Archive for February, 2007

Match.com Acquires Chinese Dating Site Edodo

According to this AP report, Match.com has acquired Beijing based dating site Edodo. Financial details is not disclosed. Match.com is owned by IAC, which is also the parent company of Ask.com.
Edodo launched in around 2005. The AP report shows it has 180,000 paid users. Before this deal, it’s almost never reported by Chinese media. Take [...]

Exclusive Interview with Keso on His New Startup

On the last day of Jan. 2007, Keso announced on his blog that he had left Donews. Today China Web2.0 Review interviewed Keso to find out why he left his old company and what kind of service his new startup will bring to customers.
His new startup is an Internet business consulting company called Five Seasons. [...]

Weazone to launch Tumblelog

Tumblelog is a new word I just learned from Andy’s blog. He is founder of Weazone, a music community we have introduced along with a couple of other music services in last December.
What is Tumblelog? The Wikipedia entry says:
A tumblelog is a variation of a blog, that favors short-form, mixed-media posts over the longer editorial [...]

Baidu is cloned in Europe?

When I read Fons’ post named Baidu Europe launches, I was a bit confused. I was going to search the news to see if I have missed any important things in the last several days. After reading carefully I realize that this is a Dutch company which is going to build a search engine to [...]

Xunlei Found: User Generated Resource Center

Shenzhen based Xunlei, one of the largest download resource directories in China, has launched Xunlei Found, a Yahoo Answers like community last month, where Xunlei users can help each other to find free download resources.
Users are driven by a virtual score system. Users can post resource requesting post in the system with a score. Then [...]

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