Posts Tagged with ‘china’

If there is one country that invariably fascinates me in terms of how internet operates over there, it is China. At least to me it is totally amazing how internet works in that huge crowded country with people mostly immune to international invaders and choosing their own internet players like they choose Baidu over Google. [...]

When you live in Russia everything about IT outsourcing is something you can not ignore as many people around you earn their money off IT services rendered to customers from abroad. And of course it is even more so for people in India and even in China: looking to cut development costs many companies turn [...]

So we should be proud of ourselves as everyone reading this online (and you hardly have other options to read it, to tell you the truth) should be a little proud about being a part of something truly massive and large-scale as the internet measurement firm comScore reports that the internet audience has reached 1 [...]

China is well-known for its strict approach to dealing with websites, blocking everything that the country’s government does not consider to be appropriate for the eyes of its citizens and demanding websites to comply if they want to remain in the huge Chinese internet market. But today’s news is even more extravagant than usually as [...]

Every now and then we hear about yet another site banned in China for covering the world events in a way that is not deemed as an acceptable one by the Chinese government. And today the Chinese foreign ministry has even stated publicly that they believe their country is free to ban whatever sites they [...]

I don’t live in the US myself only coming to California for business when needed. When you do the business completely online it is not even all that frequently - unless there is some very important event to attend. But living here in Russia I have experienced (and am experiencing) quite a number of limitations [...]

Today at the Web2Asia conference in Guangzhou launch of a very promising new project is announced. The project is BloggerInsight and it is intended to facilitate entering Chinese market for international companies utilizing the power and intelligence Chinese bloggers possess. What is important, bloggers in the country are offered an interesting new opportunity to monetize [...]

The first-ever pan-Asian internet entrepreneur conference Open Web Asia took place on October 14 in Seoul, Korea. It was very well-attended with people from many countries, such as Taiwan, China, Japan, Singapore, and Korea. There were many surprises, from the high standard of dress in the audience, many suits and ties and almost no jeans [...]

Over this week we've been listening to the discussions about international media demanding that the Chinese government rethinks its position on blocking a number of websites that were (and most certainly still are) considered by the government as hazardous to their citizens and their states of mind. What we see now is that [...]