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News on the Internet & Tech Industry in China

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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 ...

In search of trust

Top Chinese internet firm trades profits for ethics
Dec 11, 2009 (WiC 42)

In China, if people want to look something up on the internet they don’t “Google it”. They “Baidu it”. The nine year-old company is wildly popular among the 360 million people now online in the country. It accounts for 64% of ...

Offline, off message

Western web favourites fail to wow China users
Dec 4, 2009 (WiC 41)

They didn’t know what he was twittering on about, at President Obama’s ‘town hall’ gathering in Shanghai last month. Specifically, the president was talking about internet freedoms. But in the process he admitted too that he had never ...

Choose us, Terry

Cities compete for investment from Taiwan's most famous businessman
Nov 20, 2009 (WiC 39)

The important thing in any organisation is leadership, not management. A leader must have the decisive courage to be a dictator for the common good.” So says Taiwanese electronics mogul Terry Gou in ‘Gou’s Quotations’, a ‘little red ...

Battle of the bureaucrats

Government ministries clash over online game rules
Nov 13, 2009 (WiC 38)

A man in Wuhan took his pregnant wife to see a doctor. He was worried that she had some sort of disease as she got up in the middle of the night “too often” to drink water. The doctor did the usual checks and declared that he couldn’t ...

Turning the page

Will the e-book captivate Chinese consumers?
Oct 23, 2009 (WiC 35)

Knowledge, rather famously, is power. And in ancient China, book ownership was also a prerequisite for prestige and political authority. Qin Shi Huangdi, the first emperor, ordered the burning of all ancient books and records for fear that they ...

Online authors build up huge followings. Who are they?
Aug 28, 2009 (WiC 28)

Blogging has never been bigger. Estimates now put the number of online scribes in China at 107 million (that is the number of blogging accounts that have been set up, at least). For some political theorists, this all portends an era of freer ...

The latest craze: an online game that encourages the stealing of vegetables
Aug 28, 2009 (WiC 28)

One of the reasons Chairman Mao was so keen on collectivization was that he believed farmers were thieves. Well, a new online video game would seem to give some credence to his view. The game is called Happy Farm and it is hosted on social ...

Dotcom that pays dividends

Alibaba offers its shareholders a nice surprise: some cash back
Aug 21, 2009 (WiC 27)

Those that remember the heady days of dotcom investing, will also remember “cash burn” – a term invented to assuage befuddled shareholders and give some accounting logic to a process in which web firms lost money each month. Most dotcoms ...

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