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News on the Internet & Tech Industry in China

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“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Worried about privacy? Don’t visit a Chinese internet cafe
Feb 5, 2010 (WiC 48)

Big Brother is watching you. And not just the Big Brother that you might expect. It’s a warning worth noting in China’s internet cafes (there are at least 113,000 cyber cafes around the country, according to Xinhua). In Europe and the ...

How China’s internet is becoming an intranet
Jan 29, 2010 (WiC 47)

It is 2011, and even email is being curtailed. The good news: a revived post office, which is recruiting 100,000 new workers. Such was the online satire last week, prompted by continuing speculation that Google will exit the China market. ...

Not sharing anymore

Crackdown on video-sharing websites riles 250 million users
Jan 15, 2010 (WiC 45)

"Goodbye American Idol. Goodbye Simon [Cowell], I’ll miss your snarky comments,” Xiao Yu, an ardent fan of the show, laments. That’s because Chinese fans who have been following American Idol through online video can no longer find it in ...

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