With the Olympics just finished, we thought it appropriate to take a look at a website that is looking to capitalize on the rising profile of sports in China[/url]...

Pioco.com, the Bluetooth advertising company we interviewed a few weeks ago, is running an advertising campaign during the Olympics for Coca-Cola.

As part of the campaign, Pioco is using its network of 500 Bluetooth hotspots in Beijing and 1,200 in Shanghai to push Coca-Cola Olympic TV commercials to cell phone users...

To the detriment of our already overworked eyes, the flood of advertising-laden LCD screens into any and every public space in Chinese cities continues unabated. Every office building, bus, subway, mall, hypermarket, airport terminal, (almost every) taxi, and now even sidewalks and the sides of buildings are apparently valuable advertising real estate...

E-Xing is a Shanghai-based start-up doing Bluetooth advertising. The company was founded by a former SMG (Shanghai Media Group) advertising manager and former marketing and technical employees from Linktone...

This week we are running interviews with two Shanghai-based Bluetooth advertising companies. With new types of outdoor advertising popping up everywhere around Shanghai, many involving loud LCD screens, these companies are looking to offer something a bit different with their Bluetooth downloads to mobile devices...

Alibaba Group's online advertisement trading platform Alimama.com held a conference in Wuhan on June 28 for local small-and-medium-sized website owners to learn about how these website can make money by selling advertisement inventory via Alimama......[more]

Bloomberg reports that international and domestic music companies are urging advertisers to boycott Baidu over claims the Chinese search engine facilitates music piracy. Record labels have made little headway in their battle against Baidu, despite repeatedly taking the search engine to court over links to unauthorized music in its search results, so they now look to be trying to appeal to advertisers conscience by asking them to stop advertising on Baidu...

Granite Global Ventures, which is now called GGV Capital, has added another experienced Chinese business executive to its team in Shanghai. GGV announced on May 27 that Jia Fen Wang, who has been chairwoman of Shanghai-based Bright Dairy & Food Company since 1996, has joined GGV as a venture partner...

Twenty-eight Alibaba.com Ltd. (1688.HK) users located in earthquake ravaged Wenchuan county, Sichuan have yet to be reached via phone or Internet. Alibaba.com is seeking help from other users in order to contact them...

"Shanzhaiji"—Chinese handsets produced by unauthorized or small-scale domestic manufacturers—now account for 25 percent of China's handset market. The export market to places such as Africa is even bigger than the domestic market...

Oak Pacific Interactive has raised US$430 million for a 35 percent stake in the company from Softbank, JOHO Capital and SBI. This investment effectively values Xiaonei, Oak Pacific’s “Chinese Facebook” site, at over US$1 billion (this Caijing article says 90 percent of Oak Pacific’s slides shown to investors were about Xiaonei)...

Below are pictures of the street signs for two Chinese economy hotels; the hotels are located within a block of each other in Hangzhou.



The one on the top is for Home Inns (Nasdaq: HMIN), China’s largest economy hotel chain...

Update: Oak Pacific has raised a total of US$430 million from Softbank, JOHO Capital and SBI Group for 35 percent of the company.

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Bloomberg reports that Softbank has acquired a 14 percent stake in Chinese Internet company Oak Pacific Interactive, confirming rumors of a new investment in the company that we first saw in January...

I attended a mini-conference in Hangzhou Monday held by local company Vobile to discuss media rights management in China and Vobile’s partnerships with NBC Universal (an investor in Vobile, along with AT&T and Disney affiliate Steamboat Ventures) and CCTV International (CCTV.com)...

Alibaba Group's new B2C platform "Taobao Mall" is ready for shopping now. Its URL is http://mall.taobao.com/

When we click the old B2C channel link on Taobao's front page, it still links us to the old B2C platform...