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.