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Alibaba, Tencent and Walled Gardens: History Repeats Itself

May 19, 2015 By Brian Viard

In a bid to prevent users from venturing out of their proprietary environment, Alibaba and Tencent are aggressively adopting a walled garden strategy.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Digital Economy, ExpertSpeak, Invisible Hand Revealed, Strategy, Technology Tagged With: Alibaba, Alipay, Brian Viard, Internet, Mobile, Slider, Telecommunications, Tencent, WeChat

Don Tapscott on Digital Disruption

April 13, 2015 By Neelima Mahajan

The Digital Economy warrants a fundamentally new social contract, says Don Tapscott, a leading expert on business and technology issues

Filed Under: All Articles, Conversations, Digital Economy, ExpertSpeak, Know China, Society, Technology, The Thinker Interview Tagged With: Amazon, Business Models, crowdsourcing, Digital Economy, Google, Internet, Slider

Innovating in the Networked Organization

March 25, 2015 By Bennett Voyles

The networked organization has changed how business innovates—but will the new system last?

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Digital Economy, Innovation, Technology Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Communication, Innovation, Internet, Labor, Network, Networked Company, Patents, Slider

The Networked Company: Q&A with Sudhanshu Palsule

March 3, 2015 By Bennett Voyles

Sudhanshu Palsule on what it means to be a leader in a world without distance or hierarchy

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Conversations, Employment, Know China, Management, Q&A Tagged With: Hierarchy, Internet, Internet Companies, Leadership, Management, Networked Company, Slider

Music in China: The Beat Goes Online

May 19, 2014 By Greg Isaacson

The rise of indie music in China, and how China’s musical talent navigates piracy and red tape. It’s around 11:00pm on Friday night at Yuyintang, one of Shanghai’s main live music scenes, and an appreciative crowd of a few dozen Chinese and for­eigners cheer as Duck Fight Goose fin­ishes its last act, a compelling blend […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Culture, Intellectual Property, Know China, Society Tagged With: Censorship, Chinese art market, Chinese Artists, Intellectual Property, Internet, Music Industry, Slider

China Roundup: Alibaba’s Youku Tudou Stake and China, the World’s Largest Economy?

May 4, 2014 By Neelima Mahajan

The week that was: China may trump the US to become the world’s largest economy soon; the Chinese P2P lending sector to get new regulations; Xiaomi shells out a cool $3.6 million for a two-word domain name. China to be the World’s Largest Economy Soon For the last decade pundits have been prophesizing that China is […]

Filed Under: All Articles, China Round-up, Chinese Economy, Connections, Digital Economy, Emerging Economies, Finance, Internet Finance, Know China, Policy and Law, Stock Exchange Tagged With: 360buy, Alibaba, Baidu, China Regulation, Chinese Economy, Economic Reform, Internet, Jingdong, P2P, Shadow Banking, Slider, Tudou, Xiaomi, Yihaodian, Youku

Cyber vulnerability: Is a digital disaster the next big thing?

April 14, 2014 By Bennett Voyles

The Heartbleed internet security bug has exposed just how vulnerable the world is to a digital disaster. Networked computers have created trillions of dollars in new economic power, but the growing alarm over the Heartbleed internet security bug suggests that humanity may have a new kind of disaster to worry about: a global IT crash. […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Technology Tagged With: Cyber Security, Heartbleed, Internet, IT, Slider, Technology

Online Collaboration: Settling the Cyber-Frontier

March 3, 2014 By Bennett Voyles

How virtual organizations are changing the social operating system. Prosecutions for online thievery and piracy may grab headlines, but there is another side to the civilizing of the cyber-frontier that may be more significant in the long run–the new systems of organization and self-governance that are enabling people to work together on the internet and […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Entrepreneurship, Technology Tagged With: GE, Intellectual Property, Internet, Online Privacy, Slider

CHINA ROUND-UP: Workforce Shrinks Again; Lenovo Buys IBM Server; And Big Four Auditors Barred

January 24, 2014 By Major Tian

The week that was: China workforce declines two years in a row; trust product distributed by ICBC faces default;  Lenovo strikes China’s biggest tech deal by buying an IBM branch; and the Big Four’s China affiliates are barred from US businesses. Lenovo buys another piece of IBM Nine years after the iconic brand of ThinkPad changed […]

Filed Under: All Articles, China Round-up, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Finance, Know China, Mergers and Acquisitions, Society, Stock Exchange, Technology, Winning in China Tagged With: Alibaba.com, Hotel, IBM, Internet, IPOs, JD.com, labor market, Lenovo, SEC, Slider

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

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