Archive for the ‘internet’ Category
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
The site is in Chinese, but here is the Wikipedia entry about it:
[On April 1, 2008], Google launches Manpower Search (谷歌人肉搜索) in China (google.cn). This new feature is powered by 25 million volunteers who do the searching around the clock. When the user entered a keyword, volunteers will search any ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Online spending in China last year totaled RMB 59.4 billion. Of that, 43.3 billion alone was spent on Chinese online retailer Taobao.com. For comparison, Taobao points out that gross profits for international grocery chain Carrefour last year were 24.8 billion – that is, people are spending more through an online ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
My former employers, MSN, have just launched a fully revamped online mapping service in China (Chinese language only). Unlike in many other markets, where its unique selling point in its bid to upstage Google Maps is its 3D Bird’s Eye View capability – an area where MSN actually does it ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
In our January People to Watch cover feature we profiled Shi Yuzhu, whose firm Giant Interactive became the first Chinese online gaming firm to list on the New York Stock Exchange last year, making Shi a very wealthy man in the process. The profile, and a previous Obizuary column by Roger ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
I thought I'd contribute to Matt's early posting with something I read earlier today about Google testing out a new Chinese website. I'm interested to see whether Google's platform will significantly differ in China from the rest of the world, and what China's new market prominence in this field will ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
The battle for Chinese internet supremacy is heating up. Google has so far this year pumped millions of dollars into China in an attempt to increase its share of the Chinese search market, currently dominated by Baidu and yesterday announced plans for a complete overhaul of its China homepage - ...
Posted in internet, marketing, Matthew Plowright | 1 Comment »
