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China Internet Usage Led by Web Portals as Social Networking Remains Smaller Segment of the Market

A recent comScore study reveals that portals commanded the largest share of online minutes, accounting for 24.4% of total time in Greater China (including Taiwan and Hong Kong), followed by the Entertainment (9%), Search/Navigation (6.2%), Social Networking (5.5%) and Retail (5%)site categories. These five categories combined accounted for half of all time spent online in [...]

Yahoo Enhanced Search Suggestion for Taiwan and Hong Kong Market

Yahoo has enhanced search suggestion in Web search for Yahoo! Taiwan (Yahoo! Kimo) and Yahoo! Hong Kong. This feature helps users easily enter queries in traditional Chinese in the search box using Changjie and Cantonese Pinyin, which are language input systems used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, respectively. For example, to search for “Shanghai World’s [...]

Active Facebook Users in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong

Hong Kong people are the most passionate about Facebook among the Greater China region (mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau), shown in a recent research conducted by O’Reilly, “Facebook Demographic Trends”. It seems Facebook has a very hard time in mainland China.