News Roundup: Douban, Qzone, iNeZha and Tianji

The change of China’s foreign investment rules to influence China’s Internet industry: Last week, China’s National Development and Reform Commission announced the issuance of a revised Catalog for the Guidance of Foreign Invested Enterprises (Revised 2007). According to the new catalog, the news website, online video and audio service, the operation of Internet cafe and [...]

QQGames Entered US Market

Tencent, who operates the most popular IM client QQ in China, has partnered with AOL, to provide a casual game plugin for AIM (tip by TagEdge). The QQGames plugin enables AIM users to play online casual games with their buddies, similar to MSN Live Messenger’s games.
According to a post in QQGames’ bbs, the plugin, which [...]

QQ Campus: Not Yet a Challenger to Xiaonei

In last week, Tencent finally launched QQ Campus, after more than half a year limited beta test. QQ Campus is obviously the direct competitor of Xiaonei.com, Zhanzuo and other campus social network websites in China.
In order to only allow students to register, many campus social network sites use email address to verify users’ identity. [...]

Taotao Now Helps You to Record Your Expenditures

Taotao, the Twitter-like service from Tencent, keeps improving its features after launched about one month ago. Today, the blog of Tencent Labs announced an new interesting update of Taotao.com, now you can use Taotao to record your expenditures conveniently.
If you want to make a record of your expenditure or incomes in Taotao.com, you can [...]

QQ Launches Resource Sharing Platform

QQ has its own download client, Cyclone. It’s not as popular as Xunlei, but they provide similar features. When you use it to download with http or ftp, it will find and download the resource from other users at the same time with its own peer-to-peer protocol. That’s why they are faster than direct downloading [...]

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