It is still proving out that selling clothes over the Internet in China is viable.
The internet in China, in fact, punctures a few 20th century ways of thinking.
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The Internet in China doesn't offer much today for the more conservative life-style of the common folk.
To the extent that Western firms have seized on the growth of the internet in China, it has often been as a marketing tool.
To that end, one of my favorite profiles over the years has always been of that of Jack Ma more than a decade ago when he was an unknown on the global stage, talking up the potential of the Internet in China.
The best time to invest in private Internet companies in China will be after the next crash when no credit or outside capital will be available.
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In the 10 years that the outgoing leaders have been in power, the number of internet users in China has grown tenfold to more than 500 million.
Asked about the difficulty U.S. Internet companies have had in China, Ma notes that he sees thousands of Internet companies dying every month in China.
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One big change, says Doug Paal, a senior China adviser to previous American presidents and now at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington, DC, is that the growth of the internet generation in China nowadays requires its government to heed the strong nationalist sentiment of its own people.
Frequent meetings and conferences are held in Beijing and Shanghai, attended by some of the top thought leaders and Internet influencers in China.
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Internet usage in China soared after SARS, which boosted the appeal of virtual encounters and e-commerce.
There are clinics for the treatment of Internet addiction in China and in Korea.
That's the earliest e-commerce, and that's probably the first internet company in China.
Internet security has become a major concern for Internet users in China as the scale and nature of security threats continues to evolve.
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The Shenzhen-based company also has a joint venture with Groupon called GoaPeng that appears destined to become another example of a U.S. Internet failure in China.
Internet sales in China are still limited, making up around two percent of total retail sales in the country, according to a 2010 Chinese consumer study from McKinsey.
Earlier this month, RIM said it was preparing to launch an applications store and consumer Internet services in China as part of its push into the world's top mobile market.
Without VIE there would no Internet industry in China.
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His portfolio has included several successes, notably Skype, and now he has interests in a handful of internet start-ups in China.
Baidu hangs in with a 75 percent share of internet traffic and advertising in China.
Much about the internet, both in China and globally, has changed in the intervening decade.
What helps, of course, is that the big American Internet brands have crashed in China.
Similar to Apple TV, it offers games, videos and other Internet-streamed entertainment in China.
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They build AOL into their computers, so we can extend access to the internet to more people in China and in Asia.
They found themselves talking about which U.S. Internet models might work in China and struck upon travel, even though both were engineers.
He discovered it was sending stolen data to an Internet user in Tianjin, China's third-largest city and the second-biggest hub for manufacturing, particularly electronics.
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