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CDC Corp. Filed for Bankruptcy Protection, Rise and Fall of the First China Concepts Stock
[Translate] CDC Corporation. (NASDAQ: CHINA), the company behind China.com and many other businesses and the first Nasdaq-listed Chinese internet company has filed for bankruptcy protection, highlighting the company’s years of struggle has finally accumulated to the extent that it couldn’t deal with anymore, driving the company’s stock down more than 50% on Nasdaq. Founded in...
TermWiki: Term-based Online Learning Platform
[Translate] It seems going a little bit social is just like putting a handful of flavoring into the dishes to spice things up. So we get social rating like Yelp, social bookmarking as delicious, social dining with Grubwithus and letslunch, and now social learning with TermWiki. It’s been a long time since the online learning...
GMIC – The Money Side of Things
[Translate] Panel includes: Deng Feng, Founder and Managing Partner of Norther Light Fan Bao, Chairman and CEO of China Renaissance Rob Trice, Sr. MD of SK Telecom Ventures Gavin No, Founder and CEO of Zero2IPO Tim Chang, Partner of Norwest Venture Partners Investing in China “A move from me-too plays to more innovative plays. Instead...
Live Blog: How to become the next ‘Zuckerberg’ #gstartup
[Translate] After a busy morning session with our first ever live blogging in the G-Startup auditorium and queuing up for lunch buffet, we are back to Auditorium 2 for G-Startup’s afternoon session. This afternoon will have one additional panel (How to become the next “Zuckerberg”) and two more competition pitches (both on Growth stage pitches)....
Live Blog: GMIC G-Startup Competition 2011
[Translate] Technode team today is covering Global Mobile Internet Conference, both in Auditorium 1 with keynotes speakers including Charles Chao (CEO of SINA), John Liu (Google China) and in Auditorium 2 with G-Startup Competition. We will be live-blogging (and live-tweeting) G-Startup Competition here. And reporting in more details on keynotes and various interviews afterwards. Stay...
Mecox Lane joins T-shirt Price War with VANCL, MetersBonwe, Uniqlo
[Translate] If you’re surfing on Mecox Lane, the leading Chinese online platforms for apparel and accessories which SINA owns stake in, you may find out about its newly-released RMB 29 (US$ 4.4) T-Shirts, while VANCL, the largest B2C clothing site in China has been selling T-Shirts at the same price earlier this month. Mecox Lane’s response...
Tencent Raises Salaries by 10%, Sets Up Housing Fund with interest-free mortgage
[Translate] An email sent by Tencent CEO Mr. Ma Huateng to all its staff showed that the largest Chinese Internet company is planning an across-the-board pay raise by approximately 10%, setting up a RMB 1billion (US$ 153.2million) worth of “Tencent Housing Fund” to provide interest-free mortgage to qualified staff who are also first-time house-buyers. Tencent...
Weibo Wars – Tencent vs.Sina
[Translate] Tencent is aggressively fighting with Sina in the Weibo race. Growing at break-neck speed, Tencent has now has over 100 million registered users which took only 10 months compared with Sina which took 18 months. Even Twitter took about 2 years to get to 100 million. But Sina is not backing down easily in...
Hong Kong Startups Need Investors
[Translate] I wrote a piece a while ago talking about the start-up environment in Taiwan. So when I went to Hong Kong recently, I naturally wanted to find out more about the scene there. I know Gang has already talked about the HK scene but I want to focus on generating what they need –...
Western Web Companies and their Chinese Equivalents: Part 1 (infographic)
[Translate] This is Part 1 of a series that explores the companies of the Chinese web. Within China, the world’s largest internet population, lies an internet ecosystem similar to that in the West. At times, the Chinese web can be very foreign, indeed; access to websites and services Westerners take for granted are restricted for Mainland...
Startups get ready for launch at Echelon 2011 in Singapore
[Translate] Being in China, a lot of the focus on start-ups is here but we shouldn’t forget the talent and energy coming from South East Asia. When people think of big markets, China flashes up as number 1, but little people know that Indonesia is the 4th most populous country with more than 237 million people....
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