Posted on September 28th, 2007 by startuplay
Sina.com today released news that The9 (NCTY) has secretly signed an agreement with Shanghai Alliance Investment to take over 50% of the stake of MSN China for half of msn’s estimated value (200million). According to report:
“不太可能”，不少分析人士对该消息皆称“惊讶”。不过，据消息人士透露，上述交易可能牵涉微软与九城间更深层次的资本合作，“其模式或类同当年雅虎与阿里巴巴的‘雅巴组合’”。如此来看，接盘背后九城与微软可能皆有更庞大的战略阳谋。
there is a likelyhood of a similar cooperation as that of Yahoo and Alibaba. Microsoft previously released news about […]
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Posted on September 18th, 2007 by startuplay
Notable Facts:
Baidu and Google have grown their market share at the expense of the smaller players like Yahoo! and Sogou
Sina (with 49% share) dominates traffic to web sites for non-search purposes with Sohu & Netease following the lead
Google Vs Baidu demographics show close correlation in age, gender and education level
The Survey only covered Beijing, Shanghai […]
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Posted on September 7th, 2007 by startuplay
Again and again rural issues come up in China’s development as foreign companies have trouble differentiating the uprise of first-tire cities from the rest of rural areas. Well today CNNIC released a report stating the number of of rural internet users, and considering the fact that CNNIC has been known to underestimate the number of […]
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