Baidu Mall, a new e-commerce platform integrating Baidu’s online and offline resources, is launching soon.
China Outbound Travelers Spent Close to $500B Overseas in 2014
According to China Confidential, a research institute of Financial Times, the total expenditure of China outbound travelers reached RMB140 billion (US$498 billion) in 2014. In other words, today’s Chinese outbound tourists’ spending is more than the total household consumption expenditure in some countries, such as Indonesia ($436 billion) and Turkey ($442 billion).
China 4G Mobile Users Reached 160 Million in Q1 2015
As of the end of March this year, the total number of China’s mobile phone users reached 1.29 billion, an increase of 3.6%, including 160 million 4G user in the first quarter of 2015.
Huawei Won Smartphone War in China in March 2015
The top three smartphone vendors in March 2015 are Huawei (13.57%), Apple (12.37%) and Samsung (10.15%) according to GfK research.
Opportunities & Challenges in China Programmatic Buying Market
2014 is a booming year for programmatic buying in China advertising market. Further, programmatic buying is rebuilding digital advertising market as well as influencing China advertisers. With mobile internet’s rapid development, there are also some challenges for mobile advertising.
Baidu Duwear: A Smart Watch OS
Baidu launched a smart watch OS based on Android called Duwear, providing UI, interactivity and various applications.
China, the Largest Outbound Tourism Market in 3 Consecutive years
Since 2012, China had been the largest outbound tourism market in the world. In 2014, the total number of outbound travelers increased from 98 million to 109 million. And the China travelers’ consumption increased by 17% in former 3 quarters in 2014.
China Internet User Insights in Tier-2 & 3 Cities
Tencent conducted a survey which compared China tier-1 cities with tier-2 & 3 cities in online reservation service, taxi service, online travel, online education, online entertainment service, internet finance as well as online medical service in 2014. The survey indicates the differences between different consumer habits in tier-1 and tier-2 & 3 cities in China […]
China Mobile App Advertising Market in 2014
In 2014, the total transaction value of China mobile advertising market (mobile search, app ad and mobile video ad involved) was RMB29.69 billion (US$4.84 billion) according to data of iResearch.
WeChat Wi-Fi to Step on A New Stage in China
WeChat Wi-Fi is running its last round in China. Early in March 2015, WeChat released WeChat Wi-Fi’s application entry. WeChat insiders said that WeChat Wi-Fi had been tested 2 versions before its entry’s release. Now, merchants can register for WeChat Wi-Fi within 5 minutes; further, WeChat users can scan to log in WeChat Wi-Fi without […]
China Mobile Payment Market Insights in 2014
In 2014, total transaction value of China mobile payment market exceeded RMB599.247 billion(US$97.628 billion) with an increase of 391.3% from last year according to data of iResearch.
7 China App Publishers on App Annie’s Top 52 List 2014
Recently, the Top 52 app publishers (by revenue) list in 2014 was released by App Annie (a company which do research on mobile app market).On the list, there are 7 China app companies.
Ctrip Mobile App Downloads Reached Nearly 600M in 2014
Ctrip net revenues were RMB1.9 billion (US$308 million) for Q4 2014, up 33% YoY. Net revenues in 2014 were RMB7.3 billion (US$1.2 billion) in 2014, up 36%.
Mobile Represented Almost Half of Qunar’s Revenue in Q4 2014
Qunar total revenues for the fourth quarter of 2014 were RMB519.8 million (US$83.8 million), an increase of 107.1% year-on-year. Mobile revenues were RMB257.5 million (US$41.5 million), an increase of 400.7% year-on-year, representing 49.5% of total and 52.3% of pay-for-performance (“P4P”) revenues, compared to 20.5% and 22.6%, respectively, in the corresponding period of 2013.
Video: Jack Ma’s Speech at CeBIT 2015
The annual IT & Digital Business expo CeBIT 2015 takes place from March 16-20 in Hannover Messe. Jack Ma, Executive Chairman of the Alibaba Group, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, open CeBIT 2015 on Sunday, March 15.