned itself in Chinese online payment market. It is now focusing on cross-border e-commerce, avoiding the direct competition with Alipay in domestic market. It’s a smart strategy, but there is a hurdle which is quite annoying, for cross-border e-commerce owner, they still can not draw RMB directly from their paypal account...
China's express delivery service gets overheat
[Translate] I found out about this personally when I bought some cat food online. Usually, the delivery boy will come the next day after my order. But, this time, the pet shop owner said there was no longer any express delivery. Just to make sure my cats do not starve to dead, he came...
How Big Is Tencent? Stats May Tell
[Translate] Tencent is big, everyone knows it. But how big is it? We found some latest stats which can give you the idea. By end of September, 2010 Tencent QQ active registered users – 636.6million QZone (Tencent’s SNS) active registered users – 481.2millions Value-Added web service paid subscribers (monthly) – 67.3millions Value-Added mobile service paid...
Top Sina Microblogger gets 5 million followers
[Translate] Lady Gaga is the most popular Twitter user with over 7.8 million followers. Similarly, in China, the most popular microblog user is a film and TV actress, Yao Chen. She has over 5 million people following her on Sina Weibo or Sina Microblog in just 6 months. Here is an article about it in local...
Social networking birth control in China?
[Translate] Interesting news stories came out of American media in the past few days which played with the idea that social media and networking are the cause of more people getting into bed or relationships. Reuters article said “Social networking leads to faster sex?” and ABC News said “Facebook as Foreplay? Survey Says Social Media...
Rumour – Lenovo creates Application and Services Group
[Translate] Lenovo just announced recently that they have created a new business unit called Mobile, Digital Home, which will now manage devices such as LePhone, Tablets and TV. “We are putting the focus and investments in place to fully capitalize on these opportunities to drive growth in our business today and for many years to...
Line Phone, It is Designed by China
[Translate] From Made in China, to Designed by China, it seems still a long long way to go for China. We are always looking for innovation in Chinese tech industry, unfortunately, there is not much there. But we have the hope. Invited by Hunan University, I attended the 2nd “Lotus Prize” International Industrial Design and...
CNN Reports: ChinaMode Awards – China Awards Homegrown Innovation
[Translate] [Our annual event ChinaMode Awards ceremony was successfully held in early this week (24th). The following article is written by Lara Farrar and published on CNNGo.] Innovation is a precarious word in China, especially when it comes to technology. There are those who say Chinese companies lack innovation, only copying ideas for Internet or...
Runes Soft – CRM
[Translate] Beijing based Runes Soft (http://www.runes-soft.com/) develops customer relationship management (CRM) system for mid-sizes companies in China. The company was founded in late 2008 by four software engineers, Li Hui, Li Jiajun, Meng Guangyu, and Jin Shunlong. “Two of the founders worked in a firm which makes software development tool. They use it to develop a...
WhatsApp Kik? They are cloning us in China, that's what!
[Translate] With the rise of free mobile instant messaging service apps like WhatsApp and Kik, China has cloned them as quickly as Kik’s real time messaging works. The differences between WhatsApp and Kik are: WhatsApp pulls contacts from your mobile phone but Kik pulls contacts from your email Kik tells you when a message has...
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