Bart Simpson’s Angry Dad Website in Chinese
The Washington Post has an interesting article on the internet industry in China. Lots of outrageous price-to-earnings numbers, incredibly optimistic internet entrepreneurs, and venture capital firms that believe that China is different.
I don’t really follow the internet space. I never understood how companies made money during the US dot com boom and have [...]
Google Looks to a Cafe Society
Pacific Epoch reports:
Google China plans to cooperate with Internet cafes in Chengdu to promote Google services, reports West China City Daily quoting Google China president special assistant and strategy officer Guo Quji. The cooperating Internet cafes will set google.com as the homepage on their PCs as well as install the Google toolbar on their cafes’ [...]
All Hail the King: Kaspersky Succeeds in Rising Suit
Pacific Epoch reports:
Chinese anti-virus software company Rising was found on December 19 to have engaged in unfair competition with its Russian competitor Kaspersky, reports Sohu. Tianjin No.1 Intermediate People’s Court ordered Rising to pay RMB451,000 in compensation to Kaspersky, post a public apology for a week, as well as delete all slanderous posts about Kaspersky, [...]
Update: Huawei and Symantec Deal Gets EU Approval
I wasn’t aware that a deal between a hardware firm and a software firm had to be reviewed, but People’s Daily reports that the EU has approved the joint venture.
The article sums it all up:
Earlier this year, Huawei and Symantec agreed to form a joint venture which will develop security and storage appliances for [...]
Shanghai Gets it On… Line
Shanghai Daily reports:
SHANGHAI leads all Chinese cities for computer connections - half of the city’s families subscribe to broadband, China Telecom said yesterday.
Shanghai’s broadband subscriber base has passed three million already, 15 times up from 2002, according to Shanghai Telecom, the city’s largest fixed-line phone operator.
Not too surprising there. The article has a number [...]
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