Chinese Internet portal NetEase.com announced that the company will officially close its blog services and recommends users to move their blogs to LOFTER, a microblog service at NetEase. According to NetEase, the blogs moving to LOFTER will maintain the same contents. Meanwhile, the company will completely shut down its blog services in the coming weeks. […]
Chen Yizhou, chief executive officer of Renren, says the company is planning to sell some non-core businesses to improve their profitability and they are also considering investment and expansion opportunities in America and Hong Kong. Chen revealed during an interview with local Chinese media that under the current model it is hard for the company […]
Tencent Holdings Limited is investing USD70 million into Ting Ting Group, the owner of Chinese online healthcare service community DXY.cn. Tencent gains a minority equity stake of DXY on a fully diluted and as converted basis, and the deal is expected to close soon. DXY plans to invest the capital into developing healthcare products for […]
Microsoft will officially close its instant messaging service MSN in China on October 31, 2014. Microsoft already shut down MSN services worldwide in March 2013, with the exclusion of the Chinese mainland market; and the company started promoting its other communications product Skype. According to Microsoft, Chinese MSN services will be shut down on October […]
With a newly-minted IPO under its belt, Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com Inc. announced today that is now taking pre-orders for Microsoft’s Xbox One gaming console. As part of an agreement between the companies, JD.com will have the exclusive right to accept pre-orders for Xbox One in China from July 28-30, 2014, through JD.com’s Mobile QQ […]
Chinese telecom operator China Mobile announced its annual results for 2013 in Hong Kong, and those financial numbers did not impress. During the entire year of 2013, China Mobile’s operating revenue was CNY630.2 billion, a year-on-year increase of 8.3%; but its net profit was CNY121.7 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 5.9%. This is reportedly the […]
The People’s Bank of China has issued an emergency alert to stop the use of virtual credit card products as well as two-dimensional code payments that are often used with mobile devices. Chinese Internet companies like Alipay and Tencent previously launched such services. However, neither company has given any comment on the situation. The emergency […]
Chinese tourism booking platform 17u.cn announced that the company has received a CNY500 million investment from Tencent, Boyu Capital, and Oriza Holdings. According to 17u.cn, the company still maintains the controlling stake after receiving the investment and the company still aims at an independent IPO in the future. Wu Zhixiang, chief executive officer of 17u.cn, […]
Chinese Internet company Tencent and American business technology website Business Insider reportedly signed a cooperation agreement, under which Tencent will become the exclusive content partner for Business Insider in Greater China. With the cooperation, Business Insider’s contents will be recommended to Chinese readers who pay attention to the global financial technology news via Tencent’s media […]
Twitter’s just-released initial public offering prospectus shows China is still an important deficit in its global growth strategy. In Twitter’s F-1 IPO statement, the company said it is raising USD1 billion, which is largely a pro forma number until the company calculates fees and eyes its roadshow. The company recorded USD317 million in revenue in […]
Chinese Internet company Tencent sent an internal email to announce that Bu Guangqi, chief executive officer of Yixun.com, has been appointed new vice president of Tencent.
Kingsoft Corporation Limited recently published a report, stating that the company will acquire an addition stake in Kingsoft Network along with Tencent, with USD46.98 million additional investment from Tencent and USD5.22 million from Kingsoft Corporation.
Ibibo, the Indian joint venture invested by China’s Tencent and South Africa’s Naspers, has reportedly acquired an Indian online bus ticket website named RedBus.in.
Chinese Internet company Tencent announced that its WeChat service has gained over 50 million registered users.
Chinese Internet company Tencent may acquire a 15% stake in Patimas Computers, an information communication technology provider in Malaysia.
Chinese Internet company Tencent recently completed its staff layout in its North American office, and about 20 employees were dismissed during this adjustment, accounting for 40% of its total employees in North America.
Ma Xiaoyi, vice president of Tencent, said during the Global Mobile Game Congress in Beijing this week that Tencent plans to launch an integrated mobile gaming platform, covering Tencent’s major mobile applications and quality products developed by third-party mobile game developers.
Chinese Internet company Tencent published its financial report for the fourth quarter and the entire year of 2012.
According to an internal email reportedly sent by Bu Guangqi, chief executive officer of Tencent’s e-commerce subsidiary 51buy.com, the company will implement a structural adjustment, aiming at sales of CNY15 billion to CNY20 billion in 2013.
Chinese online marketing is booming, and Tencent just announced the launch of its advertising real-time trade platform Tencent AdExchange, marking its formal entry into the Chinese real time bidding market.
Chinese Internet company Tencent revealed that Zheng Jingwei, former chief operating officer of AdChina, has joined Tencent as general manager for the advertising platform unit of the networking media group.
Chinese Internet company Tencent’s online payment service Tenpay and American Express have reached cross-border payment cooperation and the two parties have jointly launched a new virtual payment product.
Chinese B2C e-commerce website Dangdang.com and Alibaba’s B2C Internet shopping site Tmall.com have jointly announced that Dangdang.com has opened a flagship store on Tmall.com, selling books and daily commodities.
Ma Mingzhe, chairman of Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd, confirmed to Chinese local media that the company has cooperated with Alibaba Group and Tencent Group in the establishment of a new insurance joint venture for Chinese consumers.
Chinese group buying website Ftuan.com announced that its physical company has been renamed from Beijing Kala Interactive Technology Company Limited to Beijing Wangluo Tianxia Life Technology Company Limited, and both Ftuan.com and Gaopeng.com will be integrated into the company.
Chinese Internet shopping website Taobao.com has launched an application store under the domain App.taobao.com.
Ftuan.com, a Chinese group buying website, and Gaopeng.com, the joint venture between Tencent and Groupon, have reportedly completed their merger and integration, and the new company will be led by Lin Ning from Ftuan.com.
Chinese social networking giant Tencent has acquired a minority stake in U.S. game company Epic Games.
