According to Nielsen’s report on Hong Kong digital behavior, 87% of Hong Kong consumers have used the Internet in the past 12 months, compared to neighboring markets such as Singapore (67%), Malaysia (38%), Thailand (31%), Philippines (30%) and Indonesia (19%).
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Chinese Banks To Benefit from Internet User Data Leak
The user IDs, passwords and email addresses of more than 6 million accounts registered on CSDN were leaked two weeks ago. You may want to check whether your account is already a public secret using Am I Hacked. However, Chinese banks will benefit from this attack as China Ministry of Public Security now requires that leading search […]
Top 10 Fast Growing Chinese B2C Websites in 2011
According to iResearch, the fastest growing B2C website in 2011 by total number of orders is womai.com (owned by China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation; or, COFCO), followed by vjia.com (owned by VANCL) and yaodian100.com.
Baidu Launched Open Beta Test Platform
Baidu officially released its Open Beta Test Platform last Tuesday, a convenient “one-stop shop” for users interested in participating the latest Baidu products testing. Upon signing in, users will discover a personal center, a mission assignment square, an on-the-spot survey column, a gifts center, and an accomplishment column. Users can click on the button “receive […]
Beijing Administration Released Regulations on Microblogs
Beijing Municipal government announced Regulations of Microblog Development today. Micrblogging websites in Beijing city administrative area and their users should comply with the regulations. The regulation requires microblog users to register their identities with authorities and forbids creating fake Weibo accounts.
Chart: Top 10 OTA by Share of Visits in November
Experian released November data for China’s most visited online travel agencies. Does it surprise you that Qunar is the most visited OTA in China?
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 […]
Chinese Spent More Time Watching Video on Computers & Mobile Than TV
Starcom MediaVest Group’s recently conducted a study of users ages 13 to 45 in China and found that internet users aged 19 to 30 spent almost twice as much time online as watching TV.
Alibaba Launching A Google+ Like Social Network
A screenshot was leaked yesterday about a new social network, Laiwang.com that Alibaba is building and testing internally:
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.
Understanding China’s E-commerce Market
Boston Consulting Group shared research findings this week predicting that China online shopping, will see exponential growth through 2015, with spending that could make China’s e-commerce market worth more than RMB 2 trillion and possibly surpass the size of the U.S. market. Here is a summary of some findings of BCG survey: Less than 10 […]
China OTA Market Update for Q3 2011 [CHART]
ctrip.com maintains its dominant position in China’s Online Travel Agency (OTA) market with 41% share of total 2.41 billion yuan revenue (USD 379 million).
China’s Search Engine Market Update for Q3 2011
China web search requests amounted to 77.51 billion times in Q3 2011, up 6.1% from Q2 and 16.3% from Q3 2010 according to research company iResearch.
Top 10 Searched Auto Brands in Oct 2011 [CHART]
According to Hitwise data, the most searched for auto brand is Volkswagen in both September and October.
Renren Reached 137 Million Users in Q3 2011
Renren last week announced its unaudited Q3 financial results, who also made their first post-IPO strategic acquisition, 56.com in Q3, a leading Chinese user-generated-content focused video sharing site Renren’s mobile penetration has reached over 35% of unique monthly log-in users with over half of their mobile users accessing their Renren accounts through smartphones. In addition, […]