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		<title>Baidu&#8217;s Adventure in Japan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most discussed topic during my dissertation trip in China was Baidu’s decision to enter the Japanese search engine market in January 2008. It was the first thing that came to mind of just about everyone I spoke with on the topic of my study. Following a nearly year long study of Japanese-language search [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google And Tencent Partnership On Search Engine Will End Soon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For over 1.5 years, Tencent&#8217;s search engine Soso has been powered by Google, i.e. Soso has been using Google&#8217;s search engine technology to provide results to to its users. &#8216;This partnership will end soon and Soso will be re-launched and powered by Tencent&#8217;s own search engine&#8217;, an insider told me when I was in Guangzhou [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Designer and Developer Frontend Technology Forum 08</title>
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Regarded as THE forum for web and frontend developers, D2 will be held on the 29th November in Shanghai. Being a forum by developers for developers, the forum is being organized in turns. TaoBao was the founding organization, Yahoo China took the honor the second time and Tudou will be organizing this time.
Coordinator Blank (怿飞) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genoom, Huge Family Tree Extending to China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you run a family-centric site, I bet you can not forget China, although none of those family-centric sites has rocked Chinese market yet. We got in touch with Bob Samii, Marketing Director of Genoom.com which is reported as the 3rd largest social networking site (with 3.5millions user profiles) focusing on connecting families.
Genoom is created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Herring Top 100 Asia Awards Finalists Announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Red Herring 100&#8243; awards have been open and awarded to the top 100 private technology companies based upon technology innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition and financial health for over 10 years. Red Herring Asia (4th Edition) which will be held in Hong Kong, JW Marriott Hotel, December 2-3, 2008, has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Video Sharing Industry will Reshuffle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Liu Yan, the CEO of video web site &#8220;6 Room&#8221; (6.cn) said 6 Room plans to lay off employees from 200 to 60, but don&#8217;t like the rumors of only 10.
At the same time, Liu Yan said 6 Rooms will not layoff before the end of this year. On the contrary, the company will hire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Adds New Technology to Search PDF Files</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Searching PDF files might be a small feature added to Google search engine, and it will not become a huge impact on recent search engine markets. The reason we decided to publish this news here is that, we are so crazy with SNS these days, and probably we should calm down and think about some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GoPlanit, Your Travel Planning Tool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[GoPlanit's public launch was announced by CEO Steve Chen while he's presenting on stage as a finalist during this year's TechCrunch 50 Conference. Travel planning can be very frustrating and time-consuming. GoPlanit helps simplifying this - saving the time, money, and aggravation! Our guest editor Jonathan Tse got in touch with its COO Jimmy Ku, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch Out! ShanDa Is To Enter SNS Market From Internet Bar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are so many SNS running in China, but still the opportunities are everywhere. We thought no one can possibly steal users from QQ, but 51.com did it; Xiaonei has loads of cash in pocket but Kaixin001.com suddenly became a real headache and is growing super fast beyond anyone&#8217;s expectation; If you believe the &#8216;wired&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Coins, Chinese Open Platforms Trying Monetization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to make the money out of the Open Platform? This is probably one of the toughest questions in the global industry and there is no perfect answer to it so far. In the fast-growing Chinese web, millions of users are now willing to spend money on virtual goods, thanks to QQ and other online [...]]]></description>
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