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Can Chinese internet pioneer Sohu pull off a comeback after missing the mobile era?

Can Chinese internet pioneer Sohu pull off a comeback after missing the mobile era?

Its best year was in 2011 when it posted an annual net profit of US$162.7 million.
Iris Deng · · 5 min read
China’s tech companies affected by Tianjin blast

China’s tech companies affected by Tianjin blast

Though it pales in comparison to the human horror and suffering that was unleashed by this week’s deadly chemical blast in Tianjin, the explosion has also had a significant effect on some of China’s biggest tech enterprises.
C. Custer · · 2 min read
Controversial documentary about pollution in China is now being scrubbed from the web

Controversial documentary about pollution in China is now being scrubbed from the web

With the crushing inevitability of a lungful of toxins on a Beijing spring morning, China’s controversial documentary about pollution, Under the Dome, is this evening being scrubbed from the internet.
Steven Millward · · 2 min read
A portrait of China’s biggest tech CEOs: visionaries, copycats, and playboys

A portrait of China’s biggest tech CEOs: visionaries, copycats, and playboys

I interviewed about a dozen native Chinese people in Beijing to find out a) who they saw as their entrepreneurial celebrities and b) what they thought of them.
Paul Bischoff · · 7 min read

China doesn’t want ‘losers’ to become trendy, bans hugely popular web series

Just days after The Big Bang Theory and other American TV shows got the smackdown, another popular entertainment series has been pulled from the Chinese internet, though this time government authorities
Josh Horwitz · · 3 min read

The Big Bang Theory and 3 other US TV shows banned from China’s video sites

China’s media regulator has ordered the country’s video streaming sites to remove four American TV series.
Steven Millward · · 2 min read

China forces video sites to hire government-approved censors

Update March 27, 2014 @ 11:30am – China’s state news agency Xinhua has released a report denying heavier scrutiny of US and UK video content online, citing an anonymous source from
Paul Bischoff · · 3 min read

China’s Sohu sees improved revenues on all fronts, but profits fall

Chinese online media giant Sohu’s Q4 revenues rose 29 percent compared to last year to $385 million, but a 78 percent rise in operating expenses used up $248 million of that (transcript
Paul Bischoff · · 3 min read

China’s 450 million online video viewers watch 5.7 billion hours of vids every month (INFOGRAPHIC)

When the hotly-anticipated third season of Sherlock returned to screens last week, there were only two places in the world where you could watch it on the same day, legally
Steven Millward · · 2 min read

Changyou acquires Raidcall group voice service for $50 million, wants gamers to get chatty

Changyou (NASDAQ:CYOU), the Chinese online game developer and operator that runs titles like Blade Wars and Grand Chase, wants its gamers to get more chatty. That’s why the company has
Steven Millward · · 1 min read