After a lot of talking, stress, fun, games, food and WORK, iWeekend Beijing 2011 has come to a close for another year. iWeekend is an event for entrepreneurs in the tech space to form an idea, attract a team and build a working prototype – a mini start-up all in one weekend! As an idea […]
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Chinese Groupon, Lashou and Meituan both Confirm They Raised Venture Capital
Groupon is pretty funny. I am not going to criticize it here because its business model is very fascinating indeed, but the global group purchase market it triggered has gone far too crazy. Groupon is reported to acquire uBuyiBuy, Beeconomic and Atlaspost to enter Asia, on the other hand, the rumor also says Google is […]
Chinese Video Sites, Burning To The IPO, With Hope
You may still question about the revenue model of online video and how long they will be burning the money, but the fact is that Ku6 has been listed, and other two leading video sites Tudou and Youku both are preparing for its IPO. (ref: Chinese online video sharing: where is the way out) The […]
Social Media Marketing is Hot in Shanghai
So tonight, I was speaking at the Dr3 event in Shanghai (this session was focused on Social Media Marketing) and I have got to say the level of interest took me by surprise. With over 80 people in the room, representing industries from tourism to trade we had a group that was eager to learn more about this social media and then join the networking session to mix and exchange war stories about what’s working and what’s not. Here is a summary of the three presentations.
It Is More About Clones, Facebooks Made In China
[Gang Lu: You can also find a revised version of this post on ReadWriteWeb. ] Facebook has officially launched its Japanese version, and its Chinese version was also released last week. However, the fact is that many Facebooks have been made in China and in operation for a long while, which probably means whether it […]
HiPiHi Announced Strategic Partnership With IBM
HiPiHi, China’s pioneer of the 3D virtual world, and IBM (NYSE: IBM), just announced a strategic partnership to collaboratively promote innovation in the 3D virtual world industry-another major collaboration since HiPiHi joined forces in 2007 with Intel (China) and Vidal Sassoon. According to the press release, the partnership between HiPiHi and IBM will be involved […]
Facebook Japan To Be Launched, How Can It Succeed
Facebook, as they did with the German and the Spanish language, asked the Japanese Facebook users to translate its site into Japanese and gathered 1,375 volunteers (as of May 19) to contribute working on the translation. Today, after more than 30,000 translations have been submitted, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, came to Japan and announced […]
Chinese BBS – The Undiscovered Phenomenon in Chinese Internet
[Ed: This post is edited by Josh and co-published on ReadWriteWeb.com. Here is the original post.] According to latest report from China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), by end of 2007, there are over 200 million Internet users (including 163 million broadband users) in China. 2008 must be a very busy year for Chinese Internet, […]
TOTALCHINESE.CO.UK BETA2 Live!
TOTALCHINESE has released its BETA 2 yesterday, a forward step towards its integration of Personal and Commercial Business Search Engine. Now it is much closer to a E-ecommerce portal (the Paypal online payment will be integrated with TOTALCHINESE soon!). User Experience: Search and browse for the UK-wide Chinese Business including chinese restaurant, takeaway, education service, business consultant, etc An […]