Archive for September, 2008

The Coming War Between Baidu and Taobao

It is inevitable that there will be a war between Baidu C2C service and Alibaba’s Taobao when Baidu announced its C2C plan in last year. Taobao is dominating the C2C market in China, even after Tencent’s Paipai entered this market. But this time, Taobao’s rival is Baidu, which is dominating search market in China, and [...]

56.com Launches SNS and Apps Platform

56.com, previously one of the leading video sharing site in China, is rumored to change its strategy to a social networking site, after it has been shut down by the regulators for over a month in June. In China, it is required to have a license from SARFT to operate online video service, most of [...]

ChinaQ: A Virtual World by China Telecom

If you know recently another virtual world product ChinaQ started its private beta in China, you will not be surprised. But I think you will not expect to see China Telecom Logo on its website. Yes, ChinaQ is a new virtual world service by China Telecom.
ChinaQ is still in private beta, you need to apply [...]

Brand Management in the Wired Era

In last two months, online brand and reputation management has been a hot topic on China’s Internet, esp. the stories of some online PR companies to manipulated BBS posts. How to management brands is a challenge to marketers in this Internet era. It is also one of the key topic covered by the Fifth [...]

Baidu To Launch Online Payment Service and C2C Platform Soon

When Baidu announced its C2C ecommerce platform in last year, many people were speculating whether Baidu will develop its own online payment service or use/acquire an existing one in the market. Now it turns out that Baidu will develop one. Its online payment service, Baifubao, will be launched soon. So does its C2C platform, which [...]

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