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by Greg Cruey on July 10, 2009
China search engine Baidu is offering to help Japanese companies support e-commerce inside China, according to Asiajin. Baidu has had a Japanese version of it's search engine since 2007.
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by Greg Cruey on July 6, 2009
A number of news sources (Metaverse Journal, CNN, Venturebeat) are covering new restrictions on virtual currencies in China.
China's Ministry of Commerce has put an end to the exchange of virtual...
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by Greg Cruey on October 2, 2008
Temasek Holdings, Singapore's Sovereign Wealth Fund, has coughed up $100 million for the Chinese game company 9You.
We reported on this deal back in March, but now the money has actually changed ...
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by Greg Cruey on September 30, 2008
China Tech Blog pointed out in a blog post earlier this month that online shopping in China is just exploding...According to iResearch, the total volume of consumer transactions online in China during...
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by Greg Cruey on September 29, 2008
China CSR released a story last week on the 17 companies that just made it through the Internet Society of China's new credit rating scheme.
Some of the giants on are on the triple A rating list...
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by Greg Cruey on August 27, 2008
The Inquisitr ran a post yesterday saying that domain registrar GoDaddy is being blocked in China.
According to the Inquisitr's source, GoDaddy started being blocked during the beijing olympic ga...
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by Greg Cruey on July 22, 2008
Analysys International thinks it will get bigger - MUCH bigger.
According to a report released yesterday by XFN-Asia, Analysis International expects there to be 600 million Internet users in China by...
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by Greg Cruey on July 20, 2008
China is evidently paying people to say the "right" (read: politically correct) thing on the Internet. And (surprise) they've been doing it for a while, according to blogger Joop Dorrest...
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by Greg Cruey on July 11, 2008
Liz Gannes at New Tee Vee brought it to my attention this afternoon that 56.com has miraculously reappeared in the land of the living.
The Guangzhou-based video sharing site had been offline for five...
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by Greg Cruey on July 9, 2008
The Guangzhou-based video sharing site 56.Com seems to have bit the dust. For the moment at least, the site is dead. And it has been for over a month...
Web TV Wire seems to think that the disappeara...
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by Greg Cruey on July 8, 2008
The Huffington Report has become one of the supernovas of the blogosphere and they nailed it with this piece.
They've captured both the Optimism and the pessimism that surrounds the Internet in C...
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by Greg Cruey on June 6, 2008
A recent report by antivirus software vendor McAfee Inc. has found that some of the most dangerous domains on the Internet are in China. That may not be good for companies setting up Internet-based bu...
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by Greg Cruey on April 1, 2008
According to a recent study by the Pew center, the answer to that question appears to be "yes." The report by Deborah Fallows (published in PDF format) is available online for free.
Fallows...
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by Greg Cruey on March 31, 2008
Two different reports this month both seem to indicate that there's room for growth in China's Internet gaming market.
Pearl Research released a report in March showing that Internet gaming i...
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by Greg Cruey on March 30, 2008
Illegal mapping web sites: Min Yiren, Deputy Director of China's State Bureau of surveying and Mapping (SBSM) says there are too many of them, and the speculation is that a crack down on such site...
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by Greg Cruey on March 23, 2008
The Chinese Internet gaming and social network portal 9You has gotten a huge infusion of cash from Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, Temasek Holdings, Pearl Research reported on Friday.
Chris M...
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by Greg Cruey on March 20, 2008
Venture capital funds have invested in social networking sites and news portals in China only to find that the Chinese government isn't willing to let information flow too freely around the Mainla...
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by Greg Cruey on March 18, 2008
It's a testimony to the power of the Internet. It's a reaffirmation of the Chinese government's commitment to the Great Firewall of China as a means of controlling what information reaches...
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by Greg Cruey on March 5, 2008
Just a couple of weeks after China lost its first World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute, the US and the European Union (EU) have brought China back before the WTO, this time over China's practice...
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by Greg Cruey on February 13, 2008
How would you like to see a discussion thread on your online bulletin board get 25 million hits? The combination of celebrity gossip and sex scandal has done that in the past week or so for one China ...
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by Greg Cruey on January 19, 2008
I should admit at the start of this that I am not a citizen of Second Life - or of any other virtual world. While I understand the financial potential, online gaming has never really appealed to me pe...
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by Greg Cruey on January 16, 2008
For a day or two it looked as though China was about to lift the ban it has in place on the opening of new Internet cafe's in the country. At least that's what the Inquirer was saying.
Egan ...
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by Greg Cruey on January 5, 2008
I loved this question from fellow blogger Tim Faulkner: "What's more evil than Google? A Google partly controlled by the Chinese government."
Okay, I'm not sure that I think evil i...
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by Greg Cruey on December 24, 2007
In a world where information is a commercial product and providing access to information over the Internet is a major growth industry, is censorship a violation of free trade?
You'd think that qu...
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by Greg Cruey on December 17, 2007
I've spent a lot of time and energy keeping track of the umpteen presidential candidates in America over the last year and examining their positions. There's a lot of stupid, even scary, think...
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by Greg Cruey on December 10, 2007
The Shanghai Daily recently reported that venture capital investment in Internet technology was "fading." The winner? More traditional industries like energy, healthcare, education, and cons...
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by Greg Cruey on November 25, 2007
Pacific Epoch carried a report earlier this month on the number of Skype users in China. Pacific Epoch reported on an announcement by Skype's China partner, TOM online in which TOM claimed that Sk...
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by Greg Cruey on October 24, 2007
Giant Interactive, the maker of the Zhengtu (one of China's most popular online games) has set the terms of its upcoming NYSE initial public offering.
The share price will be between $12 and $14...
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by Greg Cruey on October 22, 2007
The Beijing Exhibition Centre is set to be the scene of the China International Exposition on Internet Culture starting October 25, according to the Xinhua news service.
The exposition will be a four...
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by Greg Cruey on October 17, 2007
According to the BBC, Asia is getting its own domain extension: dot asia.
Remember the days when there were basically only half a dozen or so Internet domain extensions? Dot com meant that it was a c...
