Baidu has quietly launched a software search engine. There have been no announcements, and no links to the site yet, but you can access it directly at http://www.soft.baidu.com. I learned about it through Sina’s increasing awesome Weibo microblog service. Baidu’s software search covers both mobile and PC applications. This is likely to be a very [...]
Yes, according to SOHO China’s Pan Shiyi (潘石屹) on his Sina Weibo (like Twitter but better) Sunday evening. Pan said he had just met with Apple China head Lu Lei (卢雷) who told him the official China launch for the iPad was likely to be in August. Pan, who with 999,000 followers is the ninth [...]
Ku6, acquired by Shanda (Nasdaq:SNDA) controlled Hurray Holdings (Nasdaq:HRAY) in November 2009, is now poised to become the first US-listed pure play Chinese online video site. I have written extensively about China’s online video business. To date more than $500M has been invested into various Chinese firms, with the field effectively winnowed down to four standalone [...]
Caixin has published a good English article on the Li Xiangdong case-The Rise and Flight of China’s Ringtone Lord. Li was head of China Mobile’s mobile music service, making him one of the most powerful mobile content executives in China. He is alleged to have taken at least 400m RMB, and probably more, in bribes/kickbacks/side [...]
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