eBay Joining Forces With TOM Online

eBay, the world’s largest online auction site, is to close its Chinese operations after almost 5 years of participartion and announced that it is starting a 49 -51 joint venture with Tom Online Inc of Li Ka-Shing, the richest man in Asia. eBay will invest $40 million for the 49% stake, while Tom Online, with [...]

3 Reasons eBay China Partners Baidu

eBay recently announced to partner Baidu in China. The agreement between Baidu and eBay China (eBay Eachnet) includes the three major areas below: Baidu is to promote Paypal Beibao, PayPal’s service in China, as the preferred online payment mechanism on the Baidu Points platform. Baidu is to become the exclusive provider of text-based search advertising [...]

Search Engines Update Logos to Celebrate Chinese Festivals

Yahoo China has been displaying this logo since 1 October for China’s National Day, while Google China (Guge) has dumped the Chinese Guge characters and replaced with this moon cake logo for Chinese’s Mid-Autumn Festival. For Yahoo’s related information, review how Yahoo search began. For Google’s related information, review 10 facts about Google.

China Online B2B Blooming

Alibaba recently published a research report in which Alibaba claims its online B2B services have shortened the time merchants spending on their purchase cycle by 75%. Normally, merchants spend between 3.3 to 4.2 months in completing purchase deals via the “traditional offline trading route”; while by utilizing the B2B services on Alibaba, merchants only need [...]

Skype Signs Up Chinese Users

I noticed lately I have been seeing this type of Skype ad very often. I suspect that China must have opened up the VoIP market for Skype to Chinese users, even Chinese programmers hacked Skype’s protocols. Skype, a VOIP and/or instant messaging tool, has 280 million users globally. Skype allows: Audio conversations Video conferences Multi-way [...]

Bokee Launches New Click-based Advertising Platform

Bokee, Chinese Blogging service provider, launched Bokee Bank, a click-based advertising service on 23 August. The new click-based advertising platform was also launched with a new version of its blogging service, version 3.1. This new version of blogging service includes blog search and chatting capabilities. Chinese bloggers can now sign up on Bokee Bank and [...]

Over 50 Percent Chinese Internet Users Believe in Online Transactions

Online payment has long been daily procedure in western countries including the United States and most parts of Europe. However, the use of online payments is still not as popular as for Chinese due to its late development in China. The attitudes of Chinese towards using online payments are shown below, according to iResearch. This [...]

Chinese Programmers Hacked Skype Protocol

A group of Chinese programmers hacked the protocol of Skype, VOIP software and/or instant messaging tool, in July 2009 and security concerns were raised. An insider disclosed the objective for the Chinese programmers to crack/hack Skype’s code was not to pirate Skype, but to develop a free, more efficient, and safer P2P communication platform that [...]

China Online Advertising Revenue 2006

The total online advertising revenue in China reached 2.095 billion yuan in the first half of 2006, in which Sina, Sohu and Baidu were among the top three, according to Analysys. Baidu made the biggest growth to 15.37% from 9.51% within the space of one year, in terms of market share in revenue. Online advertising [...]

Souyo Becomes Chinese Technorati

Souyo, a Chinese blog search engine, has its homepage redesigned and some features upgraded, though many bloggers or blog searchers believe Souyo is already the Chinese blog search engine which offers the most features. Evidences on how ambitious Souyo wants to be the number one blog search engine in China can easily be spotted. One [...]

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