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Taobao Mall Revises New Fee Plan After Week of Online Protest from its Small...
Taobao Mall, China’s leading business-to-consumer (b2c) shopping platform, experienced an unsettling week of merchant protest after the company announced a revised merchant system and fee structures...
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Shopping Website 360buy.com Blocks Search Engine eTao from Indexing its Web...
According to iChinaStock.com, one of China’s top consumer shopping websites, 360buy (aka – Jingdong Mall), has blocked eTao, a leading e-commerce search engine, from crawling its pages. The decision...
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Baidu Now Accounts for Close to 80% of Search Engine Revenues; Google...
According to the latest statistics from market research company iResearch, the Chinese search engine market is estimated to be RMB5.51 billion (US$871 million) in Q3 2011 (link in Chinese), a quarter...
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Changyou to Acquire Leading Game News Portal from Sohu for $163 Million
Changyou.com Limited (NASDAQ: CYOU), a leading online game developer and operator in China, announced that it would be acquiring 17173.com, a leading game news portal, from Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ:...
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GREE, Japan’s Leading Social Network, Plans to Get 1 Billion Users on its New...
GREE Inc. (TYO: 3632), Japan’s leading social network service (SNS), released a press release yesterday with new details on its plan to offer a “borderless” social gaming platform that includes:...
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Sohu.com to Challenge Baidu in Search by Doubling Its Staff at Sogou
According to China Daily the online search industry in China will continue to be competitive as smaller players look to challenge the Baidu, Inc. ((ADR) NASDAQ: BIDU), the dominant leader. In...
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Government Orders that Chinese Microblog Users Must Now Register with their...
As microblogs (the generic name for Twitter services) have exploded in China there has been an ongoing debate whether users should have to supply their real names when registering their accounts. In...
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Baidu Removed from U.S. “Notorious Markets” List of Companies Engaged in...
This week the the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) issued its latest “Review of Notorious Markets” list of companies that are deemed serious sources of piracy and counterfeiting...
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Alibaba Group Continues Signaling its Plan to Bid on Takeover of Yahoo! ($YHOO)
According to a Reuters report this morning, Alibaba Group has signaled to market observers that it is progressing towards an acquisition bid for all of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), by hiring lobbying...
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Netease.com Shutters its Short-Lived Luxury Goods Shopping Platform ($NTES)
As reported by China Tech News, Chinese Internet portal and online game services provider NetEase.com, Inc. ((ADR) NASDAQ: NTES) announced the closing of L.163.com, its luxury goods Internet shopping...
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