“Jack Ma looks desperate right now,” says business analyst Shaun Rein at the BBC about the founder and chairman of the Alibaba Group. Alibaba has announced its IPO, but feels the breath of its major competitor Tencent coming from behind.Read More →
Global job internet search venture LinkedIn has started its China operation this week, a country where many internet firms have already failed. LinkedIn faces tough competition, but has a chance, says business analyst Ben Cavender in PCWorld. But we should not expect a quick fix.Read More →
China´s leading search engine Baidu launched just before Chinese New Year a heatmap, showing how the millions of Chinese make their way home and back. Director international communication Kaiser Kuo show some of the findings and patterns Baidu discovered to the Wall Street Journal.Read More →
Until recently, the mobile internet was one of the weak points of China’s leading search engine Baidu. Apps are key for mobile internet, explains their director international communication Kaiser Kuo to CKGSB Knowledge. And that explains exactly the recent acquisitions by Baidu.Read More →
The story Shanghai’s Free Trade Zone will offer investors uncensored internet, is a very small, but highly symbolic move by China’s government, explains business analyst Shaun Rein in Bloomberg. Some sections of the government are listening to complaints by foreign and Chinese business leaders, but do not expect major changes fast.Read More →
Story of the day is the Shanghai’s new Free Trade Zone might allow Twitter, Facebook and other western social media on the internet. About time, says business analyst Shaun Rein in CNBC as the current limitations hurt the competitiveness of Chinese companies.Read More →
Internet snooping by the NSA might still keep on shocking the world, it does not stop the US from raising security concerns when other countries – like China – plan to do the same. Defense analyst Wendell Minnick looked at a new paper commissioned by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) for Defense News.Read More →
No smoking and no pets are the major bans at China’s largest search engine Baidu, tells Kaiser Kuo, director international communication at the firm. Despite restrictions, China’s internet offers its users more freedom than the average American might thing, he tells in Star Tribune.Read More →
The internet censorship is worse than ever over the past ten years, tells business analyst Shaun Rein at Bloomberg. And it is hurting business. For internet companies going global, China’s internet policies are a big hurdle to enter markets outside China, he says.Read More →
China’s largest search engine Baidu, number two in the world, is expanding globally. Kaiser Kuo, director international communication, explains in Knowledge CKGSB its global strategy, and why Egypt is high on the list of countries it wants to conquer.Read More →
Chinese companies are going global, but they would rather take on developing countries. Those are not always the easiest markets, tells Kaiser Kuo, communication director of the country’s largest search engine Baidu in CKGSB Knowledge. Read More →
Much of the news this week is dominated by the discovery of China hacks into the US, linked directly to the People’s Liberation Army, with names, addresses and pictures of offices. Defense analyst Wendell Minnick tells the VOA he is not really surprised by the report.Read More →