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Voice Matters: Baidu Launches Voice Search, QQ Voice Mail Follows

Today Baidu’s voice search formally launched, not available for registration though. This is not news if you are an old reader. We first reported it in last August. Now it seems Baidu finally made the decision on how to operate the service.
You will use the service in this way: Call 400-666-8585 with any phone, tell [...]

Taobao Mobile Version Ready

It’s reported that Taobao launched Wap version for cell phone on Feb. 27, available at wap.taobao.com. It’s an integrated platform that users can finish order and checkout process in one place. The checkout feature is provided by Alipay, another child company of Alibaba.
Now daily payment is limited to RMB 2000. Online auction feature is not [...]

Baidu Launches Online Security Service

Yesterday, Baidu launched its new security center under the domain of an.baidu.com. Now it simply provides two services: vulnerability and virus scanner. They are both by ActiveX plugins, so users don’t have to manually download anything. But certainly they are IE friendly only.
Formerly, Baidu has an anti-virus channel, which is a product promotion area for [...]

PPdai Secures First Round Of Funding

Jack Gu, Co-founder of Ppdai, a social loan service, just informed us that the company has finished a funding from Essentia Private Equity recently. The number is not disclosed. Here’s the excerpts:
We just finished a funding from Essentia Equity recently. As the first Chinese P2P lending website, since we going public in July 2007, PPDai.com [...]

Zero2IPO Launches Venture Database

Can startup information be monetized? Zero2IPO thinks it has found a way by using a yellow pages model. China Venture Database is going to be a centralized repository about company, people and deals information.
While there’re plenty of tech blogs reporting new products every day. We are not really lack of timely news. But we [...]

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