It is still proving out that selling clothes over the Internet in China is viable.
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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 Street continues to back away from shares of Baidu, the leading player in the China Internet search market, out of concern that the company is losing market share to new entrant Qihoo 360.
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Much about the internet, both in China and globally, has changed in the intervening decade.
That's the earliest e-commerce, and that's probably the first internet company in China.
The9, established in 1999 as one of the leading game developers and operators in China, has stepped into the mobile internet field and now working with major telecom carriers and application distribution channels in China with high speed growth.
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There are clinics for the treatment of Internet addiction in China and in Korea.
They build AOL into their computers, so we can extend access to the internet to more people in China and in Asia.
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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Though it is unclear whether the government will take any actions in response to the report, China has in the past taken measures to block foreign Internet companies.
Among other factors, Baidu shares have been under pressure from growing concerns about loss of market share to Qihoo 360, the leading Web browser provider in China, which recently entered the Internet search market.
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The two magic words in the stock market have been China and Internet.
It was one of the earliest entrants in the Chinese internet market and has enjoyed tremendous success as China has gone on to become the world's biggest internet market with more than 500 million users.
So they went on to create enormous advances, efficiencies and value in the internet, software and China to name a few.
In other international news, Xinhua and China Daily highlight calls by Chinese and US officials and experts for more cyber-security co-operation and less "blame or accusations without evidence" of state-sponsored hacker attacks, during the US-China Internet Industry Forum in Beijing.
Economies as large as the United States and China have a tremendous shared stake in ensuring that the Internet remains open, interoperable, secure, reliable, and stable.
Things will get very interesting on the Internet backbone when Apple really rolls out 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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Nearly half of China's 513 million netizens used weibo sites - Twitter equivalents - last year compared to 63 million in 2010, the China Internet Network Information Center report said.
Other than the Internet and social media, youth growing up in China have few other social spaces to call their own.
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According to official figures, there are now more than 250, 000 personal computers in China with connections to the Internet, and 1, 000 service-providers.
Douglas Leone of Sequoia Capital, a big venture-capital firm, reckons that in emerging markets like China around 50% of start-ups backed by foreign venture capitalists in the internet and mobile sectors are copycats, and in markets like Brazil it is closer to 70%.
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Outright revenues from the internet may become even harder to capture in years to come as China takes further steps to control access.
Since joining Toyota in 1984, Toyoda has worked in NUMMI, headed the China operations and introduced Internet services at Toyota, when such projects were still relatively rare, because of his personal interest in online technology.
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