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Glamabox is Asia’s Birchbox Clone, For Home Delivered Beauty Products
[Translate] This article was contributed by Joanne Tsai with minor editing by Jason Lim. In September 2010, two young and beautiful Harvard Business School graduates Hayley Barna and Katia Beauchamp founded Birchbox.com and launched the online beauty product trend all over Europe and America. Due to this recent phenomenon, this business model has become the newest...
Should China’s Best School’s Copy Stanford’s FounderSoup and Create FounderHotpot?
[Translate] Last week on TechCrunch I read about a start-up program called FounderSoup run by Stanford’s Computer Science department and backed by Andreessen Horowitz. FounderSoup is an event that allows current students to pitch their idea, with the goal of attracting a co-founder. What better place to find a co-founder than Stanford; the epitome of...
China Telecom to Encourage In-house Innovation
[Translate] China Telecom, the state-run carrier is reportedly investing heavily to encourage in-house innovation with setup of two internal innovation incubators in both Beijing and Shanghai, a big step for a Chinese state-run company. According to an internal document from the largest landline operator in the planet, it will earmark about US$ 30 million (RMB...
Learn How to Speak “American”
[Translate] Sometimes different accents are so difficult to understand, they sometimes sound like a different language all together. Originally in Beijing, many American friends couldn’t understand my Australian English accent. But after hanging out with so many for so long, my accent has become a blend where sometimes even Americans think I am American. Since...
Qihoo 360 Launches Pinterest-like Service
[Translate] With the #1 online security software (user penetration hit 83.3%), second most-popular browser (user penetration peaked at 57% in last September), largest startup-page (hao360.cn, according to iResearch report) and more than 3 million users at hand, Qihoo360 could easily take the same approach as Tencent did with QQ – to capitalize on its huge...
Come on Asia…Take More Risks!
[Translate] This post was contributed by Mikaal Abdulla, CEO of 8Securities, an innovative and social online trading portal based in Hong Kong. I love risk. Not so much the bungy jumping off a bridge or telling a triad I don’t like his tattoo kind of risk, but taking real risks in business. Perhaps it is...
Are Chinese More Willing to Pay for Online Video Content Now?
[Translate] China is a fascinating place since it develops and changes so rapidly. Last June I wrote an article saying “Why it’s Difficult to Make Money from Chinese Users – Online Video Example” and I posed the question at the end “Will Chinese consumers ever be prepared to pay for software or online service? When...
TechNode Launchpad Contest: Win A Trip to Japan If Your Start-up Has the Best Potential to Expand Outside China
[Translate] We are proud to announce yet another awesome prize up for grabs at our TechNode Launchpad event next month. If you don’t already know, TechNode Launchpad is a start-up pitch and demo competition. Today, we have confirmed that Akio Tanaka of Infinity Ventures has generously sponsored a prize for the start-up he selects as...
Top China Stories Today: 2nd Largest iPhone Partner, Xunlei Shops
[Translate] China Unicom Claims 2nd Largest iPhone Partner: Li Gang, Deputy GM of China Unicom claimed that the Chinese operator has grown to be the second largest iPhone partner of Apple in the planet. China is the gadget maker’s fastest growing market, Tim said. Given the ‘Black Friday riot’ during the China launch of iPhone...
Report: China B2C Hit $38B in Sales in 2011
[Translate] China B2C market generated US$ 38 billion (RMB 240 billion) in sales in last year, up 131% from the same period a year ago, according to a report by Beijing-based market researcher AnalysysInternational. For the last quarter of 2011, the transaction volume reached 12 billion across the market. The report shows that the momentum...
Group Buyers in Mainland China Love Hot Pot and Other Asians Love Being Beautiful
[Translate] Unique Daily Deal aggregator and analytics platform for Asia and Oceania, Dataotuan has released their December 2011 report. The Chinese Daily Deal Market in December 2011, Special – 2011 overview China and SE-Asia-dec-2011 View more presentations from dataotuan Besides focusing on the movements in market share position by the big players in China, I...
U.S. Insults China By Listing Taobao as “Notorious” For Piracy and Counterfeit Selling
[Translate] IDG News today reported that China’s Ministry of Commerce was deeply unsatisfied with the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) listing of China’s Taobao on the world’s “notorious market” list for piracy and counterfeit offenders. “Since there is no conclusive evidence, there is no detailed analysis, this is very irresponsible and not objective,” said Ministry of...
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