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Cloud Nine for China’s Cloud Computing?

[Translate] Everyone’s talking about Cloud computing. Let’s talk. We know that cloud computing is a term reinvented for Web2.0. It has existed in many names, especially by the name: Internet. Essentially, cloud computing moves applications or services from client to server. The client, in turn, fetches the remote services using web services. So what’s the...

Breaking: Sina Acquired Focus Media For $1 Billion

[Translate] Yesterday in Chinese traditional calendar is the day of Dongzhi, namely mid-winter. Today the temperature dropped dramatically national wide, and snow started heavily hitting some parts of China. Winter is getting very cold! However, Chinese Internet and advertisement market is very much heated by the news we just heard: Sina, one of the biggest...

AskForm, Your Handy Online Questionnaire Builder and Distributor

[Translate] IDC predicts the worldwide sales of SaaS applications of $10.7 billion by 2009, and CCWResearch also said the Chinese SaaS market value would reach RMB40.6 billion in 2011. But how much you know about Software as a Service (SaaS) in China? Chinese web markets are very active, but most of startups are spending their...

BloggerInsight Monetizes Chinese Bloggers’ Opinion

[Translate] BloggerInsight, founded by Shanghai-based Lucas Englehardt and XUE Ying, was launched in mid November. More and more international companies looking into Chinese market want to hear some honest and valuable opinion from local netizen, but obviously there lacks of channels for this type of communication and the language barrier also sucks. So BloggerInsight was...

PKTOON Brings Personalized Cartoon To Your Desktop and Social Networks

[Translate] PKTOON is a Guangzhou-based company offering personalized cartoon platform and cartoon-centric online community. Founded in December 2007, PKTOON is invested and managed by the founders of Canada’s Association of Chinese Senior IT Professional, senior managers and technical gurus who have been working in Internet marketing, advertising, animation and game development industries. We had great...

Crossing The Boundaries, Blogbus Re-defines Its Media 2.0

[Translate] Blogbus, the leading Chinese blog service provider and new media company which also owns YohoCity, a WOM (Word-Of-Mouth) platform, annouced its new Offline product, called iCity, a magazine focusing on urban life, today at its 6 years birthday party. iCity is described as the first Chinese interactive publication: the writers are the users of...

Qifang Is Named The World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer

[Translate] World Economic Forum (WEF) has just announced its Technology Pioneer 2009 earlier today, and Qifang (report on TechCrunch), the leading Chinese P2P student lending site becomes the first Chinese company to receive this prestigious honor. If you are bored with many copy-to-china stories, this is absolutly a great and encouraging news for China web....

TextVoz Reads The Web And Shares The Voice

[Translate] Besides the text, image and some format of multimedia content such as flash, video, what else can you share? Oh yes, don’t forget the Sound. We can share the music and some of us (but not many) love sharing their voice using podcast. If you think about it, it seems on the web voice...

BesTV, The Leading Provider of IPTV Service in China

[Translate] 2 millions subscribers, bundled with China Telecom’s broadband service and operated by Shanghai Media Group (SMG), a multimedia television and radio broadcasting, news and Internet company with capital assets around RMB 11.7 billion, IPTV service provided by BestTV seems irresistible in China. “We are expecting 10 millions subscribers within 2 years and by then...

Tencent, Crystal CG and Ogilvy Building Virtual World Expo 2010

[Translate] Thanks to Second Life, many of you have reckoned that virtual world would be the future of the web and some of us even link it to the so-called Web3.0 (or you can say Web3.d). I am glad that Chinese officials ‘feel’ the trend: Shanghai World Expo 2010 will be the first time held...

Google And Tencent Partnership On Search Engine Will End Soon

[Translate] For over 1.5 years, Tencent’s search engine Soso has been powered by Google, i.e. Soso has been using Google’s search engine technology to provide results to to its users. ‘This partnership will end soon and Soso will be re-launched and powered by Tencent’s own search engine’, an insider told me when I was in...

Designer and Developer Frontend Technology Forum 08

[Translate] Regarded as THE forum for web and frontend developers, D2 will be held on the 29th November in Shanghai. Being a forum by developers for developers, the forum is being organized in turns. TaoBao was the founding organization, Yahoo China took the honor the second time and Tudou will be organizing this time. Coordinator...