Alibaba v.s. Amazon: Who’s Making More Money?
Morningstar puts Alibaba’s equity value at $220 billion and expects the Chinese e-commerce giant’s IPO to raise $26 billion. Alibaba is China’s e-commerce giant, in many sectors including B2B, B2C and...
View ArticleBaidu Launched Website Monitoring Service
Baidu recently launched a cloud technology based service monitoring website security and loading speed. Whether or not you can read Chinese, simply visit this service, enter your website URL and get a...
View ArticleWeibo Launched Photo Tagging Feature
Sina Weibo just launched a new feature, allowing users to tag photos with clickable links to another page on Weibo, which could be user profile or #topic page#. Each photo can include up to five tags....
View ArticleINFOGRAPHIC: Brief History of Alipay Yu’E Bao’s Rapid Development in China
Alipay’s Yu’E Bao, linked with monetary fund, is a value added service of Alipay serving as an alternative investment way for China internet users. It’s been launched for a little over one year; let’s...
View ArticleTencent Opening Up API for Wechat Login
Last Friday Wechat opened up internal testing of Wechat Login API for apps and websites to those who have already activated mobile app Wechat Payment account. With permissions from users, app and...
View ArticleJD Launched Crowdfunding Platform
JD launched a crowdfunding platform today with 12 smart hardware and fashion culture products. JD is currently promoting the crowdfunding service with giveaways including JD vouchers and Google Glass...
View ArticleTencent Aiming Smart Hardware Market with Wechat Integration Strategy
Recently, one of China’s famous Wemedia Newhard learned from various channels that Wechat has been officially involved in the smart hardware market. The way it adopts is not launching smart hardware...
View ArticleChina Mobile App Distribution Channels Market Share
How are mobile apps distributions in China? China smartphone users go to Apple’s Appstore is for iOS device apps download; but, for Android phone users, Google Play is not in play. Instead, there are...
View ArticleINFOGRAPHIC: China’s Top 30 B2C Websites
Tmall, JD, Amazon are well known online retailers in Chinese market, but who else? Here is the inforgraphic of the top 30:
View ArticleWeibo Announced New Mobile Ad Format for Advertisers
Weibo.com (or Sina Weibo) announced a new mobile ad format for advertisers. This new type of ad is displayed in full screen format when users launch the apps, lasting for three seconds and displaying...
View Article360 Search Gaining Over 28% Market Share
CNZZ, a well known internet data service provider in China and part of Alimama (which is under Alibaba Group), released its finding on China search engine usage. It shows that Qihoo 360 search now has...
View ArticleAlipay to Provide Chinese Tourists Tax Refund Service in Europe
Alipay has recently reached a cooperation agreement with Global Blue in which Chinese tourists can use Alipay for tax refund while shopping in Europe according to Sina Tech News. The details of the...
View ArticleForbes: Best CEO of China’s Public Companies in 2014
Forbes China studies the revenues of China’s public listed companies for three consecutive years and came up with a “China’s Best CEO” list today. The average salary of Forbes’ this year’s best ceo is...
View ArticleBaidu Launched Image Plus for Publishers to Monetize Images
Baidu Image Plus Baidu Union, Baidu version of AdSense, launched a new tool for publishers to monetize images on their websites. Image Plus matches the images with relevant content network ads in one...
View ArticleEstee Lauder Tmall Sales in June Exceeded 10 Million
The turnover of Estee Lauder’s Tmall flagship store in June was nearly 10 million yuan, stimulating the off-line store sales at the same time. According to CCW.com.cn, there were a total number of...
View ArticleQunar App: Top Travel Booking App with Over 100M Downloads
On Android platforms alone, Qunar Travel apps had reached 105.716 million times by this May being the first travel app exceeding 100 million downloads according to Jinlv Consulting, a research and...
View ArticlePHOTOS: How China Internet Companies Advertise in Rural Areas
“Visit Taobao if you want to live a better life” Wall ads in rural areas prove to be a good way of penetrating into lower tier cities; let’s take a look at some of the wall ads of China internet...
View ArticleKantar: Chinese Consumer Goods Companies Take Share from Foreign Companies
A latest report launched by Kantar Worldpanel shows that China’s market for soft drinks, packaged foods, personal care and other consumer staples has slowed dramatically, by two-thirds since 2011....
View ArticleChina Online Shopping in Rural Areas Outpaced Those in Cities
Dangdang’s Wall Ad in Rural Area Growth in online shopping in counties and villages in China has outpaced those in cities, becoming a new engine that is further driving China’s domestic consumption,...
View ArticleAlipay Offering $3+ Insurance for Mobile Phone Screens
Alipay is actively expanding its business into insurance businesses with new version 8.2 offering four types of insurance packages. Right now, Alipay mobile users upgraded to version 8.2 can see four...
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