Qunar, Chinese online travel booking service seems to be growing to a ‘super’ company, even on a par with Ctrip in just a few years. The local magazine The Founder interviewed the team and this was the summary of the report. Overall, Mr. Zhuang Chenchao, CEO of Qunar was seemingly confident of the future as […]
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The Web Behind The Wall, TechNode Publication Debuted At the TechCrunch Disrupt
The Web Behind The Wall, the newest TechNode publication debuted at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF stage this past week. This launch of this interactive ebook could not be more timely as it coincided with China’s becoming the largest internet user base, the biggest ecommerce market by revenue, and the biggest gaming market in the world.
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Tech in China 2013: Chinese Internet Giants Shopping Crazily
The old story: Big Chinese Internet companies would, rather than buy or invest in startups, hire a bunch of engineers to build products on their own or do pixel-to-pixel knockoffs. Big names like Tencent are notorious for killing startups by doing so, with better products or the ability of converting existing users. Recognized reasons include […]
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Qunar Launches New Platform to Serve Partners
Chinese consumers have grown accustomed to the annual summer promotion buzz when major Chinese B2C sites like 360buy, Amazon, Dangdang and Taobao Mall tout to buyers with discounts, rebates. And now the buzz for the first time spread to the OTA sector with eLong, MangoCity and Ctrip successively announcing big money for the OTA price […]
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Ctrip Transforms towards Mobile Internet, Has to
Ctrip has been sitting on the overlord position of online travel industry for almost a decade before year 2012. However, a string of small travel startups equipped with disruptive innovation in travel business challenged the largest Chinese OTA from many aspects, flight booking, hotel booking, travelogue, you name it. Competition from its long-time rivals including […]
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Wrap-up: The Behemoths’ Investment Guide in 2012
It has been a turbulent year in the world of investment, but thankfully a trend of big tech companies acquiring quality startups has brought us a ray of hope. Instead of simply copying popular ideas from smaller firms, traditional tech companies are more willing to invest or acquire startups . Here’s a short investment report […]
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Map the Market, Mark the Profits
Even it’s not fierce yet, we can still sense a whiff of intensity in the map market. Or should we say it’s the calm before a storm. It seems that the O2O heat is urging the Internet industry to keep pace with it, with big names like Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent jump to ride on […]
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Ctrip Liang Jianzhang：We’re not Giving Up Commission Model
After taking Ctrip to the NASDAQ in 2006, Liang Jianzhang, co-founder of the leading Chinese OTA chose to take a break and study Economics at Stanford. Now six years have gone, coming back as a PhD. in Economics with specialties in population studies, Liang took the reins of Ctrip once again, in a time when […]
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Vacation Rental Service Tujia.com Raising from LightSpeed
Tujia.com an online vacation rental service in China targeting middle to high-end Chinese travelers has just raised a new round of funding from investors including LightSpeed Venture Partners, CDH Investments, Ctrip and HomeAway, the largest vacation rental in the world. Luo Jun, CEO of Tujia.com, said the funding will be used to expand its operations […]
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This is What We Call, the China Web
Thanks to Akio Tanaka of Infinity Ventures Partner, I was invited to join the panel at his Infinity Ventures Summit (Fall, 2011). The topic of this panel is pretty interesting, Everything You Wanted to Know About China Internet, But were Afraid to Ask. Other very experienced panelists include: Fritz Demopoulos the founder of Queen’s Road […]
