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Working with China’s Generation Y
BusinessWeek
In urban China, Gen Y is a group of exceptionally talented people. No other generation in Chinese history has received such high-quality education for so many people. Chinese Gen Ys are single children born under China’s one-child policy. According to studies such as those by Posten and Falbo of the Guttmacher Institute, China’s solo children [...]
Chinese Video Takes Aim at Online Censorship
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 Web.
The video, called “War of Internet Addiction,” is a send-up of government censorship starring videogame characters [...]
HBS Cases: Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
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 could do more good for Internet freedom and the cause of human rights by working inside [...]
Top 5 Chinese Technology Trends For The Year Of The Tiger
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 and risen to the challenge of figuring out the trends for this coming year…
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Here Come the Viet Gamers
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 big computer screens, sits Vietnam’s leader in online gaming and social networking services. VinaGame aims to [...]
Chinese Companies Can’t Build Brands? Think Again
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, 44% of Americans think that the world’s leading economic power is China. “People who think this are crazy,” [...]
Even If Google Exits China, Microsoft May Face Obstacles There
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 exit the Chinese market: “A captain would never run away from his duty, if he knew the ship was [...]
Micro-blogs in China: Tweeting through the ‘Great Firewall’
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 2006.
While almost all of the early Chinese micro-blogging pioneers faced the same fate as Twitter, most [...]
China Site Youku.com Raises $40 Million
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 were once known.
Youku Chief Executive Victor Koo said the new funds will go toward expanding its [...]
Taobao captivates Chinese e-tycoons, big and small
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 of students like Ge, but also giants like Dell, Uniqlo, Procter and Gamble, and Chinese firms seeking [...]
