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Tencent to Acquire Comsenz?

There has been rumor on the market that Tencent will invest $10 million into Comsenz, the leading social softwares developer in China since May. It is said the new investment will take over the stakes held by Google China. Today, a report on Sina said Tencent will acquire Comsenz instead of just investment.
Comsenz, well [...]

3 Reasons Why Tencent’s Qzone, the Largest Social Network in China, is a Failure

（This is a guest post by Kai Lukoff. Kai Lukoff is an analyst at BloggerInsight and an editor on China Social Games. Follow Kai on Twitter @klukoff. You can find more information on China Social Game at the end of this post. )

Qzone, “the largest social network in China,” and Tencent’s other SNS (QQ Campus [...]

Announcing ChinaMode Winners

After two weeks of public vote, ChinaMode Awards 2009 have received 121446 votes. We are now happy to announce the winners of the first ChinaMode Awards in each 7 categories.

Best Internet Applications: Taobao, Google, Baidu;
Best User-Experience Applications: Google Chinese search service, Sogou Pinyin Chinese Input Method, Alipay;
Most Promising Applications: Google Music, Sina [...]

Douban Raised $10M in Series B

Douban, a symbol of web 2.0 services in China, announced its $10 million series B financing today. The new round is led by Trustbridge Partners, and co-invested by its existing investor Ceyuan Ventures, who invested in $2 million in 2006.
Douban started from a social networking sites for book lovers, movie lovers and music lovers [...]

[Event] Third Digital Future Symposium Beijing

The post is to introduce an event which our readers might be interested in. The post is drafted by the event organizer.
The Digital Future Symposium (DFS) is a highly successful event first launched in 2007 by the CENTRE FOR CONTENT PROTECTION (CCP). It has conducted successful events in Japan, Singapore, India and Malaysia. [...]

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