Archive for September, 2006

Sina opened video search engine

Sina has quietly launched video search under its search brand iAsk, iAsk video. Although it’s called video search, but it has features of a video sharing site. Users can upload videos and manage their clips collections. They also have personal profile page, although some advanced features like subscription are still missing.
The search result includes videos [...]

17 Million Bloggers In China

China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) recently released a survey report on development of blogosphere in China.
According to the report, by August 2006, there are 17.5 million bloggers in China who own 33.8 blogs in total, or 1.93 blogs per blogger in average. However, only about 28.2% blogs are still being updated. About 7.7 [...]

Oak Pacific To Lay Off 150 Staffs

Oak Pacific Interactive, who got $ 48 million investment from General Atlantic and other famous VCs in March, announced in its press release today that it will lay off about 150 staffs, that is approximately 10% of all its employees. (via sina)
The layoff will mainly affect Mop.com and Donews.com to streamline its business and [...]

Rumor: Tom to buy eBay Eachnet

CCID reported Tom will announce the acquiring of eBay Eachnet in several days. How much will that cost? The report said eBay has invested 2.8 billion USD in China. So this won’t be a cheap deal.
Why eBay should sell their China business? eBay is losing their share in China C2C market. According to a [...]

A brief rundown of Barcamp Shanghai

Yesterday, the first barcamp in China took place in Tudou’s office. Is it a success? Damn yes. I would share with you what I have learned in this event, if I can organize my random thoughts later and write down in a format making sense to public. In this post I just give a short [...]

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