WSJ.com The latest battle over Internet freedom in China is playing out in an online movie that pits an armored blue beast and his band of antiauthoritarian rogues against a sinister force called Harmony that seeks to clean up the … Continue reading
HBS – Working Knowledge Google, the “do no evil” company, gained entry into the Chinese search engine market last decade by agreeing to ban search results on topics deemed sensitive by the Chinese government. To Google’s way of thinking, it … Continue reading
ChinaTechNews Another Chinese New Year is upon us, and this year we transition into the Year of the Tiger. As Chinese businesses begin to shut down until the beginning of March 2010, we’ve stared at the eye of the tiger … Continue reading
Forbes Perched above a Big C supermarket on a street jammed with bipeds dodging mopeds, the Ho Chi Minh City headquarters of VinaGame is easy to miss. But inside, amid funky warehouse decor and lots of young staff glued to … Continue reading
BusinessWeek How many Chinese brands can you name? Probably fewer than the fingers on your hand. Atlantic Monthly journalist James Fallows believes China’s lack of global brands is proof it is not an economic superpower. As he wrote last month,
WSJ.com Kai-Fu Lee, who’s overseen operations for both Google Inc. (GOOG) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) in China, posted a cryptic message on microblogging service Twitter the day after Google made its recent, startling announcement that it might exi
CNN A handful of homegrown micro-blogging sites emerged about the same time Twitter started to gain a small, yet steadily growing, share of Chinese Internet users, beginning about 2007, around a year after Twitter was launched in the U.S. in … Continue reading
WSJ BEIJING—Youku.com, one of China’s largest video Web sites, raised $40 million in new funding, a nod of confidence that the medium will continue to grow in China as companies shift further away from the user-generated videos for which they … Continue reading
AP Ge Hongjun started a shop on Taobao.com — China’s answer to eBay — as a class project but he now sees it as his ticket to becoming a retail magnate after graduation. Taobao’s growing popularity has captured the imagination … Continue reading
BusinessWeek On the eve of the Copenhagen conference was a two-day meeting in Beijing about the smart grid in China. Check out the Cleaner, Greener China blog for some interesting analysis of the event, which included speakers from companies like
