Archive for January, 2007

Entertainment Site Koowo Got Funding of $5.5 Million

Yeelion Inc., who runs an entertainment site Koowo recently raised USD 5.5 million from Qiming Ventures and Ignition Partners. (via ChinaVenture)
Koowo is an entertainment information sites which currently is focused on providing aggregated information on celebrities, such as movie and drama stars. The site builds a topic page for each star, for example, this is [...]

What Are Chinese Mobile Users Search For?

mInfo, a Chinese mobile search provider who claimed it having over 6 million registered users by the end of 2006, released some data on its users’ mobile searching behavior in 2006.
According to mInfo, 41% of its users used mInfo to search for local business information such as bars, hotels and ATMs, 31% search for [...]

ChinaVenture: Summary of VC Investment in Video Sites

Following the summary of venture investment on social networking sites, ChinaVenture released another report on vc investment in video sites in China.
According to ChinaVenture, 17 Chinese online video sites, including p2p video service provider, online video on-demand and broadcasting service provider and video sharing sites, were reported to get funding of $95.5 million in [...]

The State of Chinese Podosphere (Jan. 2007)

PodLook, the podcasting directory and search service, release its latest statistics(PDF file) on the development of Chinese podcast.
As of Jan 10th, 2007, the number of China’s podcaster amounted to 215,957, more than doubled in five months. The number of podcasts reached over 2.86 million, a 463% increase since Podlook’s last statistics report in August, 2006. [...]

Yahoo China to Reorganized as Business-Oriented Search?

Yahoo China is going to transforming into a business-oriented search engine to deal with the intense competition from domestic rivals, Jack Ma, CEO of Yahoo China said recently.
Ma said company research showed its search engine attracted more affluent, business-oriented customers, while Baidu’s users were largely students. He said Yahoo China will seek to capitalize [...]

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