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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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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%
Yahoo Search: 2.1%
Sina search: 1.7%
soso.com (Tencent): 0.7%
YouDao.com (Netease 163): 0.6%

You probably don’t know most of them. I would introduce in details in future.

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Aftter Yahoo China’s plan for unlimited email storage in this coming October (source: ChinaByte), NetEase announced its plan of unlimited email storage yesterday in Beijing, whose email storage is already up to 3G. Unlimited plan would apply to all its email services; in addition, NetEase plans to provide free email arrival notification via SMS to [...]

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