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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) [...]

Demographic Profiles of China’s Top Social Networking Sites

Users China’s top social networking sites are quite young, about 80% of which are between 20-34 years old according to Enfordesk’s data in September this year.

Hurun Most Valuable Chinese Home-grown Brands List 2011

The Hurun Research Institute this June released the Hurun Most Valuable Home-grown Brands List 2011, a comprehensive ranking of the 100 most valuable home grown brands from mainland China. Unique in China, the Hurun Most Valuable Home-grown Brands List 2011 draws upon both relevant economic data and consumer survey results to come to a comprehensive [...]

Tencent Reports 530M Qzone Users and 233M Weibo Users

Tencent’s social media assets achieved a solid growth in the second quarter of 2011 according to its Q2 finance report. At the end of the second quarter of 2011, active user accounts of Tencent IM platform amounted to 701.9 million, representing a quarter-on-quarter increase of 4.1%. For Qzone, active user accounts increased by 5.1% on [...]

Tencent Challenges Apple’s Facetime with Weishi, a cross-platform video calling app

Tencent launched a cross-platform video calling software Weishi in beta last week, which enables iOS and Android device users to video chat with each other. Weishi is integrated with mobile device address book, providing not only video calling functions but also SMS and email features. Users who want to try out this application need to [...]

Tencent Testing An Online Chat Site for Strangers

Tencent is testing an online chat website called “Renhai” which any QQ user to talk to another randomly selected user anonymously. Renhai currently only supports IE browsers. I tried it on Chrome and it didn’t work; but it works on Safari. It’s under testing and the maximum total number of simultaneous online users is less than [...]

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 [...]

Baidu Launched Bookmarking Tool Baidu Share

Baidu has launched a bookmarking tool in beta called “Baidu Share”. Users can choose three styles; button style, text/icon style and flowing window style as shown below: Users can share content with Baidu Share at sixteen popular social networking sites including:

QZone Active Users Over 500 Million

Last week at the sixth China Webmasters Conference, Tencent’s product director claimed that, QZone has over 500 million active users with 32.2% market share in China’s social networking market. And, Tencent’s recently launched social networking site Pengyou has over 100 million active users.

Baidu is now the No.1 Internet Company in China

Baidu stock surged 4% in big volume and finished at $132.58 per share, which gives Baidu a market cap of $46.2 billion. Considering Tencent’s latest market cap of about $45.5 billion, Baidu is now the biggest Internet company in China.

Groupon’s Top Competitors in China

Groupon has finally launched their deal in China on Gaopeng.com, in collaboration with Tencent. One powerful feature of the website is that users can login with their qq account and accumulate rebate points (what Tencent call “Caibei” points). Considering there are over 600 million active users on QQ platform, this is no doubt a powerful integration. [...]

Sina Weibo Valued at $2 Billion by Mirae Assets

Sina has 87% of the Chinese micro-blogging market by the time spent browsing and Tencent less than 8%, according to Eric Wen, an analyst at Mirae Asset Securities Co in Hong Kong. Mirae Asset valued Sina Weibo at $2 billion; half from advertising revenue and the other half from revenues brought by active users. Sina [...]

Groupon China Website “Gaopeng.com” Officially Launched

Groupon China’s website “GaoPeng.com”, a joint venture with Tencent, has officially launched today. Group buying deal is not available yet until March 2011. Users can sign up in one of eleven cities in China: Beijing Shanghai Guangzhou Shenzhen Chengdu Hangzhou Wuhan Chongqing Tianjin Nanjing Suzhou According to Sohu IT News, deals will be available in [...]

GROUPON China “Gaopeng” to Launch Next Week with A Unique Feature

Groupon China’s joint venture with Tencent will launch their website “Gaopeng.com” next week. A reporter at Jinghua newspaper managed to open gaopeng.com though there is no products available yet. After he registered his email, he received a note saying that “This website will be officially launched next week” signed by “Team Gaopeng”.

Mobile IM Q2 2010 Market Share by Active Users

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According to data released by Enfodesk, Q2 mobile IM market went up by 40 million more active users.

Tencent Q2 Advertising Revenue Exceeded Sohu

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Tencent’s Q2 online advertising market share increased a lot after a fall in Q1 exceeding Sohu for the first time.

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