Archive for February, 2008

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 [...]

The Secrets of Baidu’s Investment

Ku6.com, a video sharing sites in China, is the exclusive video service provider for Baidu’s very popular Tieba, or Baidu Postbar service. In Jan. 2008, Kevin Lee, founder of Ku6.com confirmed the long time rumor that Baidu is an investor of Ku6.com.
However, an article in the first issue of CBNWeekly disclosed some inside story [...]

Taobao to Open API in 2008

Lack of open API is one the the reason that you cannot find many interesting small innovative web apps in China. An open API from e-commerce sites may be more important and useful, since it is very possible that the web apps can be part of the ecosystem of the e-commerce sites, and generate revenues [...]

ivsou.com: A Visual Shopping Search Engine from China

Like.com, the first visual shopping search engine, has had robust traffic growth and headed toward profitability, while in China, ivsou.com aims to be a successful Chinese like.com.
Similar to Like.com, ivsou.com, launched in last December, offers a visual product search engine service, it means you can find items based on images instead of text, it [...]

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