Archive for April, 2010

• Blogging For Forbes China Tracker
  Posted by bbishop on April 26th, 2010 at 6:19 pm, Comments: 0

  I am happy to be included in a terrific group of bloggers over at Forbes’ new China blog-China Tracker.  China Tracker has posts about all [...]

• Qiyi, Baidu’s Hulu Clone, Launches. Time For Consolidation in China’s Online Video Industry?
  Posted by bbishop on April 24th, 2010 at 11:28 am, Comments: 0

  Qiyi.com launched this week. It is a partnership between Baidu and Providence EquityPartners, an investor in Hulu. Qiyi flatters Hulu with a front page nearly [...]

• Questions Arising From New Details On The Google Cyberattacks
  Posted by bbishop on April 21st, 2010 at 4:52 pm, Comments: 0

  John Markoff of the New York Times discovered more information about the attacks on Google that precipitated the company’s retreat from China. In “Cyberattack on [...]

• Is Netease Purchasing 50% of Microsoft’s MSN China Joint Venture?
  Posted by bbishop on April 20th, 2010 at 12:19 pm, Comments: 0

  There is a report in the Chinese press that Netease is in talks to buy into Microsoft’s MSN China joint venture by purchasing the 50% [...]

• ”网瘾战争 War of Internet Addiction” Wins Top Prize at 2010 Tudou Film Festival
  Posted by bbishop on April 18th, 2010 at 4:18 pm, Comments: 0

  The Machinima film ”网瘾战争 War of Internet Addiction” won top prize at the 2010 Tudou Festival, as Tudou co-founder Marc van der Chijs describes on his [...]

• “The Rise and Flight of China’s Ringtone Lord”-Caixin on China Mobile’s Li Xiangdong (李向东)
  Posted by bbishop on April 16th, 2010 at 11:41 am, Comments: 0

  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 [...]

• Do You Have What It Takes to Do Business in China?
  Posted by bbishop on April 13th, 2010 at 3:41 pm, Comments: 0

  I wrote a guest post for GigaOm Pro on why it is so hard for most US Internet firms to succeed in China. GigaOm Pro [...]

• BRICs Meet SARCs: Tencent, Digital Sky Technologies and Naspers
  Posted by bbishop on April 13th, 2010 at 11:12 am, Comments: 0

  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 [...]

• Rockyou and CTO Jia Shen (沈佳) Rock the House at China Social Games Summit 2010
  Posted by bbishop on April 11th, 2010 at 2:06 pm, Comments: 0

  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 [...]

• China Rumors of the Week: Facebook Entering China, Tencent Looked at CrowdStar, Shanda Going for RockYou?
  Posted by bbishop on April 8th, 2010 at 7:38 am, Comments: 0

  Inside Social Games reports on a couple of rumors making the rounds recently: Social Rumors about Chinese Gaming Companies: Tencent Looked at CrowdStar, Shanda Going for [...]