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According to the latest report from CNNIC, total number of Internet users in China has achieved 210 million by December 2007, among which there are 163 million broadband users and 50.4 million accessing from mobile devices.

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Version one of Live Search Maps for China is launched. The application was built in China with a focus on getting the features most relevant to Chinese customers out first. Business search, Collections, and public transit features were emphasized, covering over 100 cities with 7 million business listings. I tested; it is pretty impressive. I [...]

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The 2007 China Massively Multiplayer Online [MMO] game market size is about four (4) times as big as the China online search market.The 2007 China online search market is about $0.4 billion in size, of which Baidu ( BIDU) has about 61% market share, Google (GOOG) has about 24%, and Yahoo! (YHOO) has about 10%. [...]

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According to CNNIC’s recent report, 74.5% people take Baidu as their top choice search engine, here is a summary:

Baidu: 74.5%
Google: 14.3%
Sogou.com: 2.8%
Sina search: 1.7%
YouDao.com (163)

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Credit: instant fundas 
Some bloggers discovered Google’s new scrolling ads for adsense, for example here, here and here. So, how or where did Google get this scrolling ads idea for its adsense? Let me guess…Baidu?

As a leader in search market in China, Baidu has advertising system for both search and content network. The picture shown above [...]

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YouTube has launched its localized version for Taiwan market last week. The new site YouTube.com.tw uses traditional Chinese focusing on local made contents from four Taiwan media partners.In addition YouTube has also launched local site for Hong Kong in traditional Chinese.
Is China the next? Maybe; maybe not. There are more than a hundred YouTube like [...]

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The9, an online game operator, announced partnership with a beverage company “tianwo” on dynamic marketing.
Under the partnership, tiaowo would produce soft drinks with the characters of the online games printed on its bottles.
Sina and Google announced strategic partnership on Monday.
Sina would benefit from Google’s search technologies for its search and shared profit of adsense ads. [...]

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Top 4 portal sites (sina, sohu, 163, tencent) Q3 online ad sales achieved 100 million USD for the first time, according to iResearch.

Sina: 45.8m
Sohu: 31.5m
163/Netease: 11.4m
Tencent: 19.3m

Microsoft launched short domain names W.cn and 9.cn
Alipay (a China PayPal, under Alibaba Group) enters Taiwan online payment market
However, transactions can’t be processed with either Taiwan currency or [...]

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Shortly after Google started using G.cn, Microsoft launched new domains W.cn and 9.cn for China online market. If you open either domain in your browser, you would be redirected to Windows Live registration page:

If you go to 9.cn/w.cn, your windows live ID would be sth@9.cn/w.cn. The user would be taken to the Windows Live Mail [...]

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You probably know Baidu dominates the China search market and Google is struggling to catch up. However, there are many people in China who don’t look for information with search engines.
Community sites such as discussion board, online forum, or BBS are very popular among Chinese youngsters not only in China but also foreign countries as [...]

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