By the end of July 2013, the number of mobile internet users in China reached 820 million, during which 3G users hit 334 million. 3G mobile users increased 100.94 million in 2013, equals to the total increased users in 2012. In total, 3G users reached 334 million, 28.2% of total mobile users. Currently fixed broadband internet […]
Top China Social Sharing Websites in July 2013
For quite a long time, Sina Weibo and Qzone took the first and second place in terms of China social media sharing ranking, and in July, Sina Weibo beat Qzone to be the top one.
Tmall Double 11 Promotion Is Coming: Are You Ready?
Tmall has promotion activities in all major holidays or festivals in China, such as Teacher’s Day, Mid Autumn Festival, National Day, Double Ninth Festival and Spring Festivals, not to mention some popular western festivals like Christmas and Thanksgiving. One of the biggest promotion activity is not from the festivals we mentioned above. Tmall created Double […]
Taobao New Mobile Visitors Surpassed 100M in H1 2013
In the first half of 2013, Taobao mobile new visitors surpassed 100 million, said Taobao on August 22, 2013. And Taobao mobile daily active visitors increased greatly, three times more than that of last year. Besides, the average time each visitor spent on Taobao mobile became longer, at least 20 mins. Taobao launched a beta […]
Top 10 Weibo Accounts Followed by University Students
Chinese Academy of Sciences and Sina Weibo jointly released a Chinese University students Weibo usage analysis in August 2013. By the end of June 2013, top 10 celebrity accounts followed by university students is shown above. He Jiong, a Chinese TV host, ranked top with 6 million university followers. Music star Lee-hom Wang and executive […]
Alibaba and Tencent Challenging Banks?
Alibaba is said to be launch its credit payment service very soon, allowing users to use up to 5000 yuan(USD 810) credit to pay for purchasing. At the mean time, the newly launched Wechat 5.0 draws a lot of attention for its payment service. Internet companies like Alibaba, Tencent, 360buy and Jingdong Mall are all […]
Tencent’s Latest Weibo Threatening Alibaba Taobao
Taobao stated on August 12 shutting down QR code access within one month. Alibaba said this was to prevent possible advertising and even fraud from some sellers, who used QR code to avoid normal transaction procedures on Taobao. About 10 days ago, Taobao just shut down the interface between its platforms and Tecent’s Wechat (or Weixin […]
Chinese App Search is Maturing While App Store Value is Decreasing
Baidu acquired 91 Wireless with USD 1.9 billion, and Qihoo 360’s Leidian search which targets mobile users launched on July 18, merely two days after Baidu’s new acquisition. Besides, Wandoujia (known as SnapPea overseas) and AppChina also laid emphasis on app search.
Big Screen: A Hot Trend in China Smartphone
Kantar Worldpanel ComTech report showed that mobile manufacturers launched a series of big screen smartphones in the past 12 months. Samsung Galaxy and Note, HTC One, Huawei, Lenovo and Xiaomi all launched 4-inch smartphone. By the end of June, more than half of smartphone users owned 3 to 3.9 inches smartphones, but 4-4.5 inches smartphones […]
China Mobile E-Commerce Reached USD 8.6 Billion in the First Half of 2013
In the first half of 2013, China mobile e-commerce reached 53.2 billion yuan(USD 8.6 billion), with a YoY increase of 44.1%. It is expected to reach 130 billion yuan (USD 21 billion) by the end of 2013. In 2012, the mobile e-commerce enterprises were 250.5 million. It is estimated to be 372.5 million in 2013. […]
China’s Top 9 E-Commerce Platforms for Home Appliance Accessories by Sales
According to EnfoDesk, by the end of June 2013, the top 9 e-commerce platforms home appliance spare parts price index is shown above.
China Mobile Shopping Users Monthly Income Analysis
According to iResearch, among China mobile shopping users, monthly income between 3001-5000 yuan (USD 497-811) was the largest group with 34.2%. Followed by the group between 1,501-3,000 (USD 243-497) with 24.4%. Generally speaking, China mobile shopping users had relatively good monthly income.
China Android Apps Download Analysis
According to DCCI research, the average number of apps installed by China Android users were 29.9. As the chart shown above, 27.76% installed 10-20 apps, followed by 20-30 with 22.02%.
What International Hotels Need to Know About Chinese Travelers
Custom doc title: Int’l Hotels’ Guide to China International Travelers Hotels.com, a global leading hotel booking websites, released its China International Travel Monitor (CITM) on August 21. This research found out that 75% hotels oversea said Chinese customers made up 5% of all room bookings. 45% hotels said the number of Chinese tourists increased last […]
Alipay to Launch Offline Payment
Alipay is going to launch offline payment partnering with Ubox to be its first partner next month. Consumers could use offline in bad internet connection areas. Ubox is a Chinese top vending machine company, which developed its own app for mobile payments at vending machines. Now it will be the first company to support Alipay’s […]