Loretta Chao, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 8, 2011 at 5:00 pm PT
State media outlets People’s Daily, Xinhua and China Central Television are betting on microblogging, search engines and other Internet products for future growth. Some say their deep pockets may help them become legitimate competitors in China’s Internet sector—but until then, there will be plenty of skeptics to win over.
Owen Fletcher, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 18, 2011 at 12:26 pm PT
E-Commerce China Dangdang Chief Executive Guoqing Li lost his temper Sunday on China’s biggest Twitter-like microblogging service, Sina Weibo, accusing Morgan Stanley of undervaluing his company’s initial public offering and exchanging outrageously off-color insults with a user who claimed to work for the financial services firm.
Owen Fletcher, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 31, 2010 at 8:52 am PT
Protective cases purportedly made for a new version of the iPad, posted for sale on Chinese e-commerce site Alibaba.com, have fueled some of the latest speculation about the rumored sequel to Apple’s red-hot tablet computer. In fact, they drew enough attention that someone with pull appears to have objected to the listings.
Loretta Chao and Yoli Zhang, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 24, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg made another stop Thursday on his “vacation” tour of Chinese Internet companies, visiting the headquarters of Alibaba Group. Photos posted on the web showed the 26-year-old chatting with executives at the Chinese e-commerce giant, including Chairman Jack Ma.
Loretta Chao, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 24, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
China’s government has begun testing a policy allow mobile subscribers to switch carriers without changing their phone numbers in two locations, the eastern coastal metropolis of Tianjin and the southern island province of Hainan–potentially bringing the long-anticipated move toward full number portability closer to reality and adding to mounting competition for telecommunications giant China Mobile.
Owen Fletcher, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 12, 2010 at 11:59 am PT
China Unicom has launched a long-expected application store for users to download apps like games and Internet browsers to their mobile devices, making it the latest mobile carrier looking to reproduce the success of Apple’s App Store.
Owen Fletcher, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 10, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
China’s ZTE Corp., best known as a telecommunications equipment maker but also a growing vendor of mobile phones, estimates it will ship 300,000 units of a new Android smartphone to Europe this year as sales launch in France this month, a ZTE spokeswoman said late Monday.
Loretta Chao, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 9, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
The public battle between Chinese Internet giant Tencent and antivirus software company Qihoo 360, referred to by some as “small gang” (Qihoo 360) vs. “mafia” (Tencent), has led to a spike in new users for other firms, including one of Tencent’s chief rivals, Microsoft.
James T. Areddy, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 30, 2010 at 9:58 am PT
The tubular glass entranceway to Shanghai’s new Apple Inc. shop may be its most high-tech feature, considering the iPad hasn’t officially arrived in China.
Twelve rounded glass panels stand over 12.5 meters (41 feet) to form the cylindrical dome. Inside, the computer maker’s distinctive bitten-apple logo is suspended above a glass stairway that corkscrews into the underground retail space
Miguel Gonzalez Jr., Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 13, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
NextMedia Animation’s computerized reenactment of jetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater’s notorious last day on the job has been a hit, but it’s no accident that the studio has broadened the scope of its computer-animated dramatizations of news events beyond the Hong Kong and Taiwan region that it calls home.
