Posts Categorized: Business


Jack Ma, Chairman of Alibaba, talks piracy in China

E-Commerce Giant Alibaba Works With Chinese Government to Bring Down Piracy in China

China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba is working with five Chinese government agencies to fight piracy ...

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  • April 23, 2013
  • at 9:43 pm
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FoodPanda Asia

Foodpanda: Rocket Internet’s Play At Food Delivery in Asia

Rocket Internet’s online food delivery website, Foodpanda, was launched last year in April and...

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  • April 22, 2013
  • at 10:39 pm
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LightInTheBox

China’s LightInTheBox Files for $86 Million US IPO to Expand its E-Commerce Business

If you want to source goods from China, there are other choices beyond Alibaba/AliExpress. One of th...

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  • April 18, 2013
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Dangdang CEO Li Guoqing

Dangdang to Release E-Reader with Hybrid Touch/E-ink Screen in May

It seems Dangdang is mentioned less and less these days in conversations about China’s major e...

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  • April 18, 2013
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CNNIC: Chinese E-commerce Market Exceeded $190 Billion in 2012

The China Internet Network Information Center released its numbers for Chinese e-commerce in 2012 an...

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  • April 17, 2013
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Softbank Sprint Dish deal

Dish Offers $25.5 Billion For Sprint, Disrupting the American Dream of Japan’s Softbank

Softbank (TYO:9984) offered $20 billion for mobile telco Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) last year, but the d...

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  • April 15, 2013
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Jingdong Picks Up E-Banking Domain, Moving Towards New Online Payment Platform?

Chinese e-commerce giant 360Buy — which I suppose I ought to be calling Jingdong now — q...

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  • April 13, 2013
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vietnamworks

VietnamWorks, Vietnam’s Top Online Recruitment Site, Gets Acquired By En-Japan

In a surprise move today, en-japan, from Japan obviously, is acquiring Navigos group, the company be...

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  • April 11, 2013
  • at 10:54 pm
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Apple’s Defective Phone Returns Could Cost Foxconn $160 Million (If Any of This is Real)

Reports in the Chinese press over the past few days have been suggesting that Apple has returned aro...

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  • April 23, 2013
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Jingdong, JD Global site

How China’s Jingdong is Looking to Overseas Chinese Customers to Kickstart Global Sales

Back in October last year, China’s second-biggest B2C e-commerce site launched a global versio...

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  • April 22, 2013
  • at 2:48 pm
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china apple sucks

Chinese State Media: 60% of Consumers Are Starting To Think Apple Sucks

China’s state media outlets — mostly CCTV and the People’s Daily — have been...

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  • April 18, 2013
  • at 11:10 am
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Cisco 20 years in Singapore, new office

Cisco Celebrates 20 Years in Singapore With Huge New Office

Networking equipment maker Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) is celebrating 20 years of operating in Singapore wit...

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  • April 17, 2013
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FEO Luxury Gallery

PropertyGuru Launches ‘Luxury Gallery’ for Classy Condos and Pricey Penthouses

PropertyGuru announced this afternoon that it has formed a strategic partnership with Far East Organ...

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  • April 16, 2013
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Baidu Qunar funding

Baidu-Backed Travel Site Qunar Reportedly Gets $57 Million Funding Round

Chinese search engine Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) invested $306 million in Qunar back in the summer of 2011 ...

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  • April 15, 2013
  • at 12:35 pm
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Tencent Has Bought Back $73 Million of Its Own Stock This Week

On Thursday, Chinese tech giant Tencent (HKG:0700) announced that had purchased back 92 million RMB ...

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  • April 12, 2013
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Is This Apple’s First Official Store in Indonesia? Probably Not

About two days ago, someone spotted an under construction store at Indonesia’s Pasaraya Blok M ...

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  • April 11, 2013
  • at 7:00 pm
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