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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
In 2008, the IOC disgracefully agreed to let China block access to Internet sites in the Beijing games.
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.
Whereas there are some governments in the world which dare not allow their people to use Internet and mobile phones, China now has the largest mobile phone population and Internet population in the world.
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.
What helps, of course, is that the big American Internet brands have crashed in China.
It cites the internet and some poorly regulated newspapers in China as conduits for dangerous views.
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.
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