Do you want to know how much McDonald was spending online for brand advertising and for what campaigns this year ?? Admomo, a Hong Kong based online advertising intelligence startup, offers the answers to questions like that. (Admomo.com) A few clicks on its self- developed tool and a complete report with all the details is […]
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Chinese Online Retailers Ready to Take off – StarWatch Report Nov Edition Released
[This article is extracted from our StarWatch report (November Edition). To read the full article, please download the report English version and Chinese version for free. The English edition of this report will also cover other hot topics such as mobile internet industry in China, and startup profile including Sky-Mobi, D.cn etc.] On October 26, […]
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Sina, Tencent's Next Real Enemy
We were reporting that Sina Weibo is taking away Kaixin001’s traffic as they all mainly target at white-collar class at this moment. Tencent QQ’s users are more grassroot which sounds like no overlap with Sina’s target, and 50millions users of Sina Weibo is nothing comparable to QQ’s user base (latest data shows QQ’s online users […]
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Hey China Mobile, Where Did You Get the iPhone4?
China Mobile is running a promotion campaign in Jinan city of Shandong province, if you sign a 3-years contract and pre-pay minimum rmb 6800, (depend on the amount you pre-pay) you would be given a 8GB iPhone 3GS or 16GB iPhone 4 or 32 GB iPhone 4 for FREE. And China Mobile guarantee the iPhone […]
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Ex-Northern Light Venture Capitalist Start RMB Fund
As the A-share Growth Market becomes a hot listing place for high valuation IPO (many new listings can fetch a price of 40-50 times earning), more RMB funds are starting. We heard that, venture capital veteran, Robert Chau, has left Northern Light to start his own firm. The new company will run a 6 billion […]
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NetDragon and IDGVC Announced $50millions Fund To Invest Mobile App Development Market
Today, NetDragon Websoft Inc. (0777.HK), a leading online game company in China and the owner company of the leading iPhone/Android app store – Panda Space, together with IDGVC announced a $50millions fund (named mFund) to invest Chinese mobile application development market. Liu Luyuan, CEO of NetDragon, said in the press conference, mFund will not only […]
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The Mobile Internet Gold Rush Causing Touch Screen Shortage
By now, everyone in the industry knows mobile internet is a good mine. As more and more iPhone and iPhone like devices spread around the world, it is creating an impact on different parts of the supply chain. First of all are the touch screen manufacturers. These companies, located mainly in the Guangdong province in […]
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Kaixin001 Is To Launch Its Microblogging Service, for Self-Protection
“If Kaixin001 launched microblogging service last year before Sina, the market might be quite different.” a local veteran said to me. “But they did not do that (maybe they did not want to touch that space because they saw the end of early twitter clones.) and still focus on its social games. They are not […]
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Digital Music in China, It Has To Be Free Lunch
‘mp3’ is not a jargon any more and my parents even know it quite well, but less and less consumers are willing to buy CD. In 2005, the global sales for digital music is around $1.5billion, and the figure turns to $10.7billions in 2010. The fact we have to accept is that the traditional music […]
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Pony Ma Promises Tencent Will Be Open Within 6 Months
Tencent, is the biggest Internet company and probably the most mysterious company in China. Suffering the more and more complains from local companies which saying Tencent is killing the innovation in Chinese web as it strategically copies almost everything, Pony Ma, the CEO of Tencent, today said to the audience in a conference, Tencent wil […]