Last week I participated in a Sinica Podcast on the Internet in China and Zhang Wuben and his magic mung beans. I somehow ended up as the sole defender if the efficacy of properly practiced traditional Chinese medicine; the other guests seem to believe it is some kind of Chinese voodoo. From the Sinica site: Mere [...]
On Thursday Fred Wilson posted a chart from Comscore listing the top 30 global Internet properties. There are six Chinese sites on the list-Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Sina, Sohu and Netease. The Comscore data significantly understates the size of major Chinese websites. I have borrowed the chart and inserted it below. Google’s Doubleclick Ad Planner has [...]
Zynga is doing more than just opening a Beijing office, they have bought XPD Media-Zynga Enters Asia With Acquisition Of Gaming Startup XPD Media; Opens Office In Beijing. Congrats to Robin Chan, Andy Tian and the XPD team. Now I know why they are leasing so much space. All I can say Robin is if [...]
UPDATE2: Zynga Acquires XPD Media; Opens Office In Beijing. Today Zynga posted three jobs on Craigslist Beijing: [UPDATE:These job listings appear to have been deleted from Craigslist. The links go to copies of the original postings. Strange that Zynga would post and then delete these, unless they jumped the gun on a more substantive announcement/partnership [...]
According to a report from Sina IT-Facebook亚洲战略加速：争夺谷歌中国工程师-Facebook has recently hired several senior Google China engineers. The report says that Facebook has also recently created an “Asian Project Team”. Recently there have been reports that Facebook is preparing to enter China. Perhaps these hires are part of those plans, perhaps they will support Facebook’s growing Chinese [...]
By now we are all familiar with the concept of the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) as four nations whose “combined economies could eclipse the combined economies of the current richest countries of the world” by 2050. Today China’s largest Internet firm Tencent announced a $300m investment into Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies Limited (DST). DST is the [...]
The China Social Game Summit 2010 was packed, and Rockyou, a sponsor, was one of the stars of the conference. Jia Shen (沈佳), co-founder and CTO of Rockyou, gave an excellent presentation in Chinese to a standing room only crowd of Chinese developers. He not only introduced his company but also gave a very informative talk [...]
Each country pavilion at the World Expo should show off what is great about that country. What better message could the USA send to the world than to have the three standard bearers of 21st century American innovation, creativity and opportunity–Google, Facebook and Twitter–as prime sponsors of America’s presence in Shanghai? The money to buy [...]
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