Archive for May, 2007

Stats: 39 Million WAP Users in China

China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) just released a survey report (pdf file) on development of WAP in China.
The key findings of the report are as follows:

As of March 2007, there were about 39 million active wap users in China, they used mobile handsets to access WAP sites in last six months. About 90% [...]

Wenwen.com: Tencent’s Ask & Answer Service

Tencent, who operate the most popular IM service, QQ, in China, launched its ask & answer service under its search brand, Soso.com, and use another domain wenwen.com as well.
The first ask & answer community launched in China seemed to be Sina’s iAsk, before Sina rolled out its own search engine under the name of iAsk, [...]

The Online Video Editing Gang

We know that the video sharing market is crowded. As an effort to stand out from the rest of the peers, they more or less provide some online editing and recording features.
Unlike these by-products, services we talk about today are born to be online video editors. They are Sayjoy, Moochi and Biku. Sayjoy relaunched [...]

51.com Secured Second Round Funding

51.com, a popular social networking sites in China, has just closed its $10 million second round funding from Intel Capital, Redpoint and its existing investor Sequoia China and SIG. Some reports also said the amount of funding is $12 million.
51.com was founded in August 2005 by Pang Shengdong, Sequoia China and SIG invested in $4 [...]

Pomoho Deploys Vobile System For Copyright Tracking and Video Advertising

According to a press release several days ago, video sharing site Pomoho has implemented content identification system from Vobile, a video tracking technology provider headquartered in Santa Clara, with a R&D center in Hangzhou, China.
Content identification technology, which maps multimedia content to a unique acoustic/visual fingerprinting, will be widely used by UGC services to block [...]

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