QQ To Compete With Xiaonei.com

Today, QQ soft launches a new service called QQ Xiaoyou, which is a social networking service targeted at students in universities and high schools. Actually, Xiaoyou is the Chinese Pinyin for alumni. Currently, only invited QQ users are allowed to test the service.
Obviously QQ want to make Xiaoyou another China’s Facebook, it also has the [...]

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 [...]

Voice Matters: Baidu Launches Voice Search, QQ Voice Mail Follows

Today Baidu’s voice search formally launched, not available for registration though. This is not news if you are an old reader. We first reported it in last August. Now it seems Baidu finally made the decision on how to operate the service.
You will use the service in this way: Call 400-666-8585 with any phone, tell [...]

Plus8Star Looks Inside QQ

QQ, the most largest IM service in China and in the world, is one of the most successful and profitable Internet companies in China. It generates over $700 million in 2007, but do you know what is QQ’s business model, how it get users to pay for the service? Maybe most of us can not [...]

Coral QQ vs. QQ: What’s Your Opinion?

In recent days, the hottest news in China’s Internet industry should be Chen Shoufu, developer of Coral QQ, a popular QQ add-on, was arrested for infringement of QQ’s unintellectual property.
What is Coral QQ? It is a popular QQ add-on, the most attractive features of Coral QQ are blocking Tencent’s ads in QQ IM client [...]

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