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The two beta versions of Chinese simplified and complicated translation of feedburner just published last week has been withdrawn from the language select catalog, for a lot of feedback on not good translation quality from the users.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: