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E-commerce: Net-A-Porter May Find It Difficult To Cross The Great (Tax) Wall Of China

Qiao Next Digital — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:00:07 +0100

As Jing Daily noted last week, the wildly successful Richemont-owned British luxury e-tailer Net-A-Porter is set to launch a Chinese-language version later this month, part of a stronger effort to tap the Asian market that will also see the company open a Hong Kong distribution center. Though Net-A-Porter already has a great deal of operational experienc...

Internet: China Entering E-Commerce And Mobile “Golden Age.”

Qiao Next Digital — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:41:46 +0100

E-Commerce Presents Opportunity “To Replace Bricks With Clicks”

Despite the explosive growth of China’s digital space and e-commerce market, the new Fashion supplement to L2 Think Tank‘s Digital IQ Index: China report finds that most Fashion brands remain slow to adapt to the chang...

China's Broadband Fees Drop 30% As More Households Come Online

Qiao Next Digital — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:24:08 +0100

More Chinese netizens have access to faster Internet from their homes, according to latest figures.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China just held a webinar in Beijing covering the growth of broadband services. During the meeting, Miao Wei, minister of MIIT, said that in 2012, China's fiber to the home...

Shanghai: Smart network to cover half of city's communities by year end

Qiao LAB — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 20:34:12 +0100

A SMART community network that allows residents to make appointments with doctors or shop at nearby grocery stores via television will be expanded to more than 2,000 Shanghai communities, half of the city's total, by the end of the year, an official said yesterday.

The network, which lets residents pay utility bills and ...

Group-Buying: China's Velo, Didatuan Announce Integration

Qiao LAB — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 21:06:25 +0100

Chinese coupon provider Velo and group buying website Didatuan.com announced via internal emails that the two companies have completed a formal integration.

After the integration, a new company will be established and maintain the Velo brand. Song Zhongjie, former chief executive officer of Didatuan.com, has been appointed chief e...

Shanghai Phone booth update: Wi-Fi, touch panel

Qiao LAB — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:53:18 +0100

SHANGHAI'S 8,000 public phone booths, used less and less, will become new smart devices with features including Wi-Fi and touch-screens with public transportation and weather information, officials said yesterday.

The plan, however, still needs the support of the electricity authorities and other agencies, according to ...

3D printing reshapes manufacturing

Qiao LAB — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:28:37 +0100

New technology may herald a third industrial revolution, say supporters

In Jackie Chan's latest movie CZ12, also known as Chinese Zodiac, there is an eye-catching scene in which the actor uses specially made gloves to scan a bronze animal head that once crowned the famed fountain clock of the imperial retreat Yuanmingyuan Park...

E-commerce: China online retail market exceeds 1 trillion yuan

Qiao Next Digital — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:17:11 +0100

China is approaching a quarter of a billion online shoppers according to data from the China E-Commerce Research Center (CECRC). Recent research shows 247 million online customers in 2012, up 21.7 percent year on year from the 203 million in 2011, and an expected 310 million by the end of 2013.

Moreover, the scale of trans...

e-Commerce: Internet users spur 3C sales

Qiao Next Digital — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:14:14 +0100

"The number of e-commerce users reached 242 million in the Chinese mainland last year from 194 million in 2011, says a recent report published by the China Internet Network Information Center. The number of online payment users reached 220.7 million in 2012, an increase of nearly 54 million from the previous year."

Rising cyb...

Internet: Alibaba merges two cloud subsidiaries

Qiao Next Digital — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:08:55 +0100

Aliyun and net.cn, two cloud computing internet service companies under China's largest internet company Alibaba Group, will be merged as a new company retaining the Aliyun name, reports Chinese IT news website ChinaByte.

The move also marks the end of net.cn's initial public offering attempt in the United States. Alibab...

Internet: 800 mln Chinese expected online by 2015

Qiao Next Digital — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:50:27 +0100

China's Internet user base will reach 800 million in 2015, according to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). As explained by MIIT minister Miao Wei, as the MIIT speeds up its "Broadband China" project and strengthens broadband construction in China, the number of Internet users in the country will continue to increase ...

Internet: Xinhua Net to land in Shanghai Stock Exchange

Qiao Next Digital — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:46:36 +0100

In all 32 companies’ IPO applications were accepted during the period from Dec. 28, 2012 to Jan. 4, 2013, including Xinhua Net, according to information disclosed by China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)

It is expected that Xinhua Net’s IPO size will be around 1 billion yuan, nearly...

E-Commerce: 360buy to run group-buying business independently

Qiao Next Digital — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:11:14 +0100

360buy is upgrading the its group-buying business for independent operation in the future, according to a company announcement on Jan. 7. This follows Chinese group buying companies including 55tuan.com, meituan.com and manzuo.com, announcing successive profitability.

According to the announcement, Zhang Shouchuan, ...

Shanghai offers car incentives for new-energy vehicles

Qiao LAB — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:15:22 +0100

Government measures aim to rev up sales of new-energy vehicles

A policy aiming to encourage more local residents to buy energy-saving electric cars - by offering free license plates and rebates - has been unveiled by the Shanghai authorities.

The city's move comes two years after the central...

E-Commerce & Games: Suning.com to break into web games

Qiao Next Digital — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 02:04:07 +0100

Suning.com is reported to be setting foot in the web gaming business, according to DoNews.

At present, Suning.com has reached an agreement with a famous Chinese web game company and thepartnership web game program will soon be officially launched online.

Suning.com is not the first e-commerce company ste...

Welcome to 2013!!!

Qiao LAB — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 02:38:17 +0100

Mobile Internet: Tencent turns to WeChat app to defend turf against Sina Weibo

Qiao LAB — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:34:10 +0100

TENCENT turns to WeChat app to defend turf against Sina Weibo

Just two years ago next month, Tencent Holdings Ltd introduced a mobile instant-message application called WeChat. It already has 200 million users, including Lai Jingkui, a teacher in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, who uses the "Drift Bottle" function to find friend...

Internet: Students embark on data-privacy project

Qiao LAB — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:09:45 +0100

As the country fights against personal information leaks, a small group of university students in Beijing decided to take the matter into their own hands, in a bid to safeguard the public interest.

Zhang Mengyi, a law school student at the Communication University of China, and three of her classmates are embarking on an expe...

China's geoinformation industry generates 200 bln yuan

Qiao LAB — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 20:55:26 +0100

The output value of China's geographic information industry is expected to reach 200 billion yuan (31.8 billion US dollars) by the end of this year.

According to a statement issued by the National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation on Thursday, the output may exceed 400 billion yuan by the end of 2015.

Innovation: 3D printing, China's new growth point

Qiao LAB — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:20:46 +0100

China plans to invest in locally-invented 3D printing technologies to boost its manufacturing power, according to a senior industrial official.

Su Bo, Vice-Minister of Industry and Information Technology, said the country should establish plans and use tax incentives to speed up research and development (R&D) and application of 3D p...