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Danwei is pointing out that we have had a record month of Jewish-Chinese coverage in the western media. Since I am slowly but surely immersing more and more into China, and as an observant Jew, I find Chinese-Jewish relations very faschinating. Here is a great video from the Sexy Beijing, about the opening of the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 12, 2007
Kaiser reports that the "Chinese Joost" UUSee, just received $23.5 in VC funding from DFJ's Growth Fund, Highland Capital Partners and Steamboat Ventures.... I agree with Kaiser's prediction that it is only a matter of 3G time until we will see mobile P2P services popping up all over China.
Continue reading...Sunday, March 11, 2007
After a very good board meeting with Maxthon, I paid a visit to HiPiHi - Chinas answer to Second Life. This came about after I had written a short post on them earlier and got an invitation to swing by their office. Kaiser Kuo (Ogilvy) and Xinhua Liu (early investor in HipiHi & Technology Director at [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 1, 2007
It will be great to meet Bill Tai (CRV), David Zhang, Yuzhu (WI Harper), Jeff and Carol (Maxthon) again - just hope it will not be as cold as the last time.. If you want to meet up in Beijing please let me know, schedule is quite tight - but long is the night..;) Who knows, maybe I even will have time to shoot some cool Beijing street scenes?
Continue reading...Sunday, February 25, 2007
What does navigation-based blogging, Secondlife-like gaming and mobile phones in common? Well, this is the platform run by Japan based mobile marketing firm Naviblog now looking to enter the Chinese mobile space. China Business Cast has an interesting interview with Naviblog CEO Mandali Khalesi on saying that mobile marketing will drive the adoption of the [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 25, 2007
Piper Jaffray just published a fat report called "The User Revolution: The New Advertising Ecosystem and The Rise of the Internet as a Mass Medium". Here are some of its key findings: We expect global online advertising revenue to reach $81.1 billion by 2011, representing a 21% CAGR (2006-2011). The User Revolution. The advertising world is going [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 3, 2007
This is quite amusing. It seems that the interview I gave to ReadWriteWeb a few days ago have stirred up quite some emotions. Believe it or not, Linux Journal calls Maxthon The Real Firefox-Killer... For the real challenger comes not from Microsoft directly; instead, it’s from a new browser that uses IE’s rendering engine, Trident, but [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Today I had the pleasure to have lunch with Tangos (aka Chen Huan), the editor of the Chinese “Techcrunch” (but without the commercial tags) China Web 2.0 Review in Beijing. Chen is a product manager at the Chinese Web 2.0 search engine/portal Qihoo (that just raised $25M from US investors) at day and blogger [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 12, 2006
I had a couple of very good days in Beijing with the Maxthon team, some partner meetings and night out. Hong Kong will be my next destination where I will hook up with some entreprenuers and an active Maxthon plug-in developer hope to be able to Vlog that time permitting. Abover is a picture of two happy [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 7, 2006
Piper Jaffray summed up China’s 2005 Mobile Market Share, revealing these takeaways: SMS still remains a major revenue contributor KongZhong, Hurray! and Tom Online dominate WAP and are best positioned for the transition to 3G KongZhong and Tom Online are the most diversified players Subscribe to Safa’s excellent China reports here & here.
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