The Straits Times (Singapore) has an interesting article the contrast between the popular global Social Networks and the local websites in China [...]

China’s most popular Internet search engine Baidu thinks highly of the prospect of 3G wireless Internet access technology and is now in talk with China’s mobile network operators for cooperation, the company’s CEO Robin Li said recently at the Boao Forum for Asia in the southern island province of Hainan [...]

China’s dot-com economy grew nearly 63 percent year on year in the second quarter, despite increasing inflation and the effects of the Sichuan earthquake, a Shanghai-based research firm reported recently. Revenue generated by China’s online search, game and travel providers reached 13.32 billion yuan (US$1.94 billion) in the April-to-June period, iResearch said…

South Korea’s Internet searchers conducted an average of 104 searches in April/2008, nearly twice as many as Malaysians, who clocked in at 54 searches per searcher; according to Comscore’s latest findings; Asia ’s largest number of searches, not surprisingly, came from the 82 million Chinese Internet users doing 6.2 billion searches in April/2008. That is an average of 75 searches per Chinese searcher [...]

Google expects its position as the world’s most popular online search site and sales from fast-growing Asian markets, including China, to help the company weather any United States recession. ‘One of the very good sources for Google is the very rapid growth in Asia,’ said Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, which gets almost all its revenue from advertising next to search results. Historically, people tend to shift their money to the most ‘highly measured’ advertiser when there are ‘economic difficulties,’ he said recent at a briefing in Beijing [...]

It is reported that Baidu will partner with online game operators to operate online game service soon, the official news will be announced early next week. You can access the Baidu online game channel. Baidu now partners with Shanda, Joycub.cn and 51wan.com to operate six browser games. Among all six games, four of them are offered by 51wan.com, a browser online game company recently got financing from Sequoia Capital China [...]