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China Tourism Market Report

October 24, 2011 · 3 Comments

1. Current Status of Tourism Market Maintaining an annual growth rate of 7%, the tourism in China has already become a new sector of economic growth. It has promoted the development of related industries, society and economy and has already become one of China’s pillar industries. Tourism industry in China consist mainly of hotel industry, catering, transportation, travel agencies and tourist attractions management industries, among which hotel industry, travel agencies and transportation are the three pillars of the tourism industry. Tourism promotes the economic growth, helps to develop relevant... [Read the full story]

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Kingsoft, Baidu, Keniu and Maxthon appeal to boycott 360

November 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment

On November 5th, 2010, 4 renowned internet companies Kingsoft, Baidu, Keniu and Maxthon held a joint media conference, appealed to their users to boycott 360 safeguard software. Softwares developed by the 4 companies will become incompatible with Qihoo anti-virus software, internet users have to choose sides. The battle between Tencent and Qihoo 360, China’s biggest Internet service providers, is intensifying. According to the report, Sogou was supposed to attend the joint media conference, however, due to some reason, Sogou didn’t attend the conference. These 4 companies announced that... [Read the full story]

Advertising

Top 10 online advertisers in China

September 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment

According to the latest report by CR Nielson, Chengdu Dream Factory internet technology Co.,Ltd, Nike China, and Beijing Kunlun Wanwei Technology Co.,Ltd are the top 3 internet advertisers in China. Respectively, their monthly estimated spending on online advertising are 39 million RMB, 36 million RMB and 33 million RMB. The top 10 advertisers account for 19.6% market share of China online advertising expenditure. China top 10 internet advertisers chart Ranking Company Expenditure Industry 1 Chendu Dream Factory 39370000 internet 2 Nike China 36350000 sportswear 3 Beijing... [Read the full story]

Statistics

Sohu.com Inc 2008 financial report

November 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Total revenues for fiscal year 2008 were US$429.1 million, 2.3 times that of fiscal year 2007 revenues of US$188.9 million. Gross margin was 75% in fiscal year 2008, compared with 66% in fiscal year 2007. Non-GAAP gross margin was 75% in fiscal year 2008, an increase from 67% in fiscal year 2007. Advertising revenues for fiscal year 2008 totaled US$175.9 million, up 48% from US$119.2 million in fiscal year 2007. Advertising revenues consisted of US$169.3 million in brand advertising and US$6.6 million in sponsored search. Brand advertising revenues increased 51% year-on-year, primarily as a result... [Read the full story]

Anti Virus

CSDN, Tianya, Renren, Kaixin Hacked, 6 Million Users’ Privacy Leaked

January 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment

It is reported that the personal information of over 6 million users on CSDN was leaked almost in one night. Many famous national Internet companies such as Renren.com, Duowan.com and Jiayuan.com were involved in the hacking case. The stolen information might be sold or used to seek profit by cheating and advertising. 6 million user’s information being stolen The leaking was first appeared in China’s largest programmer’s website, CSDN or China Software Developer Network. On 21st, hackers exposed users’ database from CSDN including more than 6 million registered email address and corresponding... [Read the full story]

Social Media

SNS Site Kaixin001.com Lose 65% Users

August 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment

News from Hexun Technology on August 3, as data from Alexa showed, the number of users of Kaixin001.com has fallen by 65%, and the trend of Renren.com also showed a waving declining. Regarding such trend, Dong Xu from Eguan.com expressed that currently, SNS websites are troubled by both internal problems and external impacts, thus facing difficulties in development. SNS facing development difficulty inside the industry “Depending on some entertaining applications and socializing games such as Selling Friends, Scrambling Parking Place and Happy Farm, SNS websites have won their users initially.... [Read the full story]

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Practical guide on how to verify chinese company

Thanks to ecommerce, companies in US are able to sell products/service to China, a country you have not yet visited, you don’t speak the language, you are not aware if the legal systems are similar, you don’t know and don’t have the resource to know if the counterpart Chinese companies are real. So we face a...

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Global buyers reluctant to use yuan but may do so in the future

More than 80 percent of those who participated in a recent Global Sources buyer survey said they are not using the yuan to settle purchases with China makers. Nearly half of them indicated that this is the case because the yuan is not circulated in their home nations. In countries where the yuan is readily available,...

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Alibaba ranking algorithm: How to rank better on alibaba English website

We have written an article on how to achieve better ranking result on alibaba China(now called 1688.com) for trustpass members, and how to manage your alibaba PPC account( or Wangxiaobao 网销宝account). Readers are very interested in those topics, oftentimes, we received email from readers of china-online-marketing.com,...

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The verbal war between Chinese anti virus software company on Sina microblog

A greater verbal war was brewing between Kingsoft and 360 Security Guard. The cause of this verbal exchange was as follows: on May 21, as alleged by Kingsoft Inc., many Kingsoft WebShield users filed complaints to the Kingsoft Software Customer Service Center that 360 Security Guard (http://t.sina.com.cn/qihoo) viciously...

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Taobao ranking algorithm changes

Taobao.com, the leading C2C ecommerce site in China, announced today that taobao will factor in after-sale service record of sellers in their internal search algorithm since July 8th. Point deduction for improper operation, refunds record, complaint record will affect the organic ranking. As Taobao.com accounts for...

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