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News on the Internet & Tech Industry in China

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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 ...

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: ...

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, ...

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 ...

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