Nielsen: Chinese Consumer Confidence Maintains High in Q1 2014
Consumer confidence: China v.s. US vs GlobalChinese consumer confidence remained high in the first quarter of 2014 as in the previous quarter, higher than the same time period in the previous year and...
View ArticleSogou Launched Wechat Search
Sogou has just launched a search feature for Wechat public accounts and articles published via Wechat public accounts. For Wechat article searches, recent articles seem to have higher rankings on the...
View ArticleSina Weibo to Launch Smartphone Apps for Sellers
Weibo.com announced last week they are opening up its Weibo Payment for third parties including both businesses and individuals. This week, some images are leaked on China internet showing the...
View ArticleAre Chinese Celebrities’ Sharing or Advertising on Weibo?
Chinese Celebrity Yang Mi sharing her personal experience using a silky soapPaid posts on Weibo without any disclosure are no more secrets in China and those postings are disguised as personal sharing...
View ArticleWeibo.com Eyeing for More Revenue with We Media Program
Weibo.com has launched a new program for “we media” to encourage more unique and quality content creation on Weibo. Weibo “We Media” Program is for verified individual Weibo accounts to apply, whose...
View ArticleMonitor China Online Shoppping Trend with Alibaba Shopping Price Indices
Alibaba publishes a price index for online shopping, called Alibaba Shopping Price Indices or aSPI. This series include two indices: aSPI, based on cost of living theory When usually a single...
View ArticleChina Mobile Maps Market Overview
The top three mobile maps in China are Baidu Maps, Baidu Navigation and Google Maps, according to a survey conducted by Chinese research company iResearch. The same survey revealed the top three...
View ArticleWorld Cup 2014 on Weibo
World Cup discussion on Weibo Twenty two million China Internet users followed news on Weibo on the first day of FIFA World Cup 2014 ; total number of posts published reached 83 million in the first...
View ArticleCtrip Mobile Client Exceeded 160 Million Downloads
Ctrip Bikini Summer Campaign According to Ctrip official data, as of early June, Ctrip mobile application has been downloaded more than 160 million, with more than 80 million subscribers activated....
View Article10 Charts to Tell You Almost Everything About Alibaba Group: China’s...
Alibaba Group is the largest online and mobile commerce company in the world in terms of gross merchandise volume (GMV) in 2013, according to the IDC GMV Report. They operate their ecosystem as a...
View ArticleChina Mobile Search Performance in 2013
China mobile search advertising only represented 13.1% of total search advertising click share, according to Marin Software’s latest annual report. As the data only covers Google Mobile which has low...
View ArticleAlibaba Connecting Online and Offline with 2D Code Strategy
Alibaba announced a new 2D code strategy called ‘Ma Shang Tao’ last week. It will become a significant part of company’s “cloud+ terminal” strategy. Alibaba chief operating officer Zhang Yong said,...
View ArticleTop 10 Strategic Technology Trends in China
A new report from research and advisory firm Gartner identifies the top 10 strategic technology trends that CIOs in China should consider in order to pursue business growth and remain competitive...
View ArticleTmall Sold Over One Million Smartphones in One Day
According to Tmall’s official data released on Weibo, there are 1,039.9 thousand smartphones sold on 18 Jun online shopping promotion day, more than all offline smartphone retail channels’ combined...
View ArticleWhat Photos Are Most Appealing to Weibo Users?
Photos are important to make your message appealing, especially in social media. There’s no exception in Chinese social media. But what type of images and photos are most appealing on Weibo. Let’s...
View ArticleWechat Launching Advertising Platform for Public Accounts
Tencent’s Wechat team is internal testing Wechat Advertising Platform, connecting Wechat Public Accounts with advertisers. Both enterprise and personal public accounts can apply to be a publisher and...
View ArticleChinese University of Hong Kong DeepID Face Recognition Tech Beats Facebook...
A research team at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, led by Professor Xiaoou Tang, announced 99.15% face recognition accuracy achieved in Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) database (a database of...
View Article360 Partners with Weibo for We Media Platform
Last week, Weibo announced premium publisher program called WeMedia to encourage more unique and quality content creation on Weibo. We just found that Qihoo 360′s Wemedia platform is now fully...
View ArticleReasons Why China Internet Users Buy on Weibo
Some may think social media is not a big help to Ecommerce, but Weibo alone referred huge traffic to e-commerce platforms like Tmall and JD according to Weibo’s data. With the new Weibo Payment...
View ArticleChina Mobile Internet Users Reached 857 Million
Recently, MIIT released a report on the telecommunications industry in China from January to May 2014. It shows that the total number of mobile internet users have reached 857 million which accounts...
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