China Digital Media Readings for February 24th

• Posted by bbishop
• on February 24th, 2012

• William Farris – Google+ – Sina Weibo Joins Baidu, Sogou, and Youdao in Censoring “Li… – As I noted in my last post, on February 21, 2012, China Economics Net published an article entitled “Changes at the Top at Core Enterprises: Li Huidi Takes Post as Deputy General Manager of China Mobile Communications Corporation” (央企领导人员任免：李慧镝任中移动副总经理). By the morning of February 23, Sogou had joined Baidu and Youdao in returning no results for a search for “Li Huidi” (李慧镝).
• Chinese developer Hoolai on how half its iOS revenue got eaten by virtual currency scams last fall -
• 唯冠楊榮山的微博 新浪微博-随时随地分享身边的新鲜事儿 – proview CEO yang rongshan has opened a sina weibo account, says will use it to update info on apple dispute
• Daily Deals Market in China Sees Groupon Failing Badly, Movie Tickets in Demand | Tech in Asia -
• CCTV Africa: Chinese Media Into the African Continent | 八八吧 :: 88 Bar -
• Star Microbloggers Making Impact and Money on Sina Weibo | China Bubble Watch -
• Digital Strategy & Operations Director, China at Hewlett-Packard in Beijing – Job | LinkedIn -
• Baidu Establishes Joint Research Lab with A*STAR, Sets Eyes on Southeast Asia | Tech in Asia -
• 百度布局东南亚市场：与新加波科研机构建实验室-搜狐IT -
• As Sure As Night Follows Day, Tencent Launches a Pinterest Clone | Tech in Asia -
• IPad Battle Reveals Bank of China as Apple Opponent – Bloomberg – Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s legal fight for the iPad name in China doesn’t just pit the world’s most-valuable company against a failed Hong Kong display maker. Some of the nation’s biggest banks also are opposing the technology giant.
  Apple is appealing a Chinese court ruling that the trademark belongs to a mainland unit of Proview International Holdings Ltd. (334) At the time Apple says it bought those rights, the Shenzhen subsidiary was controlled by creditors including Bank of China Ltd. (3988) and China Minsheng Banking Corp. (1988), according to Proview founder Rowell Yang.
• Robert McDowell: The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom – WSJ.com – Top-down, international regulation is antithetical to the Net, which has flourished under its current governance model.
• 复星创投总裁陈水清涉嫌违法_互联网_DoNews-IT门户-移动互联网新闻-电子商务新闻-游戏新闻-风险投资新闻-IT社交网络社区 – senior Fosun VC/PE exec under investigation
• Will Twitter’s 500 Millionth User be a Chinese gov spam bot? Thanks to Ai Weiwei @aiww @AWWNeverSorry | Kempton – ideas Revolutionary -
• 高朋网回应裁员撤站：将对部分站点优化合并_原创_DoNews-IT门户-移动互联网新闻-电子商务新闻-游戏新闻-风险投资新闻-IT社交网络社区 – groupon’s china jv gaopeng laying of staff (again), shutting offices?
• Eight Questions: Rebecca MacKinnon, ‘Consent of the Networked’ – China Real Time Report – WSJ- As Beijing bureau chief for CNN in the late 1990′s, Rebecca MacKinnon witnessed first-hand the arrival of the Internet in China and the Chinese government’s struggle to control a technology some predicted would help bring about the end of Communist Party rule.A decade later, as Ms. MacKinnon documents in her recently released book “Consent of the Networked,” the party is still alive and still fighting to manage the flow of information online, though with far more success than many had previously assumed possible…

  As the daughter of a professor of Chinese history, I think we should be careful about making assumptions about where things are going, particularly when those assumptions are based in no small part on what we hope will happen.

• Alibaba Offers $2.5B to Take Listed Unit Private – Bloomberg – Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (ALIBABZ), in talks to buy back a stake owned by Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO), offered as much as HK$19.6 billion ($2.5 billion) to privatize a listed unit and gain full control of China’s biggest corporate e-commerce site.
  The company bid HK$13.50 a share for the 27 percent of Alibaba.com Ltd. (1688) it doesn’t already own, according to a Hong Kong Stock Exchange statement yesterday. The shares surged as much as 43 percent to HK$13.26, the most in more than four years.

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