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CTrip Guarantees The Lowest Hotel Online Booking Rate

by Rocky Fu on March 11, 2010

in Travel

Ctrip yesterday announced the launch of the lowest hotel online booking rates commitment.

From March 10 onwards, Ctrip guarantees the lowest online domestic hotel booking rate. If consumers find any other cheaper offer, Ctrip will pay three times the difference in cash.

Online travel booking in 2009 has reached 30.24 million users, an increase of 77.9%.

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100 Million Simultaneous Users on QQ

by Rocky Fu on March 8, 2010

in Research & Statistics

At 19:52:05 on March 5, the number of simultaneous online QQ users for the first time exceeded 100 million, which is also the world’s first online application having exceeded simultaneous 100 million users.

Tencent’s market capital is over USD 37 billion.

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Baidu to Launch Video Portal QiYi.com in March

by Rocky Fu on February 24, 2010

in Social Media

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Baidu is to launch its HD video portal site QiYi.com in March. It announced its ambition in HD video in early January this year and hired former 12580 COO Gong Yu to be its CEO.

QiYi.com aims to provide FREE and legal high definition video to Internet netizens and try to duplicate Hulu’s business model in China.

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China’s President Hu on People’s Daily Twitter Clone

February 22, 2010

The People’s Daily, the organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCP), recently launched its own Twitter clone to compete in Chinese microblogging.
It’s clearly a different microblogging provider to me (probably because of its link with the government) as most “Tweets” are about matters vital to national well-being and the people’s [...]

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Tencent Launched English Portal imqq.com for Expats

February 6, 2010

Tencent launched English version instant messenger some time ago and it has recently launched an English portal for expat netizens – imqq.com.
Unlike its Chinese portal qq.com, imqq.com currently seems to focus on local content. Right now, it has included Shanghai and Beijing.It also promotes its English version instant messenger – QQ International (in English, French, [...]

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Baidu Map Integrates Real Time Search

January 28, 2010

Baidu Map has launched a very interesting section to show real time search results on the map.
Called “Post Bar Map”, it’s hosted on say.map.baidu.com, latest posts from i Post Bar (Baidu’s twitter like product) related to the search keyword will keep popping up on different locations of the map (user locations).

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5 Tips on Sourcing Chinese Social Media Monitoring Tools

January 26, 2010

I’ve been testing a few social media monitoring software for Chinese market (mainland China) lately and found very few good ones. Let me share some tips on sourcing social media monitoring software or online applications for mainland Chinese market.
Language capabilities. If an application does a good job of monitoring online conversations on English keywords, it’s [...]

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China Internet Statistics 2009 Summary

January 20, 2010

The following statistics are based on data released by CNNIC for 2009.

China Internet users: 384 million, with a penetration rate of 28.9%
Broadband Internet users: 346 million
China mobile internet users: 233 million (60.8% of total internet users)
Internet users in rural areas: 106.81 million
Registered domain names: 16.82 million (80% are .cn domains)
Top 3 Internet applications

online music
online [...]

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Baidu to Launch AdWords Editor like PPC Editor Next Tuesday

January 19, 2010

Baidu is going to launch its paid search desktop editor on Jan 26, 2010. Its official name for the editor is “Baidu Promote Assistant“.
The Baidu PPC Editor looks a lot like the Google AdWords Editor including the following features:

Multiple accounts management
Quick navigations with filter and advanced search abilities
Mass create, edit, and copy keywords and ad [...]

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Baidu Added Two More Links on Homepage

January 19, 2010

Yesterday evening, Baidu homepage was found updated with two more links.
The new homepage has two links added, one link to “baidu map” above the search box and one link to “baidu baike (wikipedia)” below the search box:
Are more links coming to the homepage? What if Google does pull out of China?

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