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November 23, 2007
Chinese video-sharing site Youku.com has raised another US$25 million in funding while our favourite airline ticketing company Qunar.com has received US$10 million in a fresh round of funding.Chinese social networking service Xiaonei.com has followed in the footsteps of Facebook and opened up its services to non-college students. The only thing... [continue]
| November 21, 2007
Baidu has released its video search report, and Kaiser Kuo of the Ogilvy China Digital Watch translates and summarises some of the key findings. Interestingly, “adult-related” search terms account for 34.14% of daily search volume, followed by celebrity-related (14.74%), TV serial related (12.48%), and animation-related (12.21%) searches. Google is reportedly... [continue]
November 14, 2007
Maybe. China Mobile’s CEO Wang Jianzhou confirmed that his company has been in discussion with Apple to bring the wildly popular handset to China, “because our customers like this kind of fashionable product,” said Wang. But, negotiations have stalled over Apple’s subscription revenue sharing business model. In Europe and the... [continue]
November 10, 2007
Last weekend, we told you that Yahoo! is now apologizing for not telling the full truth to Congress at the February 2006 hearing where Yahoo! was taken to task for its role in the conviction of Chinese journalist Shi Tao. Now both Republicans and Democrats have launched scathing attacks on... [continue]
November 9, 2007
As you know, Feedburner is being blocked in China, thus many people are having difficulties using the Shanghaiist RSS feed, which uses Feedburner. Per reader request, here's an alternate Shanghaiist RSS feed you can use until Feedburner becomes accessible again: feed://shanghaiist.com/temp_rss.xml Sorry for the delay in making this accessible.... [continue]
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November 6, 2007
Yahoo China has taken a jibe at its arch-nemesis in the search arena, Baidu, with new banner ads featuring a bald big-bellied man peering out into the distance with a telescope and a tagline that says "If you can search only 100 degrees, you might as well search 360... [continue]
November 5, 2007
As we speak (type?), RnB diva and superstar, Beyoncé is probably relaxing in her luxury suite somewhere in this city. We, on the other hand, are not relaxing. We are anxiously awaiting tomorrow night., when she will take the Shanghai Grand Stage to belt our some songs and shake that... [continue]
November 1, 2007
Yes, that was our reaction when we saw these pictures, but sorry to disappoint all you Facebook whores (that includes ourselves!) out there, the image on the right is just a Facebook clone, Xiaonei.com (校内网). It looks like the portal was started around 2005 (less than two years after... [continue]