Facebook recently opened itself to the public while the Alibaba Group (featured in New York Times) may have plans to put itself back in private holding. The Chinese company has long been shouting at Yahoo (its American partner) regarding buying back the former’s shares (Yahoo owns 40% stock in Alibaba). Those discussions grew sour on …
It is no secret that China is now the biggest “net citizen” in the world. Even as far back as 2008 there were over 250 million people logging on. In addition, the number of .cn domain names registered exceeded 12 million – more names than in all Germany for instance. Cyber-squatting, domain name scams and …
Finally, Google made the drastic move top stop censoring its search services on Google.cn. Starting today, users visiting the site will be redirected to Google.com.hk where searches in simplified Chinese are not censored. Google.com.hk was specifically designed for users in mainland China and delivered via Google’s servers in Hong Kong. Users will notice a slowdown …
Last year I attended SES Xiamen and reading back the articles I wrote back then they still stand for a big part, especially the one called Chinese lessons. This year’s conference was held in a hazy Nanjing, 2.5 hours by fast train from Shanghai, and organized by Timev and SMX.There were three conferences going on …
It won’t come as a surprise to you that today on 08-08-08 at exactly 8 past 8 (If you haven’t guessed it, 8 is a lucky number in China) the Olympic Games will start in Beijing. The major search engines in China have all included references in their logos to this special event that is …
China has now 253 million internet users according to the latest report of the China Internet Network Information Centre (The CNNIC is a government agency). That’s 43 million users more than the last report released at the end of last year and it also makes it the world leader in Internet users. 253 million internet …
Yesterday, the 19th of May 2008, the three days of national mourning started in China to commemorate the now already more than 30.000 victims of Monday’s earthquake in Sichuan, China. All the Chinese search engines, as well as major portals, video sharing websites and many others will be in black and white during these 3 …
China has now more internet users than the US. That was one of the items that made its way into almost all news media in the middle of March. Linking China and the internet makes a newsworthy item these days. More about that later on. First look at what Google has changed about their interface, …
Baidu, the leading search engine in China, is getting involved in the coming US Presidential elections it seems. They have added a caricature of Barack Obama and the democrat donkey in the Baidu logo. From the China Perspective: This is only the sixth time that Baidu has dedicated its homepage to an individual. Baidu has …
China has now 210 million users according to a press release from the China Internet Network Information Centre (The CNNIC is a government agency). That’s a lot, considering that half a year ago there were only 165 million users and a year ago 137 million. In one year the number of users has gone up …
