Archive for May, 2006

Netease To Introduce New Blog Service In Q3

When Netease announced its first quarter financial results, William Ding, founder and CEO of Netease, said that it will introduce new blog service in the third quarter of 2006. The new blog service is capable to support tens of millions of users and have better features, such as full text search and more user-friendly.
Since Netease [...]

Maxthon and Vvlogger Raises Fund

Maxthon: As I reported in March, Maxthon, an IE-based internet browser, negotiated the investment with Charles River Ventures. Today, it goes official. Maxthon’s blog confirmed that CRV has invested in Maxthon. CRV joins early investors Morten Lund (Skype seed investor) and WI Harper who invested in Maxthon, June last year.
I used to be a fan [...]

Toodou Finished Series B Funding

Toodou, a leading podcasting site in China, announced its series B funding of USD 8.5 million. From its news release:
Toodou.com announced the completion of an US$8.5 million, Series B financing round, co-led by Granite Global Ventures (GGV) and JAFCO Asia (JAFCO). IDG Technology Venture, the Series A round investor, also participated in the round.
Helen [...]

State of Chinese Podosphere (May 2006)

Jack Gu of PodLook released his second statistics on the development of Chinese podcast in his blog. (The first statistics is here)
Key findings of his report are as follows:
1. The number of Chinese podcasters amounted to over 33000, a 70% growth compared with four month ago. The number of podcast is approximately 145,000, nearly tripled [...]

Qihoo: BBS Search Engine

Sam Flemming runs a company called CIC Data to monitor the internet in China, and do Internet word of mouth and competitive intelligence research for his clients. He believed there are more interesting conversations and larger volume of conversations on BBS, than blogs in China. So I think Qihoo, a BBS search engine, can help [...]

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