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Google: Mobile Opportunity in the Chinese Market Is Phenomenal

By Chris Chang, posted January 28, 2012 at 7:26 AM, 265 views

If you’re like most people living in China, you’re annoyed by China’s censorship machine. Google is also annoyed by China’s censorship system, and considering how the search giant chose to end censorship of search results two years ago, we believe Google is very pissed with China. Today, what more could Google do in China? Well, Daniel Alegre, president of Google’s Asia-Pacific operations said that the company’s momentum in China will largely be spurred by its “non-sensitive” advertising business on the mobile and desktop. And Google’s business in China is growing…

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China Provides Unfettered Internet Access For Golf Superstars

By Herman Lai, posted November 28, 2011 at 11:00 AM, 268 views

China is famously known for its excessive censorship of the Internet, has been temporarily lifted its great firewall because of the Golf World Cup. Golfers, caddies, journalists and fans at the five-star Mission Hills golf complex in Hainan can get access to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. All thanks to the Hong Kong brothers.

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Why Can’t China Be A “Good Friend” With U.S. Internet Companies?

By Herman Lai, posted November 16, 2011 at 1:15 PM, 361 views

As we all know, many western internet companies especially Google, were unable to access into China due to censorship issue. And this is making China grow like a massive intranet and isolating itself from the rest of the world. The U.S. official is now pressing China to explain why its “national firewall” blocks so many U.S. companies from providing their services via the Internet.

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Sina Weibo Forms A Team To Control Rumors

By Herman Lai, posted November 10, 2011 at 12:41 PM, 262 views

Sina Weibo, the most popular Twitter-like service in China, recently announced their platform had reached up to 250 million users and also declared the company formed a special team to ‘control rumor’ spreading across its platform. The team aimed to crack down any false rumors as well as to help government with crackdown activity. We are curious of how many human resource does Sina need to use in order to control rumor? How does the team judge the credibility of rumors? Well, let see what the director of the team (Tan Chao) said.

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China’s Tech Firms Support Government in Controls on Internet (Video)

By Star Chang, posted November 7, 2011 at 9:13 PM, 366 views

We believe this is going to become ugly and evil ! China’s major technology firms are supporting China’s Communist Party in its mission to intensify controls of social media and are pledging to stop the spread of false rumors on the Internet. Various top executives including Baidu’s Robin Li, Alibaba’s Jack Ma and Tencent’s Pony Ma have attended the three-day conference during last weekend, which hosted by the State Internet Information Office. China’s Internet companies and operators reached a common agreement that they would safeguard the broadcasting of positive messages and curb the spread of illegal information on the Internet …

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Netizens Sending Out Million RMB via Alipay to Help Out Dissident Chinese Artist Ai WeiWei

By Herman Lai, posted November 5, 2011 at 2:58 AM, 587 views

The dissident Chinese Artists Ai Weiwei had showed up across international news headline since he was arrested and detained without charge by the Chinese government for 81-days. Ai was released by the government but still carrying an accusation of $2.4m tax evasion that had to be paid within 15 days. From now on, he still got about 10 days to collect the fund. If he didn’t pay the penalty, his wife could go to jail. The incident drew lot of his supporters to give out helping hands.

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How Apple Hunts Down Fake Apple Products

By Chris Chang, posted August 30, 2011 at 6:11 PM, 4,712 views

How does Apple fight against Chinese counterfeits? Well, looks like there’s a detailed explanation on that, according to the documents from U.S. diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks last week. The details? Apple assembled an anti-counterfeit team that includes a former FBI special agent.

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Canadian Criticize Chinese Government while Buying Train Ticket (Video)

By Star Chang, posted August 15, 2011 at 5:58 PM, 1,179 views

The incident was happened in Wuhan, a populous city in central China. A Canada tourist was trying to buy the train ticket while he was asked to show his passport first, to verify his identity. Any passengers who want to ride trains in China will find themselves having to pay attention to a new ticketing system adopted by the railway authorities. A real-name ticket sales system aims to make buying a ticket more convenient and fair, and fighting against ticket-scalping. Nevertheless, the new rule has made some western tourist to be in a maze. The candid video was uploaded to internet about a month ago, and it has already been pulled down from various video hosting sites in China. We are a little bit late for this one, but the video is still worth to share it around ! Click in and enjoy !

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So Much News in China… #003

By Star Chang, posted July 10, 2011 at 7:26 AM, 430 views

You know, there’s so much news in China. Maybe you took a post-July 4th vacation and couldn’t check your favorite Chinese tech sites all week. Or maybe you spent it doing nothing but working and you’re catching up now.

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Western Companies To Aid China Monitoring Its Citizens

By Herman Lai, posted July 5, 2011 at 1:27 PM, 300 views

Several western companies had involved in an ambitious new surveillance project in China. Cisco System Inc. will install 500,000 cameras in Chongqing City in the coming three years for public safety. But presumably, this wasn’t the main purpose. The Chinese government wants more control on crimes as well as keeping an eyes on political activists instead.

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