Archive for November, 2007

Baidu Invested A Video Ads Service Provider

AdsIt, an online video ads service provider, announced it received several million USD investment from Baidu, Intel Capital and Farallon Capital. A report of 21st Century Business Herald said the investment is about $4-6 million.
Actually, AdsIt has a strong partnership with Baidu, it is the exclusive operator of video ads of Baidu, or Baidu [...]

Follow Us On Twitter Or Jiwai.de

In our reader survey, many of our readers expect us to offer latest news updates on China’s Internet and mobile industry via microblogging tool. Now you can follow us on Twitter or Jiwai.de, a Chinese Twitter-like microblogging tool.
If you are Twitter user, we recommend you to follow us on Twitter, since we also incorporate [...]

Yiqilai.com: Yet Another Online Music Discovery Service

Yiqilai.com released its new version in late September 2007 and jumped into China’s online music discovery battle field where 8box.cn, Yobo.com and dola.com.cn already compete against each other. We compared these services earlier here and here.
Like its competitors, Yiqilai.com’s goal is to copy the success of Pandora and Last.fm to China. Yiqilai is more like [...]

Sina Clones Baidu Postbar

Baidu Postbar is one of the innovative services I used as examples in my presentation on web innovations in China. According to Alexa, the traffic of Baidu Postbar accounts for 11% of total traffic of Baidu, just follows Baidu web search and image search service.
What’s Baidu Postbar? It is a keyword-based online forum which [...]

Baidu Finance… Well, Officially Launched Again

Last week, we reported that Baidu rolled out a new service, Baidu Finance. Actually, it turned out to be just part of Baidu Finance, that is financial product sub-channel of Baidu Finance. Several days later, Baidu announced the launch of its finance channel in its official blog.
If you haven’t noticed Baidu’s logo in Baidu [...]

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