Archive for April, 2008

Baidu To Operate Online Game Service

It is reported today that Baidu will partner with online game operators to operate online game service soon, the official news will be announced early next week. Acutally, you can access the Baidu online game channel already.
Baidu now partners with Shanda, Joycub.cn and 51wan.com to operate six browser games. Among all six games, four [...]

Product Pulse: Baidu Startpages, Sina Space And Community Search

Baidu has launched personal startpages. Unlike iGoogle, Baidu doesn’t let you add your own news feeds, not to say programmable gadgets.
Currently all you can customize are a couple of handy assistants, news aggregation and search keyword trends. Since Baidu’s news aggregation is the best out there, the product still makes perfect sense even with [...]

CityIn Adds Content Aggregation As Hainei

CityIn.com, a new SNS with some innovative features, continues adding new features since it launched about one month ago, such as face-detecting tech for photo tag. It now rolled out a new content aggregation feature, similar to what Hainei.com did.
Unlike Hainei’s partnership with Xianguo.com, CityIn offers this feature by itself. CityIn aggregates the latest [...]

Taobao Sales Recorded High and Launches Taobao Mall

Taobao, the dominating C2C platform in China owned by Alibaba Group, released its sales stats for Q1 of 2008, and launched an important new service, Taobao Mall.
According to Taobao, it recorded RMB 18.8 billion Yuan sales volume in 2008 Q1, an increase of 170% over RMB 7.0 billion Yuan for the same period of [...]

Some Stats On China’s IM Services

Just two weeks after Baidu Hi launched its public beta test, Baidu announced on yesterday that over 1 million users has tried Baidu Hi. An IM service from Baidu will definitely attracts users’ attention, similar to Google’s GTalk. The real challenge is how many percentage of registered users will remain active six month later.
How [...]

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