Facebook began as a campus-wide social network for students, and a newly-invested business in China is claiming a similar origin …
Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba announced plans to invest in online English learning website TutorGroup. Along with investors Temasek and Qiming Venture Partners, the total investments made in this round with Alibaba are nearly USD100 million. This is reportedly the second round financing for TutorGroup. The company said that with the new investments, TutorGroup plans to […]
China’s Alibaba Group announced the launch of an intern training plan, aiming to recruit 102 interns around the world and provide one-on-one training by business leaders and executives within the organization.
China Internet Network Information Center recently published its 31st Internet survey report, stating that by the end of December 2012, the number of Internet users in China had reached 564 million and the Internet penetration rate was 42.1%, which was 3.8 percentage points higher than 2011.
Chinese Internet company Sohu.com has announced plans to build a new research and development center in Wuhan, Hubei province, and it will set up a joint laboratory in collaboration with Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
Aiming to encourage Chinese university graduates to start their own businesses and spread capitalism through China, Chinese Internet company Tencent announced the launch of its new innovative application lab in Tianjin.
Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba has announced plans to launch a CNY3 billion housing loan scheme for its employees and a CNY500 million education fund to solve the preschool and primary education problems of children of its employees.
Tsinghua University and Mozilla China have jointly developed a new Internet browser product that is specially designed for IPv6.
ELL Technologies Limited has entered into an online distribution agreement with China Distance Education Holdings Limited.
The China Telecom Chongqing branch has launched a new mobile payment platform for students, aiming to promote the information development on campuses via the Internet of Things technologies.
Chinese Internet search engine firm Baidu.com and the School of International Business of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou have jointly announced the launch of an elective course in search engine marketing.
Chinese telecom operator China Unicom’s Beijing branch has recently launched a promotion by providing free trials of broadband “green” accounts to help protect Chinese youth from harmful information.
China’s Ministry of Education says that the networks of all China’s schools shall be subject to monitoring and education departments at each level shall conduct regular checkups on these networks and guide the schools in installing green online filtering software to remove bad information.
