Blog entries tagged Web

Social: China top of the world for microblogs

China Media LAB — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:13:01 +0100

CHINA has the world's largest number of microbloggers, according to the latest report on the country's new media development.

The annual report, published by the Social Sciences Academic Press, quoted the China Internet Network Information Center as saying that about 274 million Chinese people had microblog accounts as of Ju...

China Cloud: Nothing cloudy in Baidu plan

China Media LAB — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:34:07 +0100

BAIDU, China's largest search engine provider, will invest about 10 billion yuan (US$1.6 billion) to build cloud computing centers to attract web-based software developers as it seeks to offer more services to users.

Baidu will also allow application developers to access freely its cloud computing capabilities, the firm said yes...

Chinese Post-90s 'kids' get down to business

Qiao LAB — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:38:49 +0100

THE first of the post-1990s, web-savvy generation - those "irresponsible kids" born in 1990 - are entering the workplace and they're being closely watched to see how they adjust to the real world. Li Anlan reports.

Graduation season concludes with a huge sigh of relief: There are memories of funny cap-and-gown photos, going on t...

China Mobile web user base tops PC surfers

China Media LAB — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:58:18 +0100

THE user base of mobile Internet has surpassed that of personal computer users for the first time in China, the world's No. 1 dot-com market by Internet population, a national-level Internet research organization said yesterday.

By the end of June, the number of China's netizens is said to have reached 538 million with a pen...

Web: Measures to manage online programs

China Media LAB — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:58:46 +0100

The country's broadcasting and Internet watchdogs will step up their management of online programs, including website-produced shows and micro films, to ensure healthy development of the Web environment.

Good Web series and micro films can help develop a positive Web culture, and the country encourages more product...

Groupon: Website staff in compensation talks

China Media LAB — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:12:19 +0100

AROUND 50 employees of a group-buying website who were laid off on Friday are meeting with bosses today to try to agree compensation.

Management at Gaopeng, a joint-venture in China with Groupon, informed around 100 of its Shanghai workforce of between 300 and 400 that they had lost their jobs.

SINA.COM, operator of China's most popular microblogging platform Weibo.com, plans to make money from the service as early as the first half of 2012 and will continue investing in the microblogging service to cement its market position.

Sina, which also operates one of the leading Chinese web portals, said profit plunge...

Micro-blogging & Social Economy: You would have to be nuts not to do it!

China Media LAB — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:29:12 +0100

When Liu Shuwei wrote a post on her micro blog to help a remote village sell walnuts and raise money to build a road before they're harvested in October, she didn't expect all the produce to be snapped up within one month.

Liu, an economics professor and researcher at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing, one of China's...

China: How the Internet is affecting marketing

China Media LAB — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:16:12 +0100

Simply by registering on a beauty forum, Zhao Minrui received some of L'Oréal 's latest sunscreen lotion.

It was the third time she had received a free sample this year, either for sharing her experiences of skincare or participating in online bidding.

With or without even realizing it, ...

Internet: Yahoo vows to clean Alibaba mess

Qiao LAB — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 04:54:38 +0100

Web giant is smarting over spinoff of Alibaba Group's payment division

Yahoo Inc CEO Carol Bartz found herself in a familiar position on, assuring stock market analysts that she will clean up a mess damaging the long-slumping Internet company's market value.

The latest challenge to conf...

Venture Capital: More Web firms turn to private share funding

Qiao LAB — Tue, 03 May 2011 22:53:37 +0100

More Internet companies in China are turning to private share placements for funding that they could previously raise only from initial public offerings in overseas stock markets, Bao Fan, chief executive officer of China Renaissance Partners, said.

"We generally believe that the private market is already an alternative to the IPO market," Bao said in an interview in Beijing on Thursday, where China Renaissance is based. "These d...

Internet: Baidu challenges rivals in battle of applications

Qiao LAB — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:11:00 +0100

Baidu Inc, China's largest search engine by market share, is taking on Tencent Holdings Ltd and Sina Corp in a scramble to gather application developers worldwide by fully opening its platform and offering a sizeable fund package.

The search engine giant said on Wednesday that its a...

Mobile Internet: Kai-Fu Lee predicts mobile net craze

China Media LAB — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:14:27 +0100

The development of mobile internet will explode when some smartphones are available at prices less than 1,000 yuan, Kai-Fu Lee, the chairman and CEO of Innovation Works, said in a speech Friday at the Iresearch Annual Forum in Beijing.

Lee expects to see smartphones at prices lower than 1,000 yuan in the next few months.

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IPR: Baidu copyright row probes underway: Official

China Media LAB — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:30:53 +0100

Investigations of a copyright fight between more than 40 Chinese writers and Baidu, China's largest search engine, are underway, an official with China's copyright watchdog group said Thursday.

Yan Xiaohong, deputy director of the National Copyright Administration, said during a press conference that the search engine showed a "...

China Ad sellers claim Google's compensation

China Media LAB — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:08:19 +0100

Ad resellers threaten action over 'lost compensation' claims

Seven Google advertising resellers in China said on Tuesday that they will take "legal action" against the search engine if it does not fulfill their demands, which include compensation and an investigation into alleged internal corruption concerning the company's employees.

China's chance to control the Internet of Things (IOT) future

Qiao LAB — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:44:51 +0100

Breakthroughs in technology provide opportunity to exploit new generation of cyber exchanges

Thomas Li insists the Internet is no longer just a medium for mere humans.

The director of IBM Research in China believes Web technology could prove even more revolutionary when machines are fully adapted to using...

Innovating Poverty: Rural poor to get more web access

Qiao LAB — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:56:59 +0100

China will provide its underprivileged residents with greater access to the Internet by enhancing information technology services in rural areas, a senior government official said on Saturday.

In an address to the 2010 Global City Informatization Forum, China's Minister of Science and Technology Wan Gang said the priority for in...