Sogou, Sohu’s search arm, made progress in both search and input method in the third quarter of 2014. In search, aggressive marketing initiatives helped enhance the brand recognition of Sogou. Sogou mobile search traffic grew by nearly 20% quarter-over-quarter.
Archives for November 2014
China Smartphones Market Share Surpassed Samsung, Apple Combined
From the beginning of 2014, China smartphone manufacturers’ shipment volume are dramatically increasing, including Xiaomi, Lenovo and Huawei. Strategy Analytics’ latest data shows the total shipment of China’s smartphone manufacturers account for 38% of global total, surpassing combined total of Samsung and Apple.
Chinese Employees Tend to Change Jobs More Often than Americans
Chinese employees’ frequency of changing jobs is higher than American employees in 2014 according to a report from LinkedIn. The report covers Chinese employees from China’s major economic circles, i.e. Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei economic circle, Yangtze river delta economic circle, the pearl river delta economic circle and middle-China economic circle.
Stats of Top Selling Brands on Taobao/Tmall in 18 Categories
As top the brand in men’s clothes category on Taobao/ Tmall, afs Jeep had an increased revenue of RMB23 million ($3.7 million) followed by Markfairwhale who had increased by over RMB10 million ($1.62 million) in sales value compared with August according to data of Taobao Mofang.
Sohu Revenue Up 17% to $430M in Q3 2014
Sohu’s total revenues for the third quarter of 2014 were US$430 million, up 17% YoY and 8% QoQ.
Wechat Aiming Int’l E-commerce Market with Payment Solutions
Recently, Wechat payment is discussing cooperation with some e-commerce websites on importing business and overseas e-commerce including eBay.
Chinese Female Internet Users Insight
75% of Chinese families’ consumption is decided by women and their influence is extended to internet and mobile internet. In 2012, purchase by female Internet users accounted for 50% of total online shopping transaction value ($1,324.28 billion). They accounted for over 60% of total users on comprehensive goods e-commerce platform, and 80%-90% on cosmetics e-commerce platform, […]
China’s PMI in Oct 2014 Hits Five-month Low
In October 2014, China’s manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) was 50.8%, 0.3 percentage points lower over last month according to National Bureau of Statistics China.