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Baidu Launched Encyclopedia Digital Museum

Baidu has launched the Baidu Encyclopedia Digital Museum to digitally display the collections of museums across the country. You can click the map tab, select the region and view a list of museums. You can then click on the museum’s name to view its collection, or visit its Baidu Encyclopedia entry. So far, only collections [...]

Top 50 Most Valuable Chinese Brands

Millward Brown released their second annual BrandZ Top 50 Most Valuable Brands. You can get the PDF here or view a summary below (Internet companies are bolded). Baidu, Tencent, Sina, Renren, Ctrip and Sohu are the six Internet companies that made it to the Top 50 most valuable Chinese brands; Baidu (6) and Tencent (10) [...]

China Public Holidays in 2012

Chinese government agency has announced the public holidays in 2012 last week, which marketers should know for planning: New Year’s Day: 1-3 January (3 days), 31 Dec 2011 (Saturday) is a working day Chinese New Year: 22-28 January (7 days), Jan 21 (Sat) and Jan 29 (Sun) are working days Ching Ming Festival: 2-4 April [...]

Baidu CEO Robin Li on This Year’s New Establishment List

This year’s New Establishment list from Vanity Fair identifies the top 50 of an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigies, and entrepreneurs. Baidu CEO Robin Li is in the top 25 and the only Chinese who made it to this year’s New Establishment list.

Baidu Released UEditor: Online HTML Editor

Baidu just released an open source online editor called “UEditor“; you can try out the demo here. UEditor is compatible with Mozilla, MSIE, FireFox, Maxthon,Safari and Chrome browsers. If you develop online applications for Chinese market, you should probably check this out as it provides several features

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Google.cn stopping to redirect to HK with a deceptive landing page

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As Google’s Internet Content Provider (ICP) license is up for renewal on June 30 in China, Google now has a new approach to handle Google.cn visitors.

Vuvuzela voted the top World Cup hit by Youku users

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In a Youku poll to see what made the biggest impression on viewers of World Cup 2010, the vuvuzela takes the first place, with 22.5% of respondents (2,355 votes) voting for “The ear-splitting vuvuzelas” as the most striking feature of the matches so far.

China to Allow Non-financial Companies to Offer online payment services

China’s central bank on Monday said it would allow non-financial companies such as Alibaba, the country’s leading e-commerce company, to offer online payment services. The move comes after months of uncertainty over whether the People’s Bank of China might severely curtail the business of AliPay, an affiliate of Alibaba. The central bank has been pushing [...]

Explore Shanghai World Expo on Google

Google Maps aggregated Shanghai Expo data and you can explore different pavilions, activities (not available in English version), and World Expo history. Check out Expo on Google in Chinese or English.

China Internet Mourns Earthquake Victims

Today, April 21, the whole country mourns its earthquake victims and the nation’s flag lowered to half-mast around the countr. Not only the front pages of Chinese newspapers were bathed in black but also the online properties.

Google Dropped its Chinese Name GuGe

Google China’s homepage changed its name to “Google China” on April 3, 2010. Previously, Google had a Chinese name “Gu Ge” (as shown in the image above), announced in April 2006.

More Targeted Attacks Originated in China

I think this is no more surprising to you: Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced the publication of its March 2010 MessageLabs Intelligence Report. Analysis of the origins of targeted attacks, malicious emails sent in small volumes aimed at gaining access to sensitive corporate data, reveals that the majority of targeted malware sent this month, [...]

Baidu Employee Cheers as Baidu Shares Rise on Google’s Likely Withrawal

Baidu shares jumped on Monday as it appeared increasingly likely that Google  will shutter its Chinese-language search engine. Financial Times seems pretty sure about it, Google  has drawn up detailed plans for the closure of its Chinese search engine and is now “99.9 per cent” certain to go ahead as talks over censorship with the [...]

Tencent Launched English Portal imqq.com for Expats

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, [...]

Chinese Hackers Retaliate and Hacked Iran Website

Baidu.com was not accessible this morning and possibly hacked by Iranian Cyber Army, and Chinese hackers retaliate back! A friend from China pinged me of this site iribu.ir (seems like an education institution page), whose page is currently replaced by Chinese hackers’ page. This is a cached page from Bing on Jan 10 showing what [...]

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