John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 12 at 8:26 pm PT
A rowdy, egg-throwing crowd disrupts the debut of the iPhone 4S in mainland China.
Loretta Chao, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Social on September 9, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
Viadeo, a professional networking site operator aiming to compete with LinkedIn by dominating non-English speaking markets, is throwing its weight behind Chinese subsidiary Tianji despite regulatory challenges.
John Paczkowski in News on March 30, 2011 at 4:25 pm PT
If Google wants to continue offering its mapping service in China, it best step lively. The licensing deadline is tomorrow, and as of Tuesday, China’s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping hadn’t received an application from the company, a requirement under regulations announced last May.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 30, 2010 at 7:00 am PT
The year just ending started with an attack on Google by China and ended with the WikiLeaks affair.
In the meantime, the Stuxnet worm showed the way toward a world where skilled hackers can cause serious real-world damage.
Scared yet?
Loretta Chao, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 22, 2010 at 12:10 pm PT
Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg met with some of China’s top technology executives on a visit to Beijing this week that was billed as a vacation, fueling speculation about the social-networking site’s ambitions to enter a market where it is blocked by censors.
Jonathan Shieber, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 8, 2010 at 1:19 pm PT
Chinese venture capitalists are buying into the country’s “flash sales” membership-based retail websites, as online shoppers in the country get a taste of steep discounts on the gilded life through offerings from retailers like newly funded start-up Vipshop.
Kara Swisher in News on November 2, 2010 at 6:00 am PT
Sonos, maker of the well-known wireless multi-room music system for the home, announced at a press conference in Beijing, China, today that it will soon be selling its products in the important Asian market.
The move by the Santa Barbara, Calif., consumer electronics company is a big expansion, putting its players in the hands of a growing base of more affluent Chinese customers by later this month.
Loretta Chao, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 30, 2010 at 9:32 am PT
Apple customers who were hoping the company’s recently expanded presence in China would mean easier access to officially sold iPhone 4s have been disappointed, but a run on the devices has been kind to at least one group: gadget scalpers.
John Paczkowski in News on September 27, 2010 at 3:00 am PT
The iPhone 4 is proving significantly more popular in China than its predecessor. Early demand for the device has already exceeded initial supply, with China Unicom reportedly struggling to fill the more than 200,000 preorders it has received since September 17.
Kara Swisher in News on September 7, 2010 at 8:10 am PT
Last Friday, former Google China head Kai-Fu Lee dialed up BoomTown from that country for a chit-chat interview about his life since leaving the search giant one year ago and plunging into the world of incubation, recruiting and early-stage funding for start-ups there.
Being president of Google’s China operations is far different from being CEO of Innovation Works, which just celebrated its first anniversary and, of course, is trying to create the next Google.
