JLM Pacific Epoch sat down with Mangocity.com, China's third biggest online travel service provider behind Ctrip (Nasdaq: CTRP) and eLong (Nasdaq: LONG), East China Sales and Marketing Director Grace Yao to feel out the online travel industry...
The popularity of Yao Ming has made the US National Basketball Association one of the most popular sports leagues in China. Another rising star from the Mainland, Yi Jianlian, as well as US stars Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady and others, also have large followings in China...
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. Shanghai-based WSN.com, which offers betting information and statistics on European football matches...
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...
Beijing-based Docin.com is a document sharing site; the idea is similar to that of US-based Scribd.com, which has raised $3.7 million from Redpoint Ventures and has been dubbed "the Youtube for documents"...
GGV Capital, previously Granite Global Ventures, has been investing in China for awhile. The company's successful China investments include Alibaba.com (1688.HK) and Hurray! Holdings (Nasdaq: HRAY). GGV was also one of the first investors in Chinese video site Tudou.com...
Despite the difficulties China's third-party wireless value-added services providers have faced over the last few years, it is hard to argue with those excited about the potential for selling content to China's 575 million mobile phone subscribers[/url]...
GyPSii, a Netherlands-based mobile technology developer and service provider, offers a worldwide location-based social network. Location-based services (LBS) are just starting to develop in China; China Mobile listed location-based location services as one of the key areas of development for its wireless value added services (WVAS) department...
Online advertising in China is still mostly about banner ads on the major portals, but some companies are starting to look at doing targeted and rich media ads. Beijing-based Adsit is one of several companies looking into video ads...
Shanghai-based online video site Hupo.tv is a unit of BroadWebAsia (BWA), which listed on the US over-the-counter market under the symbol “BWBA” in April. Hupo announced a partnership with US baseball league Major League Baseball (MLB) on March 31 to develop and host MLB’s Chinese site (Major.hubo.tv)...
Ctrip has been a major name in China’s travel market for a while now, but travelers are now discovering Beijing-based vertical search site Qunar.com to find better deals and other alternatives when making travel plans...
In China, people are usually too embarrassed to refuse their friends a loan. However, it is also not always a guarantee they will get their money back according to the original agreement[/url]...
JLM field research tracks key advertising metrics from a representative sample of LCD screens operated by Focus Media (FMCN) in China's top markets, as well as several smaller, fast-growing markets.