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China Roundup: Taxi App Didi Dache Gets a $700 million Warchest

December 11, 2014 By Major Tian

This week, taxi app Didi Dache secured funding of more than $700 million, easily the biggest private investment in China’s mobile internet sector; LeTV announced an audacious plan to get into Tesla’s territory; and China’s import and export numbers slowed.

Filed Under: All Articles, China Round-up, Digital Economy, Finance, Know China, Policy and Law, Technology Tagged With: Alibaba, Alipay, Apps, Car Rental, Didi Dache, Investment, IPOs, Slider, Technology, Tencent, Uber

China Roundup: LinkedIn Checks into China; Weibo to List on the NASDAQ; and the Renminbi Slides Further

February 28, 2014 By Major Tian

  The week that was: LinkedIn enters China with an innovative model; Sina Weibo plans US listing; the Chinese renminbi depreciates; and banks fight back against internet finance channels.  LinkedIn Connects with China Six months ago people were curious why LinkedIn isn’t blocked in China, like Twitter, Facebook and many other networking sites are. Well, […]

Filed Under: All Articles, China Round-up, Chinese Economy, Connections, Economy, Finance, Know China, Stock Exchange, Technology Tagged With: Alibaba, Apps, China, Facebook, ICBC, Internet FInancing, IPOs, LinkedIn, PBOC, RMB, Sina, Sina Weibo, Slider, Taxis, Tencent, Twitter, WeChat

Upwardly Mobile: Chinese Mobile Technology Start-ups face an Uphill Battle

August 12, 2013 By Matthew Fulco

Stratups, Start Ups, Mobile Technology, Apps, Mobile Apps

Swarms of start-ups in mobile technology are feeling the effects of hyper-competition, illusive investment and fickle consumers. Fu Cong was a stubborn smartphone convert. For years, the 28-year-old Shanghainese communications consultant carried a bare-bones Philips mobile that he favored for its simplicity and immense battery power—it could easily go 72 hours without being charged. Fu […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Technology Tagged With: Apps, Mobile Apps, Slider, Start-ups

Digital Marketing and China’s Expanding Internet: Location-Based Services and the Mobile Internet

June 6, 2013 By CKGSB Knowledge

In January 2013, China’s internet user base reached 564 million users. China’s smartphone users have also surpassed the 300 million mark, signaling a tectonic shift towards mobile internet usage. Despite strict censorship controls on internet content in China, social media has caught on with unprecedented momentum. Established Twitter-like platforms such as Sina Weibo and Tencent […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Digital Economy, Digital Marketing Series, eCommerce, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Marketing, Supply Chain, Technology, Videos Tagged With: Alibaba, Apps, Digital Marketing, E-Commerce, eBay, Internet, Mobile Advertising, Mobile App, Mobile Internet, Sina Weibo, Slider, Taobao, WeChat, Weibo, Weixin

Digital Marketing and China’s Expanding Internet: China’s Exploding Mobile Internet

June 5, 2013 By CKGSB Knowledge

In January 2013, China’s internet user base reached 564 million users. China’s smartphone users have also surpassed the 300 million mark, signaling a tectonic shift towards mobile internet usage. Despite strict censorship controls on internet content in China, social media has caught on with unprecedented momentum. Established Twitter-like platforms such as Sina Weibo and Tencent […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Digital Economy, Digital Marketing Series, eCommerce, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Marketing, Technology, Videos Tagged With: Alibaba, Apps, Baidu, Mobile Apps, Mobile Internet, Search Advertising, Search Engines, Sina, Sina Weibo, Slider, Social Media, Tencent, WeChat, Weixin

Invisible Hand Revealed: Mobile Apps that Move Cabs

April 18, 2013 By Brian Viard

In an earlier article I discussed how the regulation of Beijing’s taxi fares had taken taxis off the road. Recently there has been a spate of mobile applications (mobile apps) to address this problem: DiDiDaChe and YaoYaoZhaoChe in Beijing, KuaiDiDaChe in Hangzhou, and DiDi and KuaiDi in Shanghai and Guangzhou. Although varying slightly, these apps […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Automobile Industry, Best Practice, Chinese Economy, Consumers, Economics, Entrepreneurship, ExpertSpeak, Innovation, Invisible Hand Revealed, Know China, Technology Tagged With: Apps, Beijing Cabs, Beijing Taxis, Beijing Traffic, Invisible Hand Revealed, Mobile Apps, Slider, Taxis

Mobile Advertising: Tailor-Made in China

April 10, 2013 By Liz Mahoney

China is the world’s largest smartphone user market and, according to Techweb, by December 2012 the percentage of users in China accessing the internet from mobile platforms reached 74.9%. At 420 million users this is a huge opportunity for advertisers to access their customers constantly and more directly than ever before via mobile advertising. But […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Consumers, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Innovation, Marketing, Technology Tagged With: App, Apple, Apps, Made in China, Mobile Ad, Mobile Advertising, Mobile Apps, Mobile Internet, Mobile Web, Slider, Taobao

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