News on the Internet & Tech Industry in China

Zuck networks in China
The Chinese block Facebook, but its founder covets access to huge market
Jan 7, 2011 (WiC 90)

First it was eBay, then Yahoo, and more recently Google. But will Skype be the next foreign internet firm to withdraw from China? In late December, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced that all ...

What’s Facebook?
Mark Zuckerberg’s Chinese rival is RenRen
Dec 16, 2010 (WiC 89)

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, is getting ready for his trip to China. He has been taking Mandarin lessons and studying Chinese history. He’s also been using his Facebook “wall” to ask for advice on where to go and what to see. ...

Caught in the net
Is China being changed by the internet, or is it changing the web?
Dec 3, 2010 (WiC 88)

One of the most striking end-of-year numbers on offer from the Chinese statisticians was the update on the number of internet users in the country. As of the end of November it was 420 million, and counting. Yes, you’d expect it to be a large ...

Exploring the Amazon
Why Peggy Yu is taking Dangdang public
Nov 26, 2010 (WiC 87)

If imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon.com, should be glowing with pride. Dangdang, the Chinese equivalent of Amazon, has recently announced plans to launch an electronic platform ...

Cross messages
Why two tech giants went to war
Nov 19, 2010 (WiC 86)

Being rich certainly has its perks. In Shenzhen, for instance, the super-wealthy receive housing subsidies just for living in the city. Ma Huateng, the 39 year-old chairman and chief executive of Shenzhen-based Tencent – China’s largest ...

Back in the game?
Zhu Jun stakes his firm’s comeback on a team-based shoot-em up
Oct 29, 2010 (WiC 83)

A few years ago, Zhu Jun, owner of the football team Shanghai Shenhua, said he planned to list his club on the stockmarket. It was a bold statement, as none of the country’s football teams were profitable. The listing never happened – just ...

Hasta la vista, Yahoo?
Why Jack Ma wants to end Alibaba’s relationship with the US tech firm
Sep 24, 2010 (WiC 79)

If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Walmart, I will regret it for the rest of my life,” mused Jack Ma, the founder and chief executive of Alibaba Group, in an interview last year. Well, there may be something else Ma regrets right now: ...

Game on
Lenovo’s gaming console to take on the Wii
Sep 10, 2010 (WiC 77)

It started with a game called Pong – released by Atari in 1972. Since then video games have established themselves as an important form of mainstream entertainment. As columnist for the UK’s Guardian newspaper, and former games journalist, ...

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 ...

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