China social media sharing has been experiencing strong growth since Jan 2012. Daily average sharing have increased by 60% in H1 2012. In this report, we will take a closer insight of China social media sharing from 3 perspectives: website sharing analysis, communication platform analysis and user analysis. PART1 Website Sharing Analysis 71% of sharing […]
Bing Targeting 5% High Value English Search Queries in China
Shen Xiangyang, Microsoft’s Senior Vice President, Director of Search Engine, disclosed Bing Search’s strategy in China recently. He said, in order to acquire the 5% high value English search queries, Bing will implement differential competitive strategy in the short run. The core is to provide users with better English search services, including translation and online […]
Google Trying To Impede Alibaba’s Progress on Mobile
Recently, Aliyun and Acer cancelled the launch event for the latest smartphone. It is said that because of the obstruction from Google, the launch event had come to a temporary cancelation. Last Tuesday, Acer made an announcement that they were going to launch a new smartphone A800 with Aliyun mobile OS. Developed by Alibaba Group, […]
9 Chinese Banks In Total Have Almost 300 Million Personal Online Banking Users
According to statistics by China’s Electronic Bank, the total number of personal online banking users reached approximately 300 million in the first half of 2012. In the light of the interim statements, the performance of several players are quite noticeable. Here are some data for H1 2012: Agriculture Bank of China has 77.14 million personal […]
China B2B Total Revenue Up 11.3% in Q2 2012
According to the quarterly market monitor report for Q2 2012 by Enfodesk, China B2B operation revenue was 3.39 billion (USD 536 million). The quarter on quarter growth was 11.3% and the year-on-year growth was 13%. Chinese macro-economy had nice growth in Q2 and the import and export trade brought great chances to B2B e-commerce. Based […]
China’s Emerging Airlines Are Catching Eyes of the Industry
According to the estimation by BCG group, the annual passenger flows from Europe to the Middle East and Asia will surge to 130 million in 2020, indicating a big chance for global airline industry. On this occasion, China’s emerging Europe-to-Asia airlines is catching the eyes of the whole industry. What advantages exited for China airlines? […]
Part-time Sellers Account For 70% Of China Online Shops
Beijing University and Alibaba Research Center jointly issued a report on “Those started online shops”. The report demonstrates that large number of part-time sellers swarm into the main forces of online selling, which accounts for 70% of the whole online retailers. They are white-collars, students, unemployed youths, housewives, farmers and even retired workers among. Except […]
Popular Mobile Applications Usage Rate in China
Mobile IM holds the safe lead among all mobile applications with the usage rate of 86.7%. The usage rates of mobile payment and flight ticket booking are much lower compared with others. But with the enhancement of mobile security, we cannot ignore their potentials to experience growth in the near future. The growth of other […]
Sina Released New Weibo Ad Format with Guaranteed 100% Reach
Recently, a new form of ad is formally launched on Sina Weibo. This social ads enable weibo posts to reach ALL followers rather than being buried; this is like Facebook Promote. The promoted posts will appear as the first on users’ weibo home page after logging in. The post will sink as more posts get […]
Sina Weibo New Design Leaked
Sina Weibo is secretly developing a new design in which posting will have visibility settings and individual users’ Weibo page more design options. In the new design which will likely be released in late September, users can publish posts which only certain groups of friends can see and comment (can’t re-post though). The new design […]