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 [...]