Four Promising Names in China’s Internet Space
The following is an article I recently published on SeekingAlpha.com. It is a bit more investor oriented than most posts, but it provides a great summary of four Chinese Internet firms worth observing. To view the original article on SeekingAlpha.com please click on this link.
Last month Alibaba.com announced its Q3 figures reporting EPS up 57% [...]
An Introduction to Virtual Currency in China
After a long week of overtime with my eyes glued to the computer screen, I needed some time away from the monitor. On Saturday morning I walked from my apartment to the newspaper stand down the street and picked up a copy of the only print Chinese publication I read on a regular basis, Caijing [...]
百度一下：Business Ethics
Instead of “Googling it,†the vast majority of Chinese netizens (internet citizens) would rather 百度一下 (Baidu yi xia). Founded in October 1999, Beijing-based Baidu is the leading internet search engine in mainland China (pronounced BYE DUE). According to recent CR Nielsen figures ranking top Chinese websites by number of unique browsers, Baidu was number one [...]
In China It’s Xiaonei, Not Facebook
It’s eleven p.m. in China and 23 year-old Beijing University master’s student Peilin has just sat down in front of her brand new Lenovo IdeaPad. She clicks open QQ and MSN to instant message her friends. While she chats she uses Baidu to search for BBS message boards containing advice on peripherals for her new [...]
