Friday, April 20, 2007

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).

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

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.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

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.

Monday, April 09, 2007

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.

Sunday, April 08, 2007

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.

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

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/