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Umiwi Founder Wang Lifen: When CCTV-Style Content Doesn't Serve Well Online, We Shift Strategies

Umiwi Founder Wang Lifen: When CCTV-Style Content Doesn’t Serve Well Online, We Shift Strategies

[Translate] TV programs make money from commercials; Other online video sites run commercials or charge viewers, or both. In September 2009, Wang Lifen quit CCTV, the state-run TV station, where she had worked as a senior producer and host for 15 years, and founded Umiwi.com. Wang declared this May that strategies for her online video website had shifted,...
Diandian Jack Xu: Mobile Strategy is Why We Are Different From Tumblr

Diandian Jack Xu: Mobile Strategy is Why We Are Different From Tumblr

[Translate] Diandian.com looks like Tumblr‘s little twin brother who happened to be raised in China. Four months after its launch, two months after its opening to public, Diandian this month announced its 1 million users, saying its goal number is 10 million by the end of this year.   Diandian is incubated in Kaifu lee’s...
How Struggling Micro-Blogging Tool Follow 5 Turned Into a Micro-Blog Aggregator

How Struggling Micro-Blogging Tool Follow 5 Turned Into a Micro-Blog Aggregator

[Translate] Yu Kunpeng: I still believe in micro-blogging although it doesn’t make money for us. After 10 years at Neusoft, “the largest IT solutions and services provider in China”, Yu Kunpeng left as director of its Telecommunications Division. He and his three colleagues registered a company, MyWay Technology, in 2007 in Dalian, a coastal city...
Guokr.com CEO G13: Popular Science is Going Social

Guokr.com CEO G13: Popular Science is Going Social

[Translate] Ji Xiaohua, well-known as Jishisan, an alias pronounced as G13 in Chinese, is like a pop star among Chinese young intellects. 11 years into Biology study, 3 years popular science writing and 3 years running an NGO for popular science, G13 recently started an internet business, Guokr.com.
Feature: Jiayuan Founder Haiyan Gong: It's Not For A NASDAQ Listing, It's For The One.

Feature: Jiayuan Founder Haiyan Gong: It’s Not For A NASDAQ Listing, It’s For The One.

[Translate] TechNode presents our guest column by Tracey Xiang, a senior editor at QQ.com, Tencent’s online news portal.  From this week on, Tracey contributes a weekly column Chinese In Tech on interesting characters in the China tech industry. You must have heard stories about founders starting projects to scratch their own itch and then turning them into...