Those "old" websites in Chinese Internet market

The Chinese websites has developped for only 10 years. The oldest web company is just 10-year old shop. But, the "old" here doesn't mean the concept of time completely, but vitality.

Those web companies, founded between 1997 and 1999, such three portals as sina.com,sohu.com and 163.com, such e-business company as alibaba and dangdang.com, or yesall in online ad field, have becomed ones of influence, dignitary and arrogance. Compared with resources, finance and people occupied by them, the innovation and value that they create has changed a lot. The youth era when they are full of energy has been the past and the growth rate of several hundreds percent has been the far memory.

Not only in China, but aslo in U.S, a lot of peple consider that Yahoo! has grown old, but Yahoo! is only 13 years old. However, compared to 9-year-old Google, Yahoo! has really become senile.

But an intrested thing is that when these "old" companies lost their spirit and have been reduced to traditional ones in Internet industry, it's strange that they are welcome in capital market, such as netsun. There are other "old" companies pondering money in the investor's pockets, such as Alibaba and Dangdang. 10-billion market value of Alibaba seems to come soon, but the 1-billion value of dangdang estimated by itself is really

overstated too much.

Maybe "old" stands for seniority in other industries, but in Internet, the most important thing is innovation. Yahoo! has experienced the change from favored by inversted to thrown by them in only several years. Inverstors find that its organism function is declining, though it can eat normally as usual. Its revenue has increased little, though it has a great number of users.

Of course, there are some "old" companies keeping energy. But, the "old" companies lack of vitality are all very high profile, while some "old" companies maintaining enery are very low profile.

Alimama Soft-Pedal on Test to Public Alibaba Enter into Ad Market

(SINA Tech 12nd Aug) Alibaba Corp. is now entering totally into Ad market and launch Alimama(www.alimama.com), an online ad distributing website,which set up a bridge between advertiser and distributor, after trying to publish Ad system on Taobao.com.

New version has involved such ad categories as real estate, auto, blog etc. and allow users to sell and buy ad placements. It is said by insiders that Alimama will make a unified plan for Alibaba, Taobao and Alipay in the future.

So far, Alibaba has not only owned basic online trade tool such as trade platform, online pay platform and software support, but also provided software support for seller and buyer.

Alibaba now explains nothing to the public. But in the Alimama's official introduction, it is expressed cleared that ad will be displayed in the trade market as commodities. At present, Ad pay method includes PPC(pay per click) and PPT(pay per time). Ad pay type contains text links and images.

Alimama says "there will be more ad types and methods launched soon".

Some watchers expresses that it can attract some large and middle sellers in alibaba and taobao and ad bugets from a lot of mid and small enterprises in China.

Lenovo CEO: Why we consider purchasing Packard Bell?

Lenovo CEO expressed yesterday to the media that they are taking purchase of Packard Bell into account as the part of future growth.

William Amelio, Lenovo CEO, not only proves the report that they intend to acquire this European PC maker factory but also compare it with the historical behavior "purchase of IBM PC". "We are always seeking the growth opportunity. In this key moment, we won't consider other purchase unless the on-going great purchase runs good " Willam Amelio said."This purchase seem to be like the mergence of IBM PC and Lenovo, which goes well in the past 2 years.Now I can ask myself 'When it growes well, do we improve the efficiency?or Is it now better for purchasing?'".

Lenovo has declared the finance result in the week befor this interview. Renenue rate growes with double figure and earing per share growes even 1100%.

Sales in the Americas grows 13%, so company gain the profits. Amelio contribute the growth in the Americas to the "trade model" which they depend on. He expressed that Lenovo would offer more tools for solution providers, do the marketing and expand the business.

"When this task has just had been given to me, people are suspricious and worried about wheter we can communicate with channels well"Amelio says."We expect to relieve these worries and make channels believe taht we will try our best to work with them and find the win-win way. We will be their valuable and indispensable collaborator."

As one of the oldest band in PC industry, Packard Bell was bought by Xu Lixin, founder of eMachine, from NEC and now has been focused on the PC and Electric Production maker in European market.

Altough Lenovo has benefited from IBM purchase and considered acquiring Packard Bell, Amelio expressed clearly that Lenovo won't get into every fields. So Amelio throw cold water on the rumors from high-level manager of Lenovo that they will enter into printer market through acquiring a printer company."We run the printer business in Chinese market, but there is none in other countries of world."Amelio said."This is a good idea like others, but the problem is that when is the best opportunity.So far, we have offered enough."

"I never say that we won't involve the printer business forever" Amelio says."I will say that the time is important. We will make sure that we have the ability to win what we decide to do, according to resources and people. "

Lenovo acquire exclussive negotiation with packard. Acer maybe has gone out.

(SINA Tech 9th Aug) It is confirmed from Lenovo insider that Lenovo has conducted the exclussive negotiation with Packard, an European PC maker, while Acer perhaps has been out ahead in this purchase around.

20:07 7th Aug. Lenovo Corp claimed to acquire Packard Bell. SINA Tech has reported that the purchasing obeject of Acer, which has been discussed for long time, is just Packard Bell.

It is said by foreign media taht Xu Lixin, the owner of Packard Bell,denied that Acer had been involved in this aqusition. But Wang Daoxiong, the senior manager of PR in Acer, has implied in the end of June that Acer was definitely deliberating with Packard Bell about purchasing.

People concerned think that Xu Lixin's denial has not only proved the rumor that the negotiation between Lenovo and Packard Bell is exclussive, but also displayed both progress of negotiation. A hearsay, not proven by Lennovo officals, is that both sides has clinched the cooperation basiclly and they are waiting for declaring to the public.Acher has been kickked out.

Foreign team of Lennovo is understood to be responsible for the deal, not including Great China region of Lennovo who yet make no comments on it.

Baidu carry out the news portal strategy

(Donews 2007-8-7)
Recently, Baidu has updated the news channel which is closer to a news portal now.

Sohu IT contacts with a person concerned in PR dept of Baidu and he admits that there is no any propaganda for this new edition of news channel.All staffs are preparing for BaiduWorld, so they won't accept the interview and tell any related information.

When explaining the reason for the action, he says "Baidu's orginal business has reached a congestion under development in these years. While its oversea expansion is not pleasure, it will consider further development of national business. For the low requirements of web news, the construction of Baidu news channel will be a important direction."

Baidu got a news license and recruited a lot of news editor, which leads to this new edition. At the same time, Baidu will hold BaiduWorld. Baidu will put forward the IM and Email services and confirm there new media strategy.

It is said that news channel, as important part of Baidu new media strategy, contribute few traffics. According to statistic report by independent company, news channel only occupy 1% of whole traffic. Qu Xiaodong claims that Baidu will increase further investment on news channel to improve Page Views and Users with the aim to rise the Ad revenue. The key goal of Baidu is to become a media giant.

News Reported China.com Acquired Shanghai-Based Online Business Department of Optisp

Donews, May 27 It is reported by Optisp stuff that China.com will acquire Shanghai-based online business department of Optisp, not the whole company.

Ye Keyong, CEO of China.com Game Business, claimed through an first press with Shanghai media that China.com Game Company will invest 300million dollars to develop business by acquire strategy and plan to be listed on the second seaon of 2008.

An insider said that Ye Keyong conferred on the acquiring with CITIC secrectly when he was in Shanghai.

The news was proved by a high-level manager of Optisp.

Founded on Feb, 1999 and entered into online industry at Martch 2003, Optisp, so far, have owned online game operation, wireless operation, software research and development, Optisp data center and production marketing business groups with 8 branches in Beijing, Shanghai,Guangzhou,Wuha,Xian,Jinan,Chengdu and Shenyang.

Chinese Version of Feedburner Withdrawed for Translation Quality

(News Source: Sina Tech May 20th. )

The two beta versions of Chinese simplified and complicated translation of feedburner just published last week has been withdrawn from the language select catalog, for a lot of feedback on not good translation quality from the users. The famous blogger He Cai tou confirmed that he was responsible for the translation of feedburner before.

Some word are input below the original language downlist: More choices are coming soon. Where did Chinese go? We heard your feedback and we're taking it back to the shop for more work. Thanks for having your say!

Insiders say that it's careless to put forward the Chinese Feedburner, especially the translation.

FireFox Plan to Compete Straight With Microsoft into Chinese Market

Mozilla(FireFox browser) are preparing for entering into China, perhaps the fastest, largest Internet market in the future, to acquire users in the global competition with Microsoft.

John Lilly, Mozilla COO, and Chirs Beard, the VP of marketing, are going to arrive in the mainland recently with paying series of PR visiting and doing research to decide the final plan.

Before, FireFox(FireFox browser) has been installed by Chinese users without official marketing campaign.

Jerry Yang admit Yahoo(China) current situation not good

It is reported by foreign media that Yahoo will annouce to accquire Right Media, a U.S online Ad trade platform provider. Jerry Yang,co-founder of Yahoo, said on Wednesday he would recommend Jack Ma, CEO of Alibaba, to run such type of trade platform in China.
　　
Jerry Yang delivered this speech above at the conference in California with over 1000 high-tech entrepreneurs from China and U.S, referring to opportunities and challenges with the China rapid growth.　　

"I will call Jack Ma, telling him the idea about ad trade platform" Jerry Yang said "a large business opportunity included."

Aug 2005, Yahoo took 40 percent share of Alibaba with 10 billions dollars and Alibaba owned the right to run Yahoo(China) as a exchange.

Jerry Yang said that Yahoo and Alibaba should "catch up with competitor" in Chinese search and portal business, but he estimated the situation reversed untill at least several years later.

"All in all, so far we are considering the deal right, but it's too early to judge whether the collabroration succeed or not." Jerry Yang said "Two sides getting interest from collaboration between China and American companies is the best strategy."

Guge collaborate with China Telecom, supporting Ad services for the affiliated network

(News Source: Sohu.com)

It is reported by Sohu IT that Goolge China has collaborated with China Telecom, providing online Ad services for websites owned by Telecom.

This is another step taken by Google to enlarge Chinese market. At the beginning of this year, Google announced mobile search services cooperated with China Telecom. In addition, Google,with Ceyuan Ventures, invested donwload software, Xunlei.

It is reported that China Telecom is now having over 400 websites , some of them as local portal with high traffic.

Today, Google has published the Q1 financial result(till Mar 3rd).

The Plan of changing Yahoo China name has been stopped by headquarters.

It is reported by insiderman taht the plan of exchanging "Yahoo China" into "China Yahoo" has been canceled for some reasons.

There are some words spread that Yahoo China had decided to change name as "China Yahoo" on April 18th to show their determination of "localization" and "independent". However, ahead of publishing the news, headquarter in U.S has stopped the plan.

Cai Wensheng share experiences about raising fundings: look VC as free consultant

April 12nd, Cai Wensheng share his own 3 points about how to negotiate with VC.

1. The entrepreneur should learn of VC's backgrounds. For example, he spent one night time to find these people's background files before visiting VC. It helped him a lot when talking with VC.
2. The entrepreneur is not good at evaluating. Generally speaking, people will decide the price via search capital cap of other's company on the Internet. In fact, you can ask VC to evaluate the price of company.
3. The entrepreneur should consider VC as a free adviser. VCs always point out a lot of problems existing in the operation of company. This a a good chance for yourself to introspection.
   

Tecent Interactive QQ Production Integrated with Online Game Vertical

There is a word that SUN,operated by The9 will be displayed publicly on April 18th.The9 will register a customized interactive QQ(40906633) for the game "SUN".Tecent will provide specialized technology and customers support and put forward unique topic for gamers in the game channel.”

Liu Shengyi, VP of Tecent, said that Tecent's interactive platform is very compelling no matter from the need of customers to more marketing opportunities and spaces.

It is said by Tecent that the combination is Tecent's first contact with e-game industry. Tecent prepare specialized technology for this cooperation, providing unlimited users into the group and related value-added services support.

The integration fo interacitve and online game in not only the start of strategic collaboration based on platform and integrated business, but also the symbolization of Internet enterprise's innovation and exploitation. Combination like this will be trend in the future, even developing more kinds of multi-fields cooperation.

Guge deliver a declaration once more: apologize to sohu definitely
(News resource: DoNews.com)

April 9th, Guge made another declaration in their official blog to apology to suhu.

April 8th, Guge admitted publicly that part of their Chinese library of Chinese input method didn't come from themselves, appologying for it. April 9th, Guge made second declaration and said that new version library wouldn't misappropriate others.

FireFox browser will enter into Chinese market, competing directly with Microsoft

Mozilla(FireFox browser) is preparing for occupying Chinese market to gain users in the fastest growth and the largest Internet market scale in the future with competition for Microsoft in the global scope.

John Lilly, Mozilla COO, Chirs Beard, VP of marketing and some Asia-pacific officials will reach the mainland with these days. They will decide the final plan through PR visit and research.

FireFox has been download for a lot of times in China before, but they didn't start any marketing campaign.

Guge.cn Release Chinese Character Input Tool with 10.1M

This afternoon, Guge.cn offered officially Guge character input to be download.

It is introduced by Guge.cn that the specialist of Guge input tool add some network functions besides large dictionaries, such as users's customized phrase be tied with the gmail server. In addition, the web url can be input directly under the condition of Chinese input besides supporting search bar .

download url: http://tools.google.com/pinyin/

Yahoo! Assist released the specialized uninstall tool.

Recently, Yahoo! Assist, complained by netizen for a long time, put forward the uniinstall tool to announce in the official blog that the behavior is to "avoid result of third-party software uncomplete uninstalling ". An anti-virus people said that the action mean Yahoo commiting their past way.

Besides, Yahoo(China) will also be updated. March 5th, Rising Inc, domestic anti-virus company,announce that Yahoo! Assist won't be considered as malicious. Before that, Yahoo! Assist software were thought of malicious by netizen.

The Internet Map Services Rank List: Search Engine has prior

(News Source: DoNews.com)
The data by DCCI(www.dcci.com.cn) shows that search engine has big advantage among the e-map services list.

It can be seen from the reporter that map services by Baidu.com has ranked No.1, with the dependent map site Chinamap.com No.2 and Go2map acquired by sogou.com the third.

Farmers and works will be the target users for mobile phone TV.
(New Source: DoNews)


It is estimated by Xie Wenbing, in the sixth International Mobile Communication Industry Forum and Exhibition, that the users of mobile phone TV will not be the bussinessman level but workers level.

Comparing the workers, business people have more wide range of channels to get information, so mobile phone TV will meet the need of workers who want to know news more well.
If mobile phone TV can solve two problems about pricing and speed, it will be popular within the workers. The successful case in India has proved it.

Xie Wenbing analyzed that the terminal is, at present, the largest challenge. He said that it will bring more pressure to the mobile end with the cable services into the wireless ones in coming 3 or 5 years. The production vendors will face the challenge on how to make the terminal keeping the pace with the development of services, trying to consuming less battery, maintaining the small size of screen and the light weight.

赛迪网总编朱启明近期离职
Zhu qiming, chief editor of CCID, has resigned recently

(News Source: donews.com)

It is reported that Zhu qiming, the chief editor of CCID, will resign to join the operation of a production guidance website.

A insider said that team lacking collaboration and plans with difficulty in executing were the main reason of his resignation.

Providing 3G service before the Olympic Games doesn't mean to giving 3G license.

Yesterday, Lou qinjian, vice-minister of Information Industry, claimed during an interview that providing 3G service and giving 3G license seem not to be the same thing. It is analyzed by some experts that 3G license may will not be given before the Olympic Games.

Yoqoo has cooperated with 3 TV sites about the contents.

Recently, Victor, CEO of Yoqoo, expressed that Yoqoo, a video-sharing site, has reached a agreement on content collaboration with 3 TV sites.

It is reported that the partner are CETV，BTV and STV. The cooperative items include providing some source materials for certain columns of these TV sites.

Before the collaboration, Yoqoo has ever coopertated with CCTV in a event about the ShenYang Snow, offering the videos by users mobile phones and DC.

Flickr, Yahoo! online photo-sharing site, will release Chinese version with core function.

(News Source: Sohu IT Tech)

Yahoo! is reported to unveil online photos service with traditional Chinese interface , Flickr.com.

A Yahoo news speaker testify the information to the press in HongKong. The Chinese version would have many core functions as the English one, he said.

The newsreporter didn't mention when to put forward the simplified Chinese web photos in the mainland.

Generally speaking, netizens in mainland can also understand the traditonal Chinese and use the traditional Chinese Internet service.

Guge Shanghai-based research center is initiated, specializing in AdWords localization.

It is reported that Guge Shanghai research center has decided company location, pushing forward to the progress of localization research and development work.

A person concerned said that some office building close to Nanjing Road and People Square had been selected . Kaifu Lee expressed before that the direction of research center in Shanghai would be the Ads system.

It is analyzed that Guge AdWords localization tasks have been started ahead of selecting company address. The progress of developing Chinese AdWords has been introduced in the Guge's official blog. The system of Guge Chinese AdWords help, register and feedback has been unveiled. Chinese users can learn and register AdWords with the Chinese pages.

The 06 revenue of Chinese search ads is 1.571 billion.

It is expected by DCCI, the Chinese search ad market will rise 48.2% in 2007, the size of market to 2.328 billion. the size in 2008 will be estimated to 3.273 billion .

According to the data released by DCCI, the total earnings of Internet ads composed with brand ads and search engine ads has reached 6.55 billion.

The size of brand ads(4.98 billion ) still highly surpasses that of search engine ads(1.571 billion).
The growth rate of brand ads i 2007 is also higher than that of search engine ads.

the picture shows the revenue size of Chinese search engine ads and rate statistic:

Kaifu Lee takes action to initial offline advertise campaign of Google(China).

Facing with the drop market share, Google(China), being always spread by word of mouth, will make offline advertising campaign in China.

A insider said to TechWeb that Shanghai-based hotsales network, an agency of Google(China), had recently provided some customers' profiles to guge. Guge plans to deliver outdoor ads focusing on the place where their customers always passed by.

The insiderman said that Google(China) had given a list of 700 key customers to hotsales firm. Because of 500 companies out of 700 in Shanghai, they decide to test advertising campaign in Shanghai.If the result is good, they will put the pattern to the whole domestic major city. The interesting point is that the important customers listed by Google(China) are not the customers whose volumn of ad deliveries are huge but the high fame.

Cui jing, the PR manager of Google(China), didn't manifest the news. She expressed that she was only in charge of the PR affairs, knowing little about the ad events.

Baidu will set up Japanese subsidiary company, preparing for the search service

It is reported by overseas media that a insider said that Baidu had established the subsidiary company which would be unclosed at the end of month.

A person concerned said that Baidu Corp had registered Japanese portal website: www.baidu.jp, uner the last procedure of preparation for releasing the service.

Chen haiteng, the representative of Baidu(Japan), claimed on the web noticeboard:"We will provide the Japanese search service. At present, we are crawling the Japanese websites pages with spider ." Now, the site, www.baidu.jp, has only one page without the link to the service.

Robin Li, Chairman of Baidu board, expressed last month that they planned to invest 15million dollars in Japan, no schedule of Japanese subsidiary company or Japanese search service.

Xinhua Financial Media listed on Nasdaq this evening, raising to 4 million dollars

（News Source: Chinaventure）
Xinhua Financial Media(Nasdaq: XFML) will be listed on Nasdaq this evening, securing 3715 million dollars at most.

The IPO will issue 23.07 million shares, 12 to 14 dollars per share with J.P Morgan, UBS and CIBC as the underwriters.

Xinhua Financial Media is affiliated with Xinhua Financial , Inc., involving the related media resources of Xinhua Financial in China. Xinhua Financial is a listed company of startup board in Tokyo stock exchange with the number 9399.

Xinhua Financial Media is founded on Nov 7th of 2005. The company business covers 5 fields: TV Ads, paper ads, content services, comprehensive commercials and market research, serving
Chinese rapid growth high-level businessmen through the channels of TV,broadcasting, paper and magazine.

The earnings of Chinese map services in 2006 is 148 million

According to the data by DCCI Internet Data Center(www.dcci.com.cn), the total revenue of web map service is 148 millions.

It is estimated by DCCI that the whlole market of map service will rise 102.7% to 300 millions RMB and 500 millions RMB in 2008.

The picture below show the statistic of map service market and growth rate:

Tom Group Limited plans the privatization of Tom online

It is reported by Hong Kong media that Tom Group and Tom online both suspended yesterday, and the former said that they would release the plan of the Tom online's privatization.

Guge plans to enlarge the number of engineers , recruiting stuffs from Baidu

It is reported by overseas media that Google will double the number of Chinese engineers to improve the business in China.

Kaifu Lee, the president of Google in China region, said in an press last friday that the company will rise the number of engineers to 200 or 300 in a year.Till now, there are totally over 100 engineers in guge. Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, also said last April that the Beijing-based development center will employ thousands people to provide new type services for Chinese 137million netizens. In January, Google release such services as Internet map and datagrid with the expect to occupy more market share from Baidu.


Florian Pihs, the assistant VP of Analysys International, a market research company, said last Friday:"Google begins to hunt people from competitor, Baidu. But Google faces the fierce competition from Microsoft and so on". Analysys International has ever researched and investigated the situation of the employment of engineers by foreign enterprises.

Last Friday, Kaifu Lee claimed that Google prepares for building a research and development center this summer in Shanghai. But he did not report more detailed things.Meanwhile, he said that Google will officially put forward the news about the Shanghai-based research and development center in the coming several weeks.

According to the data by Analysys International, in the 4th quarter of 2006, the search engine market share of Google was 17% in China, higher than last quarter to 16%.At the same time, the market share of Baidu also rose 57% to 58%, while Yahoo stopped at 13%.Kaifu Lee said that Google had began to provide the Chinese book search service from last Friday. In December of past year, Google set up the partnership with China Mobile, servicing Chinese mobile users for searching.

(News source: Donews.com)

View of the most largest palace in Qing dynasty

China's SNS revenues are 385million in 2006 with the estimation of 839 million in 2008.

According to the date by DCCI(www.dcci.com.cn)， the revenues of China's SNS service provider are 385million in 2006.

The DCCI forecasts that the earnings of Internet video will rise 51.2%, up to 582 million in 2007,and 839 million expected in 2008.

The chart below is the statistic of revenue from China's SNS service provider:

2007 culture blue book reveals the new regulatory policy of the Chinese government to blog.

Zhang xiaoming claims that till the end of June last year, the frequent bloggers have reached 28 million in China , while 150 million at the end of 2005.
He thinks the number has risen dramatically. "The trend indicates that 'new entertainment era' is coming".

He says that blogger as a kind of "creator" has increasing influence, so the state department concerned will issue policies at the proper time to strengthen the regulation of this new media.
Meanwhile, he also expresses that these regulatory policies are under the research and China is keeping up with the world at the aspect.

Lenovo.Inc plans to lay off 1000 employees, including 400 staffs in the region of Great China

It is reported by overseas media that Lenovo Groups continue the process of corporation restructure, laying off about 1000 employees in global, 400 employees in the region of Great China included.

The news quoted what an insider said that the action will be taken recently. Lenovo needs to pay 60million dollars for layoffs, but the company will save 150millions per year.

Lenovo has ever structured on March last year with laying off 1000 employees to integrate global marketing and office support function.

The request for Google's getting Chinese domain name(www.gmail.cn) has failed.

City Netizen Spend 2 Hours on the Internet Per Day

The data, from the report released by CTR market research organization, show that netizen of Chinese cities spend 2 hours on the web per day.

The report says that the average time of surfing the web for Chinese has grown rapidly in the past 5 years, 88.5 minutes in 2002 to 137.8 minutes in 2006.

The people in charge of media and production research department in CTR claims that the average time daily which people spend on the web will surpass the average time on TV in 2007 with the present growth rate , becoming the longest time of media for netizen

The report also shows that the share of netizen in home increase steadily while the share of netizen in net bar decreases sharply. The main place for people surfing the web are in-home and in-company.

Baidu(Nasdaq: BIDU) will spend $ 150 million into Japanese market

Baidu(Nasdaq: BIDU) release Q4 and 2006 earning results early today. Then, Robin Li, CEO of Baidu.com and Shawn Wang, CFO of Baidu.com deliver a call conference, answering the questions from analysist.

Shawn Wang claims that Baidu.com plans to invest $150 million in the Japanese market, including recruiting staff, web construction and daily operation. Robin Li says that the company will recruit Chinese and Japanese employees simultaneously and put servers in Japan to realize the localization.

Robin Li reveals that the domain for Japanese web is www.baidu.jp. Baidu.com preparing for the Japanese market two and three quarters ago.

Purchasing on the Web challenge traditional shop mall

Spring festival is coming, people have new way of purchasing. Besides traditional supermarket are preparing for the goods actively, such e-commerce as PaiPai.com,Taobao.com and eBay all offer specialized commodities pages for the consumers.

Lucy is a white-collar officer working for a consulting firm, accessing frequently to PaiPai.com and Taobao.com. To prepare for the coming Spring Festival, she begin to buy goods from the Internet."The common things for the Spring Festival can be bought at the supermaket, but some specialities will be get from the web.There are a lot of special store selling the local specialities with a wide range and proper price. And it's convenient to special delivery."

Lucy said that there are some colleagues surrounded her also preparing for the merchandise on the web."A lot of colleagues which will return home land hope to bring back some special goods. There is a wide range of goods on the web, so you can find what you want easily."

"The web apps prevailing add more and more fashionable factor into the traditional festival. There are challenges to the off-line mart with the rise of web purchasing."a insider said.

9th City will pay $ 350million to WebZen, refreshing the new record of export of Korean games

It was reported by foreign media that WebZen, a Korean game development, claimed to create a new record of game export in Korea, earning $ 350 million through the trade of selling operation right of in China.

Recently, 9th City has confirmed that they signed a contract with WebZen about the shooting web game , but they told the details.

The Revenue of C2C e-commerce Websites Reach 21.6 billion

According to the data of DCCI Internet Data Centre, the revenue of C2C e-commerce websites have reached 21.6 billion.

It is expected that the revenue of C2C e-commerce websites in China will increase at the rate of 3.81% in 2007 to 41.2 billion in 2008.

(The orange colum represent the scale of C2C. The line is the trend for the increase rate)

The Former Blizzard Staff Resign to Start Up

Feb 5th, the RED 5 studio, composed of former "Warcraft of the World" core creative team, claimed that a co-headquarter would be set up in Shanghai.

RED 5 Studio's aim is to develop MMOs. This company will design and develop north-America- and-Asia-oriented productions with collaboration separately in Shanghai and California.

RED 5 has raised 150 million RMB as the series-B fund invested by BENCHMARK CAPTITAL and SIERRA VENTURES, for the construction of global studio. SIERRA is one of the strategy investor of GOBI VENTURES, which is a venture capital company in Shanghai, focusing on the digital media field.

Now, the Asia-pacific region has been the largest online games market. It was surveyed that 25% of the users in this region played MMOGs. The demestic consumption has reached more than 3.9 billion RMB per year in China.

The China web apps research top3:search, portal, Email

The Internet association declare that the statistic shows that the search, portal web and e-mail are the most frequent services the netizen use when they are surfing the web.

The data,released by DCCI International Data Centre indicates,shows that:
The search engine is the No.1 web application with 89.74 percent user reach rate. The portal website and E-Mail have seperately 89.08% and 87.83% user reach rate, ranking the second and third on the list.

DoNews(beijing) Feb 9th: Google(China) officially release the "map" channel on the index page.
Meanwhile, the date service supported by the map service provider www.mapabc.com has been largely modified.

Goolge begin to recruit 20 production managers, speeding the process of localization

The journalist, logging on to the job page of Google(China), finds that production managers are being recruited in the large scale.

Then Google(China) news reporter confirmed the finding.

DoNews: Sohu.com claims the assignment, promoting two women as co-chairman.

3 investment bankers are focusing on the Internet, sina.com and sohu.com will benefit most.

IDG Huge Shong: China is not an "investor heaven" but an "entrepreneur heaven".

Feb 2nd 2007: Huge Shong considered that there were too much investment entering into China in 2005 and 2006. The situation is good for entrepreneur to acquire investment easily.But investor should spend more time and energy to estimate and analyse the focused project.

And, Huge Shong held that the massive investment pouring into the market would result in the deficiency of the additional funding.　　

The famous Chinese IT blogger Keso now is leaving DoNews.com

Qihoo offer 100 million RMB bounty for the criminal to prove itself innocent

DoNews Beijing: Qihoo today launch the action of "bounty for criminal". From now on, the people who can offer the clues about the malicious software developer have the chance to be rewarded 100 million RMB from Qihoo. At the same time , the netizen who can prove "360 safe guard" to leave a back door confirmed by the third authorities will also get the reward.

Qihoo says that they hope to inspire the large netizen's initiative and expose the rogue software creator with the aim to restrict the wide spread of malware from the source. The campaign will last for the long time. In the 2007, if the clue help the policy to crack the case, the provider will be rewarded by Qihoo.

The Qihoo newsreporter declares that some malware companies begin to struggle for their own interest.They fabricated the news"Qihoo make the my123 various",then trumped up the story "360 safe guard leave a back door".Qihoo cann't bear these ridiculous rumors.

This campaign started by Qihoo not only prove 360 safe guard innocent, but also display the determination of Qihoo's insisting on the promise "Don't be evil".

Taobao.com, the largest C2C platform in the Asia, is claiming recently that the ban of virtual-goods trades is equal to strangling the e-games industries.

On the 30th, microsoft claims that the 50percent of the customer services of the new generation operation system Windows Vista has been decided to put in China.
The company added that the reason is not the cheap labor, but many engineers participating in the development of Vista. Zhang yaqin, senior vice president of microsoft, introduced that there are more than 100 functions supported by Chinese engineers in the three base system(Windows vista,2007 Microsoft Office system 和Exchange Server 2007) newly released.

Jack Ma in the Davos International Economic Forum
"Ten years ago, I borrowed 2000 dollars to set up a web company, without any belief in my success.At that time the web chat room wasn't permitted, but now there is no question." said Jack Ma,the chairman and CEO of Alibaba.com Corporation, in the Swiss Davos International Economic Forum.

The company depending on the Jack Ma's 2000 dollars were "China yellow page", the first Chinese business information website which early form the enterprise-oriented Internet business model.

Jack Ma said that Internet has changed everyone's scope in the Davos International Economic Forum. Just ten years ago, such e-commerce platform as alibaba.com weren't be taken into consideration to have a large effect on the growth of economy, the advancement of society and the improvement of common people living.

The issue of this term forum are focused on the collaboration between the media, government and enterprise.

"I have just been to the Europe and U.S, finding the western society pay attention to the copyright protection. I have been asked about the Internet censorship for many times. I answered that there are also several edition rumors about myself.In China, every family only have one Child, so, I think, it is necessary to think highly of Internet education and control for the sexual websites and violence in the games."

The Olympic Games Journalists Will Enjoy Wireless access without configuration.

During the Olympic Games, the journalists, busy with the "news war", will enjoy card-inserted broadband service never before in the communication history of the Olympic Games.The users,without configuration, can log on to the web easily, upload the photos as soon as possible and spread the excellent performing to the public.

Iresearch: tudou.com analysis

1. The overview of Tudou.com

Tudou.com is earlier video sharing platform. The platform began running at April 2005.Tudou.com provide a platform on where users can easily release and collect individual video. Thereare 350,000 registered users and 250,000 video clips, among which 60 percent are original with 4000 clips uploaded daily and 3 millions clicks per day.

2. Platform core competitieness

1. business model

Tudou.com release"Toodou Ad" on March 2006, meaning that the commercial will be inserted into the video uploaded with the prerequisite of users applying for Toodou Ad service.

The revenue will be split for content provider and the website. If the user account reaches 100 yuan , the user can take out the money from Toodou. The presuppositon is that the commercial is inserted into the content. Now, there have already been such brands as Bayer Medicine, ebay.com.cn,youxi.cn and Kia.

2. integration with other trades

Todou.com take positive and sensible attitude to incorporate with other industries. Now Todou.com has signed the contract with Shanghai eastdragon mobile information company,preparing for the 3G's coming. Todou.com also provide some videos for the DV365
program in Shanghai Channel, permeating through the TV field.

With the development of 3G and the mature of IPTV, providing original works for the cell phone and TV may be the new profit point of Tudou.com.

3. The capital edge

Tudou.com has raised two rounds of funds, $ 8oo,ooo and $ 8.5 millions, which got more than other video sharing platform. The capital offer economy security for the continuous development in the future.

Tecent alert users to the danger of stealing number

Yesterday, Tecent gave an announcement that the users should be cautious about the message about remittance from QQ good friends.
Once the user found the account stolen, they should modify the password and password protection question and answer immediately.

Recently, with more and more QQ accounts stolen and affected by virus, there are an increasing number of such messages spread on the web as requring remittance, cheated information and dialing the telephone, resulting in the loss of economy.

The annoucement said that stealing number is a illegal behavior. Tecent will cooperate with the police to strike web deceit in the name of Tecent, steal the QQ number and threat the security of QQ users.

It is learned form Kingsoft that there are no ways of solving and blocking the deceit case happening through the QQ number stolen in the view of anti-virus.

Google(China) maybe turn to the mp3 search with the aim to rise the market share

Google(China: google.cn) plan to provide mp3 search services secretly. Now the project is under the evaluation. But Google(China) news reporter said that there weren't any news about it till now.

Baidu.com (BIDU) is incorporating a lot of Ad agencies secretly, permeating through the traditional industry more.

Baidu.com (BIDU) is incorporating a large number of traditional Ad companies to strengthen the absolute control ability of commercials sales.
The news spread widely and rapidly recently in the field of advertising. It is obviously that Baidu.com, the NO.1 search company in China is seeking more security for own profitable prospect.

It was said that the targeted companies were original agencies of baidu's advertising service. With the increasing of the baidu's market share, the competitive ranking business, a service providing ad in the result of the search, accounted for 80% of its revenue as the most important source of earning.

A insider who knew of baidu's ad agents well said that the commercial companies got a good agent price from it when baidu was expanding their early selling structure at the beginning of the baidu business. But now these ad agencies have set up their own mature sales team besides good performance , lower cost than that of the baidu's sales department.

"It is the fastest method through acquiring for baidu's sales interest and cost control" said the insider.

The motivation of this action is clear. Baidu should provide much salary and option. The contrary situation is that the salary of the employee in the ad company is jsut 50%.The option is a dream for these staff of the ad agencies.

Baidu will group these companies and sales department as a dependent sales channel. According to the judgement , the laid off will happen. However, till now, there aren't any definite news in the scope of the baidu's ad agencies.

Now the incorporation plan is being implemented rapidly, surprising many insiders for the progress of the action. Some analysit even infers that they will acquire more good ad companies to enlarge its revenue source, that means " paying for earning ".

A realistic background: the wall street are putting more pressure on baidu with higher standard of profit. Baidu have to take some measure to show the determination of profit-making and cost-controlling.But the investor worried about it.

116.com.cn: acquiring web news license, preparing for sales

DoNews（Beijing） Jan. 22nd (reporter Xu xinshi):

It is reported that the first broadband portal website (www.116.com.cn) in China has acquired Internet news information service license permitted by the State Council Information Office.

116.com.cn was founded at the beginning of 2004 with 500M registered capital. Chinanetcom accounted for 40% of the registered capital and IDG occupied 30% of that. But then Chinanetcom withdrew investment gradually for the confliction of own broadband business since Mar 31st 2006.

At the beginning of 2006, Shanda wanted to obtain the IPTV license plate indirectly through acquiring 116.com.cn when it implete the "shanda box"
business plan.

It is said that there are totally three weibsites get the Internet news licenses, plus baidu and hexun. The news will be annouced by the State Council Information Office later.

DoNews: Top 10 web mouth war in China

1. Yahoo! VS Qihoo
It is detonated that 360 safe listed Yahoo! assist as malicious software.Then from Zhou hongyi's judgement on his subordinate Tianjian ，to Jack Ma's persuading Jerry Yang to hamper Zhou hongyi's raising funds. The war seemed to be endless?

2. Tecent VS Taobao

Tecent not only encouraged sellers in Taobao to transfer to his own website as his invasion of e-commerce, but also hired the PR company to complete some goal. Taobao have to solve these problems by Tecent's business actions.

3、Yesky VS baidu (BIDU )

The judges totally agreed that the mouth battle was enough fierece although it last short.

4. Kingsoft, Netease VS zhengtu
"Striking Netease down","challenging Shi yuzhu", The slogan by Kinsoft sounded all aggressive.

5 Zhang bao quan VS Fu guo

6 Lenovo VS Dell
In 2006, a email denotated a battle in the IT industry.

7. argument of double Duo Core between Intel and AMD
The war is so fierce that management of AMD displayed the inside of Intel cpu on public with small knife .

8. xunlei VS newhua
People's attitude toward the news changed from commiseration of newhua first to discrimination of it finally.

9. Han han VS Bai ye
The most influent debating in the blogsphere of China.

10 sina VS sohu
Nobody can tell clearly who "win" the news report of world cup and commercial ads.

IBM and Yahoo! release free enterprise search software

Today, IBM and Yahoo! publish search software for enterprises-- IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition.

On the official homepage, it is learned that IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition is a free search software solution. It help website and web app manager and developer to set up search engin oriented to Internet, Intranet and file system, serving for the enterprise staff and consumers. Developers can integrate search function into web and browser application without mass of codes.

Such service provider that provider search service for the enterprise as BIDU and GOOG maybe get nervous about the action.

If u r wanna try it, click the URL to download free version IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition
http://ibm.com/developerworks/ecma/campaign/er.jsp?id=226116

Saddam's half-brother hanged.

萨达姆兄弟执行死刑

ICBC is claiming to be the largest web company in the coming 10 years.
"Industry&Commercial Bank of China plan to be not only one of the largest banks, but also the largest one of the web companies." said Jiang Jianqing, the president of ICBC.

Jiang Jianqing ,a common bank accountant as his first work, now is responsible for the ICBC operation with 27 year's hard work.

It is reported that non-performing loan was one trillion in 2001. But now, bad-loan ratio has been reduced dramaticlly from 47.5% to 3.8%.

My Life

These days I live a dispirited life. I wake up at 10:30 a.m with sleeping at 3:30 p.m .
I think it's not my life I want. But if my roommates play Warcraft, I can't help running the game with him.

Despite the situation, I spare some time to read a biography about Morgan-- the most great banker in 19 century.

China's 2006 trade surplus is going to his something on the order of 177 billion.

China's 2006 entire foreign favorable trade has reached 177billion, 1.74 times of the 2005. Trade surplus in December is 21 billion, keeping active trade balance for the 32nd month running.

The sharp reduction of rate of import in December play role of the keeping huge surplus.
The growth rate of import 13.5% in December is the lowest among the 2006.

The growth rate of import in Nov is 18.3%, 14.7% in Oct, 22% in Sept, 24.6% in Aug, 19.7% in July, 18.9% in June, 21.7% in May, 15.3% in Apr, 21.1% in Mar, 29.6% in Feb and 25.4% in Jan.

Meanwhile, the growth rate of export in Dec is increasing steadily.

The growth rate of export in Nov is 32.8%, 29.6% in Oct,30.6% in Sept, 32.8% in Aug, 22.6% in July, 23.3% in June, 25.1% in May, 23.9% in Apr, 28.3% in Mar, 22.3% in Feb and 28.1% in Jan.

Today, I received the Mayday's CD reserved through web.
I like their style of the song.
They call the songs as "rock poem",lovely, I like the name.

This CD has great difference with their ever songs in the rhythm.
But if u listen to it more times, u will love it.

Among the 13 songs, I especially like the song "wangci" that means remember what I wanna talk to u.

Today, I finished my examination of the communication. I thought that I could pass it. God bless me.
Then I will have 4 more days to review rest lessons.

Stock Thoughts

I've read a article written by a blogger who is a banker.
His blog is very interesting and useful, so I recommend u to read it if u understand Chinese :)

Here lists his ideas about Chinese stocks in 2007.

Industry is more important than company.
If u a VC, choosing industry is more important than companies.
In a new industry, there are less competition than in traditional one.
But, if u buy stocks, excellent company maybe a better choice for u.

I only earn what I can earn.
The stock price rose to 16.8 yuan from 6yuan when I sold it.
The price maybe up continuously, but P/E ratio has worried me a little.
I hold that the P/E upon the reasonable level is dangerous.

I will decide partly on the professional advice and analysis.
Firstly, I am busy with my work with less time and energy on the stocks.
Secondly, the stocks analysis and reports conducted by the professions is informative.

China Telecom has claimed that it will launch the new cables evading the earthquake regions between China and the United States by 2008.
People, especially netizen, began to care about the communication safety from China to other countries.
The quakes, which hit Taiwan several days agao, cut off the mainlanders from access to the overseas websites and international calls.
People, such as foreign stuff, trader,and netizen, were affected during these days.

The authority said that it will take up to 3 weeks to finish the repairs when the most people hope the cables to be repaired as soon as possible.