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News on the Internet & Tech Industry in China

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Feeling insecure

Will Tencent’s service be banned by India?
Jul 12, 2013 (WiC 201)

Despite a flaring up in a decades-old border dispute in April, relations between China and India have improved in recent months. In May, Premier Li Keqiang made Delhi the first stop on his maiden foreign tour and in the last two weeks ...

Always ready for a chat

Ma Huateng has built the most valuable web firm, and it’s now going global
Jul 5, 2013 (WiC 200)

During a routine baggage check at an airport, an anxious security guard stopped Tencent’s co-founder and chief executive Ma Huateng in his tracks. There was nothing wrong with Ma’s baggage, the guard explained, but he wanted to know whether ...

Wake up and smell the copy

China’s ambitions in 3D printing are huge. Some predict trouble ahead
Jun 14, 2013 (WiC 197)

American law student Cody Wilson has made things more difficult for the 3D printing industry. That’s after the gun enthusiast used the new technology to create a fully functional firearm. The weapon is a security nightmare, especially as the ...

It has 400 million users. But have you heard of it?
May 31, 2013 (WiC 195)

In 2004, Sergey Brin went to Beijing to visit Baidu, the Chinese search giant. Trying gamely to make conversation, Brin asked Baidu founder Robin Li if it was true his company’s logo was, in fact, a dog paw. Li replied, somewhat tersely, that ...

Too close for comfort?

Apple and Foxconn had the perfect corporate marriage. Is it now fraying?
May 24, 2013 (WiC 194)

Two of the firms that have featured most regularly in Week in China over the past four years aren’t even mainland Chinese: Apple, from the US, and Foxconn, which is headquartered in Taiwan. That hasn’t stopped China from playing a pivotal ...

Baidu makes online video acquisition. Why?
May 17, 2013 (WiC 193)

Since spending nearly $1.7 billion on acquiring YouTube in 2006, search giant Google has been struggling to monetise the video-sharing site. Even though the platform is very popular, industry observers think YouTube will bring in just $2.5 ...

A Chinese online business that focuses on brides
May 10, 2013 (WiC 192)

Is Alibaba Group about to announce the date of its initial public offering? That’s the speculation, with a new CEO and CFO both taking up their jobs at the e-commerce giant this week. The rumour is a valuation as high as $100 billion, although ...

A widely followed deal

Alibaba faces off against Tencent with Sina Weibo stake
May 3, 2013 (WiC 191)

There’s a scene in the current hit film Beijing Meets Seattle when Tang Wei’s character asks to see the driving licence of the man picking her up at the airport. Disconcerted by the out-of-way route they are travelling, she snaps a ...

Game for anything

“China’s Facebook” – Renren – changes direction
Apr 26, 2013 (WiC 190)

Facebook listed in May 2012, with an IPO price of $38 a share. Now it hovers around $26. But its stock performance is still a lot better than that of its Chinese clone Renren, which went public in May 2011. Granted Renren initially saw its stock ...

TuJia takes a US web idea to the next level
Mar 22, 2013 (WiC 186)

To see how popular home-rental listing sites have become, look no further than website Airbnb. The online room-rental service is now reckoned to be worth $2.5 billion, after raising $150 million in financing last year. That puts the five ...

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