<![CDATA[ClarioTech China's IT, mobile phone, and Internet reviews and news]]><![CDATA[The End Of Social Networking Sites In China?]]>A new report issued by a Chinese government-funded research organization states Facebook and Western social networking sites pose spy risks, and these problems should make social media mavens worry about possible clampdowns on social networking sites in China.

]]><![CDATA[China Approves 13 Class A Internet Map Operators]]>China's State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping has published its review comments for the Class A mapping qualification on its official website and has approved 13 companies, including Baidu.com and Sogou.com, to operate Internet map services in China.

]]><![CDATA[Taiwanese Udn.com To Tap E-commerce Opportunities]]>According to reports in Taiwanese local media, Udn.com, the official website of the island's well-known news media United Daily News, has cooperated with Gohappy.com.tw, the online shopping website owned by Far Eastern Group in Taiwan, in the launch of a shopping channel http://udn.gohappy.com.tw/.

]]><![CDATA[Google celebrates Pac-Man anniversary with doodle game]]>In case you've not needed to Google your own name, check the weather or conduct a search for pictures of Justin Bieber you'll probably have missed the Pac-Man game that has appeared in place of the Google logo on their homepage -- and if you have seen it then well done for navigating away. But from the moment you finish reading this post your productive day will officially be over.

]]><![CDATA[Taobao and Yahoo Japan team up on e-commerce]]>Taobao, a Chinese shopping Web site, and Yahoo Inc.'s site in Japan (Yahoo Japan) are teaming up to allow businesses that use either site to sell through the other as well.

]]><![CDATA[LIUXUER.COM, Objective, Practical Info for Study Abroad Decision-making]]>LIUXUER.COM is a platform that provides objective, and practical infomation for study abroad decision making. The whole website includes three big databases, 1700 US universities, 400 Chinese study abroad agencies, and 80 English training schools. Search and comparison are two major functions of LIUXUER.COM

]]><![CDATA[34Lady--Woman's Personal Brand Navigation Website]]>Recently, 34LADY(33334444.com.cn), a navigation website specially designed for women, went alive. It brings together ideas of thousands of woman netizens, and aims to be a professional platform and a fashion home where ladies can do shopping, entertainment, and social networking.

]]><![CDATA[Google moves off China mainland]]>Google has said that it has closed its search engine business on the Chinese mainland, in a move to avoid censoring its Chinese-language search engine. The richest internet firm in the world made the annoncement on Tuesday, after months of tension with China, although it will keep some research and development, and sales offices in the country.

]]><![CDATA[Google ‘99% certain’ to shut China engine]]>Google has drawn up detailed plans for the closure of its Chinese search engine and is now “99.9 per cent” certain to go ahead as talks over censorship with the Chinese authorities have reached an apparent impasse, according to a person familiar with the company’s thinking.

]]><![CDATA[360buy Completes Acquisition of SK Telecom's Qianxun]]>Business-to-consumer IT e-commerce site 360buy.com announced March 11 that it has completed the acquisition of SK Telecom's (NYSE:SKM, 017670.SEO) Beijing-based business-to-consumer shopping site Qianxun.com, reports Sohu. 360buy.com did not reveal the price of the acquisition, but a company insider said that compensation was between RMB 3 million and RMB 4 million, the report said.

]]><![CDATA[RENREN.COM Recruitment Platfom Goes Live]]>Recently, the recuritement platform (zhaopin.renren.com) of one of China's famous SNS website, RENREN.COM, went live. It is said that RENREN.COM will invite companies that really have job vacancies to post recruitment infomation there. All the  infomation is free, reliable, and accurate to the job hunter.

]]><![CDATA[Gooje Rises to Fame Overnight, Google Not Alone Any More]]>Inspired by Google’s announcement of withdrawing from China, a team of 20 members launched a new website GOOJE (www.gooje.com). Only within half a month, GOOJE was reported by hundreds of domestic media and dozens of foreign media. The highest traffic ranked the 14272 globally and 651 in China. According to the webmaster, GOOJE attracted RMB 100mn advertisement from Taobao and a VC up to tens of million. However, on Feb 4, GOOJE was attacked by hackers, which made the website collapsed. Right now people can access to the website via the temp URL www.dierqi.com.

]]><![CDATA[Qianxun.com plans to reduce staff]]>It is said that QIANXUN.COM, the online shopping website, already started cutting its staff. There are only about 80 employees remaining now. The redundancy will end after the Spring Festival. Previous, one insider of QIANXUN.COM said that SK is planning to stop investing QIANXUN.COM and the website also stoped its CPS advertisement.

]]><![CDATA[Baidu Robin Li: do not deliberatly strive for users]]>Baidu CEO Robin Li said in a recent media interview that Baidu did not deliberatly strive for users. In addition, he also said that Baidu has not thought to learn Google.

]]><![CDATA[China：Google's announcement to clarify rumors brings in more speculations]]>In the past few days we have heard many rumors about Google China and its local employees. Some reported that we have shut down the offices in China and some claimed our Chinese staff would lose their jobs in the near future. These rumors are not true! Chinese employees of Google.cn are, as usual, working in the office, discussing product development and talking with our clients.

]]><![CDATA[Beijing Students' SNS Goes Live]]>BJEDU.CC specially launched an SNS (home.bjedu.cc) for primary and secondary students in Beijing. The site claims to use real-name registration system.

]]><![CDATA[SUNING.CN Goes Live]]>Home appliance retailer Suning's e-commerce platform SUNING.CN formally went live today and the retailer giant also announced its future development strategy of occupying more than 20% of the home appliance e-commerce market to make it China's largest 3C (computer, communications, consumer electronics) home appliance B2C website.

]]><![CDATA[Hillary’s Speech: Internet Freedom]]>In many respects, information has never been so free. There are more ways to spread more ideas to more people than at any moment in history. Even in authoritarian countries, information networks are helping people discover new facts and making governments more accountable.

]]><![CDATA[Google China returns to normal operation]]>One week after announced its withdrawal from the China market, the U.S. Internet giant said its business in China once again return to normal operation. After the statement, the staff had a one-week holiday so that Google could run the tests and scans to ensure safe and reliable network," Google In response to queries Agence France-Presse said, "Google China staff already went back to work . Everything goes well. "

]]><![CDATA[Google announces end of censorship in China]]>Google has today revealed that in mid-December, they, along with a number of other large companies in the Internet, finance, technology, media and chemical sectors, were targeted in a sophisticated cyber-attack. This attack on their infrastructure originated in China, and resulted in the theft of intellectual property.

]]><![CDATA[Hackers attack Baidu]]>Baidu, China's largest Internet search engine, was the target of a four-hour cyber attack yesterday, the most severe since it was established in 1999. The company said it had restored services for most Internet users by 6 pm. A hacker group, calling itself Iranian Cyber Army, hijacked Baidu's home page and left a message in Farsi saying that the act was a protest against foreign involvement in Iran's domestic politics.

]]><![CDATA[BT sites inaccessible, netizens distressed]]>Internet users are scrabbling for downloads from BitTorrent (BT) websites following speculation that authorities will shut them down as early as this week.


BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data. BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files, and it has been estimated that it accounts for approximately 27-55% of all Internet traffic .There has been much controversy over the use of BitTorrent trackers. BitTorrent metafiles themselves do not store copyrighted data. Whether the publishers of BitTorrent metafiles violate copyrights by linking to copyrighted material is controversial.

]]><![CDATA[Office 2010 beta goes public]]>Microsoft announced on Wednesday that the beta of Office 2010 is now publicly available from the company's Web site and from CNET Download.com.

]]><![CDATA[Analysis of B2C e-commerce model used for reference]]> (China Research Center for Electronic Commerce News) for the next years of e-commerce, B2C e-commerce is bound to the mainstream.  B2C e-commerce development in China is far behind the pace of C2C, with the advent of the economic crisis in 2008, traditional enterprises have test water B2C model, thus, it begins to enter a phase of rapid development.  Today, B2C e-commerce after decades of development and experience has a certain scale model, for which the field of marine science and technology combines senior members of the views of e-commerce, sorting out at home and abroad in several B2C e-commerce model for your reference reference.

]]><![CDATA[Phishing Attacks Plague Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo & More]]>A phishing attack is targeting thousands of web-based email users, according to the BBC and Read Write Web. Tens of thousands of users of each site have already been victimized, with the usernames and passwords available on lists.

]]><![CDATA[China's Analytical Tool TONGJI.LA Stops Service]]>It is said on 29 September 2009 that TONGJI.LA, one of China's analytical tool, stopped services starting from today. The reason for this is because of the divergence among the team.

]]><![CDATA[China Yahoo Reconfirms Plans To Shut Blog Service]]>Following the announcement of the closure of its social networking service Yahoo Guanxi a few days ago, China Yahoo has now announced on its official forum that it will shut its space service on October 30, 2009.

]]><![CDATA[Dr. Kai-Fu Lee Leaves Google, Starts Innovation Works]]>Supported by Industry Giants, Plans $115 Million Investment to Enable Chinese Entrepreneurs to Develop Next Wave of High-Tech Companies in China BEIJING--(Business Wire)--Innovation Works, a business creation platform focused on establishing the next wave of Chinese high-technology companies founded by Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, launches today. This announcement follows news of Dr. Lee`s resignation as Google Vice President and President of Google Greater China and introduces a new business paradigm into the Chinese start-up environment.

]]><![CDATA[Alibaba Merges Koubei.com Into Taobao.com]]>Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba.com has announced that based on its "Big Taobao" strategy, the group will merge its lifestyle website Yahoo Koubei into its Internet shopping platform Taobao.com.

]]><![CDATA[TOMATOLEI.COM becomes a navigation website]]>TOMATOLEI.COM, the website offering downloads of pirate Windows XP Tomato Edition, was changed into a navigation website. On the top of the website, there is a word saying: "TOMATOLEI will try to keep moving forward on the right way and TOMATOLEI needs your support."

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