TOP 10 China Fashion Websites in Feb 2014
According to the latest data released by iResearch, in February 2014, Chinese fashion websites daily user coverage reached 9.18 million. PCLADY ranked the first with average 970,000 daily user...
View ArticleAlimama Challenges Google In Big Data Marketing
Alimama, an Alibaba marketing platform, held a meeting to discuss big data’s influence on marketing transform in Hangzhou on March 20 in 2014. According to the general manager of Alimama, it was going...
View ArticlePWC: 14% Chinese Shopping Online Everyday
PricewaterhouseCoopers released a report on April 8 2014, which found out that Chinese consumers ran ahead of global consumers in online shopping, especially in mobile shopping. The PWC report...
View ArticleCtrip’s Merge With Qunar Will Change China OTA Market
On April 10 2014, news from insiders showed that Baidu’s acquisition of Ctrip was going to finish. Once the acquisition is done, Ctrip will be merged with Qunar. Baidu invested USD 306 million in...
View ArticleWeibo Trending Topic Attracted Massive User Discussion
According to Weibo’s prospectus, Weibo MAU (monthly active users) reached 143.8 million and DAU (daily active users) was 66.6 million in March 2014. Compared to the end of 2013, it grew quite a lot....
View ArticleHighlights News: Baidu PPC Geo-Targeting Upgrades To Prefecture Level
Baidu PPC recently upgraded its Geo-Targeting settings to prefecture-level, which means advertisers could target specific cities of a province for campaigns and ad groups. The picture above shows how...
View ArticleWeibo Q1 Revenue Had 161% YoY Increase in 2014
Weibo stock price rose 19.06% after IPO to USD 20.24, and Weibo’s market value reached USD 4.1 billion on 18 April, 2014. Three days ago, Weibo released its Q1 financial report. It first quarter...
View ArticleChinese Online Cosmetics Retailer Jumei Files For IPO In US
Jumei, a Chinese online cosmetics retailer, filed for IPO in the U.S. on April 12, 2014. Jumei planned to finance for USD 400 million under the ticker “JMEI” in NYSE or Nasdaq, its issuing price has...
View ArticleChina Smartphone Shipments Dropped 24.7% To 100 Mn in Q1 2014
China smartphone shipments dropped for the first time after the consecutively growth of 7 quarters, according to MIIT (Ministry of Industrial and Information Technology), there were 607 new smartphone...
View ArticleChina Smartphone Brand Awareness Analysis in March 2014
According to ZDC China smartphone brand awareness report in March 2014, the number of smartphone manufacturers in China dropped 7 to 98 but the models only dropped 10. Neither global nor Chinese...
View ArticleUnbelievable: 600K Boxes of Milk Sold Out In One Hour
Chinese online B2C enterprise Yihaodian made a Guinness World Record on March 18 in 2014. At 10 am sharp, “Imported Milk Flash Sale” began, 600,000 boxes of milk in 30 containers sold out in merely 52...
View ArticleWeChat To Launch Self-Serve Advertising System In Weeks
WeChat announced on April 12 in 2014, that its self-serve advertising system was about to launch in a few weeks. WeChat subscription accounts will be able to: Apply for and shut down self-serve...
View Article42.8 Mn Mobile Phones Sold Online In China In 2013
iResearch data showed that China mobile phones online sales volume reached 42.8 million and online sales hit 66.39 billion yuan (USD 10.74 billion) in 2013, with over 40% YoY increase. Mobile sale...
View ArticleTencent QQ Peaking Concurrent Users Hit 200 Mn in April 2014
On April 11, 2014, Tencent QQ Peaking Concurrent Users (PCU) hit 200 million for the first time. From 1999 to 2010, QQ users grew steadily to 100 million. In recent four years, QQ grasped mobile...
View ArticleXiaomi Changed Domian Name, Preparing For Going Global
On April 22, 2014, Xiaomi changed its domain name xiaomi.com to mi.com, the original domain name will redirect to mi.com. Except for changing a new domain, Xiaomi’s website redesigned to highlight...
View ArticleTmall Reposition To Target Tier One Cities
On April 16, Wang Yulei (CEO of Tmall) said during an interview that Alibaba decided to reposition Tmall and separate it from Taobao. That is, Tmall targets at fashionista in tier one and tier two...
View ArticleAlibaba To Acquire AutoNavi Completely Fuels Turf War Over Map Data
AutoNavi is almost sure to become food on Alibaba’s plate. According to latest news, the two companies has already nailed an acquisition agreement, meaning that Alibaba will acquire the remaining 72%...
View ArticleBaidu and Alibaba Dominate China Online Advertising Market
According to Enfodesk’s report, in the first quarter of 2014, Baidu accounted for 32.2% China online advertising market, followed by Alibaba with 17.3% share. Google China ranked the third with 5.2%...
View ArticleChina MIIT Published 2014 C-BPI Report
China MIIT (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology) published its C-BPI report on March 30, 2014. The C-BPI report covered 178 industries and 8,500 mainstream brands. 2014 C-BPI report...
View ArticleAlibaba Makes A Strategic Investment of $1.22 Bn In Youku & Tudou
Youku and Tudou officially announced that Alibaba and Yunfeng Capital (founded by Jack Ma and Yu Feng who is board director of Huayi Brothers) purchased Youku and Tudou’s A shares with $1.22 billion,...
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