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Baidu and eBay China Partner Up

Baidu and eBay China Partner Up EachNet, the Chinese auction website of eBay, has expanded their partnership with Baidu, the leading search engine in China. From Newsweek: Under terms of the agreement, Baidu will promote PayPal Beibao, PayPal's service in China, as the preferred payment method on Baidu. In return, eBay EachNet will use Baidu as the exclusive search provider on eBay EachNet. The two companies also plan to develop a co-branded toolbar. They expect...

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Microsoft Ponders Leaving China, Blogspot Blocking and Other Non-issues

Microsoft Ponders Leaving China, Blogspot Blocking and Other Non-issues China is in the news for many reasons but when it comes to the Internet one of the the main stays is the blocking of websites, persecuting of bloggers that cause social unrest with their writings and making foreign internet companies comply with national laws in order to keep the Chinese internet pure. Today a sum up of what has been happening in that field recently. Microsoft...

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Popular Searches in China

Popular Searches in China Google Zeitgeist published the popular Chinese searches in the month August. Google added China again to its monthly zeitgeist in March 2006 and it gives a nice insight in the world of Chinese search. In a previous article I attempted to analyze the popular Chinese queries from March until July 2006. The month August doesn't show a lot of difference. There are only 3 new entries, all the other 12 queries...

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Wikipedia Unblocked in China for All Languages But Chinese

Wikipedia Unblocked in China for All Languages But Chinese Update It seems the Chinese version of Wikipedia is slowly getting unblocked. In Shanghai it loads without a problem for now. Andrew Lih is keeping track of the areas in China where it has become available and the ones that still have no access. --- Wikipedia is accessible again in China. This is the third time the website has been unblocked. (read more on Wikipedia) Only Chinese that can...

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Google Stops Singing the Harvest Song in China

Google Stops Singing the Harvest Song in China Update Google China decided to sing again as Imagethief rightly points out. The Guge logo is back. Guge.com and Guge.cn for some reason still re-direct to the uncensored Google.com. Google China has ditched their Guge logo and retracted to their well known "Google" logo. 10 days ago China Tech Stories already noticed this but at that time it seemed to be a technical glitch...

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eBay China Rumors

eBay China Rumors A lot of rumours about the future of eBay's China division (eBay Eachnet) and its PayPal service are finding its way over the web. The most cited one is that eBay Eachnet and it's paypal service will be sold to HONG Kong-listed Tom.com, a media company that already distributes Skype (owned by eBay) in China. Another rumor is that eBay Eachnet is in acquisition talks with Tencent, known for its...

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MySpace Comes to China

MySpace Comes to China Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp intends to have another go at the China Market. After leaving the Chinese TV Market in June this year New Media will be the next attempt. From the Financial Times: Rupert Murdoch said on Tuesday that his wife, Wendy Deng, was working with senior News Corp executives to help bring the company’s popular MySpace social networking site to China. “We have to make MySpace a very Chinese...

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Google Losing Market Share in China

Google Losing Market Share in China Two research reports (Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou internet users were interviewed) have been released about the Search Engines Market in China and both come to the same conclusion. The only part they differ on is the percentage of loss. The China Internet Marketing Network Information Center (CNNIC) puts Google's overall loss at 8%, ending at 25.3% while Baidu's market share increases to 62.1% China IntelliConsulting (CIC), a marketing research start-up...

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