Archive for August, 2009
Sina Tests Micro-Blogging Service
JLM Pacific Epoch
Sina (Nasdaq:SINA) is developing a micro-blogging service at t.sina.com.cn and has started internal testing, Sohu reported August 19. Testing will be for around 500 users, the majority of whom will be Sina employees, the report said. The service allows users to publish short messages and upload photos from computers or mobile phones, the [...]
Deal reached to sell iPhone in China
Bloomberg News
Apple Inc.’s iPhone will go on sale in China in the fourth quarter, entering a market that has more wireless subscribers than the combined populations of the United States and the 16 nations that use the euro.
China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd., the country’s second-biggest provider of mobile-phone service, will sell the iPhone 3G and [...]
Unicom to announce China iPhone deal: analyst
Reuters
China Unicom will announce a deal to sell Apple’s iPhone in China as soon as Friday, an analyst said, citing an industry source with direct knowledge of the situation.
The analyst requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue.
Such a deal would mark a huge step for Apple, giving it access to the world’s largest [...]
Comparison of China vs. US Internet Users
The New York Times tech blog recently posted an article entitled, “China Lets a Hundred Social Networks Bloom (sort of)“
The post itself does a decent job introducing the current state of China’s Internet/Social Media space. I found that the chart above does a great job depicting the age range for who is actually using the [...]
Taobao.com Publishes Semi-annual Performance Report
China Tech News
Chinese online retail platform Taobao.com has published its performance report for the first half of 2009 and states it realized trading value of CNY80.9 billion, which is close to its CNY99.96 trading value during the entire year of 2008.
According to statistics provided by the National Bureau of Statistics of China, the country’s total [...]
