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Abang.com: Don’t Bring Your Baggage to China
[Translate] There have been so many road kills on the digital highway to China: practically all foreign companies entering the Chinese market have failed miserably. Abang.com, the Chinese subsidiary of About.com the successful network of network of expert ‘guides’, seems to be an exception and is doing quite well. What is their secret, how have they...
“Cool & Cheap” Destructive Innovation
[Translate] In the Chinese handset market a disruptive innovation revolution is taking place. China’s domestic mobile phone manufacturers are having a hard time to stay alive and also big multinational brands struggle to keep their market share (Nokia saw their sales in China decrease last year). Established handset manufacturers are anxiously looking for new business...
Baidu’s Strategy to Cover the Whole Spectrum
[Translate] A few weeks a go Baidu launched a new simplified portal service targeted at the Chinese elderly: 123.Baidu.com. It’s basically an old school link-list like Yahoo! started out back in the days. The site reminds me of another link-list, Hao123, a popular site that was acquired by Baidu back in 2004. Link-lists that are...
The Chinese Internet Industry: Mapping International Initiatives
[Translate] The results of my research on the Internationalization of the Chinese Internet industry have showed that a few of China’s prominent Internet companies in different segments have climbed up the value chain. They are now – just like ie Lenovo, TCL and Haier were a while ago – entering the next phase in China’s...
A Brief History (and Future) of Alibaba.com
[Translate] Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, is reportedly the first to have launched a commercial website in China. In September 1995 Chinapages.com, a directory of companies, goes online and within ten years Ma grows it in one of the most successful Internet companies of China. In Beijing’s Shangri-La’s Kerry Centre Hotel I interviewed Porter...
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