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SOFTBANK Leads Investment totaling $430 million in Oak Pacific Interactive

From Yahoo,
BEIJING, China–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oak Pacific Interactive (OPI), the leading provider of Web 2.0 communities in China, announced today that SOFTBANK Corp. has agreed to lead an investment totaling $430 million for approximat...

QQ announces 2007 earnings | Facebook should look carefully

There are some numbers you should notice. All of them are about Tencent’s QQ, China’s leading online community (270 million accounts, 400 million USD in revenues in 2007).
Here is the pdf version  of TENCENT ANNOUNCES 2007 FOURTH QU...

CCTV-China goes online for Beijing Olympics

China’s national television broadcaster, CCTV, is teaming up with two Internet ventures to exploit the Beijing Olympics’ status as the first Summer Games expected to attract droves of online viewers, reports the Wall Street Journal.
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Film Studios Sue Chinese P2P Site Xunlei for $1 Million

From Reuters, Fri Feb 15, 2008,
Six U.S. film studios have filed civil complaints against Chinese file-sharing firm Xunlei Networking Technology Co Ltd, part-owned by Google Inc, for copyright infringement and are seeking more than 7 million ...

Reader’s Digest for Chinese readers

(Source: Danwei)
Reader’s Digest has broken into the Chinese market.
A licensing agreement with the Shanghai Press and Publication Development Corporation brings the general-interest magazine to the mainland, where it is published un...

MII Announces 2007 Statistics

source: Xinhuanet, 1/26/08
edited by www.marbridgeconsulting.com
China’s Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has released its full-year 2007 telecom industry statistics. Telecom revenues totaled RMB 728 bln (USD 98 bln), up 10.9% ...

China Steps Up Internet Video Control

(Source:New York Times)
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: January 30, 2008
BEIJING (AP) — China will take a new step Thursday to tighten control of the Internet when rules go into force limiting online video-sharing to state c...

Decimal network security address begins operation

China’s decimal network security address was officially launched. China has made a fundamental breakthrough in its Internet development; and actual use has been successful.
The birth of decimal network technology makes China the only count...

China’s Internet market to hit 164b yuan in 2008

BEIJING - China’s Internet market scale is expected to jump by 40 percent to 163.5 billion yuan in 2008, according to the estimates of CCID Consulting, a leading market consultant.
“Online games and e-commerce are the major driving f...

China Produces 402 Films in 2007

Tong Gang, director of the Film Bureau of the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television, disclosed that in 2007 China produced 402 feature films with RMB 3.327 bln earned at the box office. A total of 78 films were sold to 47 countries and r...