News on the Internet & Tech Industry in China

China is innovating…
The question just has to be reframed, says veteran fund manager
Sep 3, 2010 (WiC 76)

In response to our Talking Point last week ‘Can China innovate?’, we received the response below from WiC reader, James Cheng, a fund manager with Morgan Stanley Investment Management. With his practical experience of visiting Chinese firms, ...

Smart remark?
Netizens side with Jobs not Liu
Jul 16, 2010 (WiC 69)

As back-handed compliments go, it was something of a classic. Last week Lenovo’s boss Liu Chuanzhi stated: “We are lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn’t care about China. If Apple were to spend the same effort on the ...

“Call it a draw”
Why Google’s China license got renewed
Jul 16, 2010 (WiC 69)

Don’t be evil is Google’s unofficial mantra. But when the company decided to offer a censored version of its search engine in China, it had a bit of a rethink, devising a ‘scale of evil’ instead. “We decided that not to serve at all was ...

“We prefer India”
Ballmer gives up on China
Jun 25, 2010 (WiC 66)

Bill Gates made one of his wilder forecasts back in 1998, saying that he didn’t mind the Chinese pirating his software. “As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours,” he claimed. “They’ll get sort of addicted, and ...

Just about to click
Amazon’s China strategy has lost millions; will it now reap billions?
Jun 4, 2010 (WiC 63)

Anyone familiar with Aesop’s fable The Tortoise and the Hare remembers this lesson: slow and steady wins the race. Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and chief executive, hopes the same logic applies to China’s online retail ...

Suicide factory
Major electronics manufacturer hit by spate of staff fatalities
May 21, 2010 (WiC 61)

Lu Xin had worked at Foxconn for less than a year. But he already felt his ambitions for a musical career were slipping away. Although he had participated in Superboy, a television singing competition, he felt that his job at the ...

Search party
Baidu benefits from Google retreat but it’s more worried about Tencent
May 7, 2010 (WiC 59)

China’s leading search engine Baidu is named after a Song Dynasty poem by Xin Qiji about a man searching for love. Baidu – which means ‘hundreds of times’ – is said to represent the lengthy and torturous quest for the ideal ...

A new era of PC banking
Lenovo’s parent is buying banks, hailing a ‘findustrial’ revolution
Apr 16, 2010 (WiC 56)

First it was Chinese oil giant PetroChina buying Xinjiang-based Kunlun Bank. Then telecomprovider China Mobile said it was spending over $5.8 billion on Shanghai Pudong Development Bank. Now Legend Holdings – parent company to Lenovo – is ...

Spot the difference
A homegrown iPad clone, and a search engine that may look familiar
Feb 19, 2010 (WiC 50)

While the world is going gaga over Apple’s yet-to-be-released iPad, a Chinese counterfeiter is claiming that it came out with its own version of the tablet computer… six months ago. Great Loong Brother Industrial, a Shenzhen-based shanzhai ...

The hack pack
How school dropouts become online thieves
Feb 12, 2010 (WiC 49)

In China, hacking is the new national sport. There are hacker conferences, hacker training schools and magazines with names like Hacker X-Files and Hacker Defence. “Guaranteed successful attack tools!” is how Black Hawk Safety Net, the ...

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