E-Ha taps into China’s mobile culture
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE | Sunday, August 17, 2008
Like a growing number of entrepreneurs, George Chen, a 50-year-old Bay Area native, is chasing his American dream in China.
Archive for August, 2008
Web chips away at China’s grip on information
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE| Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Just days after David Wang produced a mock newscast criticizing Taiwanese officials and uploaded the clip to Tudou, a popular video sharing site in China, it disappeared. What’s surprising is not that it was censored - but that it remained online as long as it did.
China’s young people connect online
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE| Monday, August 4, 2008
For China’s well-connected youth, the Internet and cell phone have become critical communication tools. Largely under 25, this cohort of 107 million accounts for nearly half of China’s rapidly growing Internet population. They get their news from blogs and online bulletin boards. They depend on the Internet for entertainment, downloading and watching American television shows like “Prison Break” and “Ugly Betty.” Raised in the post-Cultural Revolution era, this generation has grown up as China began its economic boom, in a decidedly different environment than their parents.
Startups bring Web 2.0 to Chinese masses
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE| Sunday, August 3, 2008
From social networking to video sharing, the Chinese are fashioning their own versions of Facebook, Twitter and other popular Web sites and tweaking them to suit the tastes of the country’s exploding population of Internet users, which already surpasses that of the United States.