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Richard Wu of Wistone : play game for pleasure or for anger
[Translate] On Friday, I talked with a rather unusual game developer. He is Richard Wu of Wistone, a Beijing based game studio. He started developing games over 15 years ago, around 1996, when he was still in high school. He did not went to university, instead he started selling his games and made a living...
Happylatte – mobile social game company
[Translate] Beijing based Happylatte makes a very popular mobile game, called High Noon, on iPhone. In fact, it is the second most popular iPhone game from China, by revenue. High Noon is a shooting game, using the cowboy era as background. Players go to duel with each other, equipped with the many guns, accessories and customs...
Interview with Rekoo CEO Liu Yong
[Translate] I spoke to Rekoo’s CEO Liu Yong last week. He studied at Beijing University and graduated with a degree in Physics. Later he went to the United States for further study. He first got a master degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and then, a MBA from Kellog...
How to Run the Professional Social Network in China, Interview with Co-founders of UShi.cn
[Translate] We’ve been trying Professional Social Network in China for a couple of times. The copycats or Linkedin-likers failed: Linkist is dead; Wealink is running still but the team has shrinked to <10 people; Tianji used to claim 3millions users and now partners with a French professional social network Viadeo, which I don’t know what...
Alibaba – CEO resign because of frauds in B2B market
[Translate] On Monday, a major scandal broke out of Alibaba’s B2B market. Over 2000 of its paid member (called golden suppliers) deliberately cheated overseas buyers. The company launched an internal investigation and both its CEO, David Wei, and COO, Elvis Lee stepped down. Alibaba’s B2B market, Alibaba.com, doesn’t sell goods to the public, or arrange auctions like...
Rumor, Jack Ma Wants to Buy Ctrip
[Translate] Ctrip, the leading online travel service provider, was listed on NASDAQ in 2003; Alibaba Group, led by Jack Ma and owner of Alibaba.com, Taobao.com, Alipay and China Yahoo! now has about 22,000 employees across 60 cities and regions (wikipedia). According to this report, in a trip to U.S days ago, Jack Ma was meeting...
Tablet Mania! Opportunity for Developers
[Translate] I was at the Innovation Works Social Gaming talk on Monday and heard some interesting predictions by AJ Redmer, CEO of WeMadeEntertainment USA Inc., a huge game development company specializing in MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Games) such as the Legend of Mir. AJ presented on what he sees as the new frontier of opportunity...
Passion Can’t be Copied
[Translate] After attending quite a few conferences about tech start-ups in Beijing already, the topic of Chinese copying nearly always comes up and the Innovation Works Social Gaming talk on Monday was no exception. This topic is usually over-done but I heard one comment that struck me. The question about ‘How can boot strapped game...
To copy or not to copy
[Translate] To Shakespeare, the question is “to be or not to be”. To game developers in China, the questions is “to copy or not to copy”… Yesterday, I was at an event at Lee Kai Fu’s Innovation Works in Beijing. It is a round table discussion about games (social, mobile and tablet ). Beijing based ECitySky,...
Alibaba’s US$4.5 billion investment in logistic – the key is land
[Translate] Recently, I talked with a friend who knows Alibaba pretty well and I changed my mind about its investment in logistic. Earlier I believe it is just an idealistic plan. (http://en.technode.com/2011/01/24/alibabas-us4-5-billion-investment-in-logistic-just-a-plan-only/) But in fact, Alibaba is working on something big. “The key is land,” said my friend. Alibaba is talking to local governments all...
How to Monetize Your Microblog Account? Just Sell It!
[Translate] A Sina weibo account which regularly tweets about news and information of a vertical industry and has around 200,000 followers, was sold to an enterprise at the price of several hundreds thousand rmb. This account is owned by a very active Sina weibo (microblogging) user (@jiuhongbinglan) and it took her around 40 days to...
Rekoo expected its China market to grow over 10 times this year
[Translate] Beijing based Rekoo is famous for its social game in Japan. Although it is a Chinese firm and has 90% of its 400 staff in the country, it is the number 1 social game developer in Japan’s leading social network, Mixi. It is also very popular in Gree, a mobile social network in Japan....
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