Yahoo has posted a first quarter earnings decline of 20% to $311.6 million. In a trading update yesterday, the company added that revenue from display advertising increased by 2% to $409 million. Additionally, first quarter group revenue ...
Tags: Yahoo, Computer Products
It's 3am on the first day of 2014. Shanghai's Hengshan Road, an area popular for restaurants and nightclubs, is lit up with what seems like hundreds of bright green taxi lights, inviting the rowdy New Year's crowd to hop in. But the drivers ...
Tags: Taxi Apps, Government Regulations, taxi
Weibo Corp., the Chinese microblogging service often compared with Twitter, filed Friday for a US stock offering seeking to raise $500 million. The move will allow the popular Chinese-language social network to spin off from the Internet ...
Tags: Weibo, e-shopping, Computer
The axing this week of Yahoo's second-in-command sent a signal that reality is setting in for Silicon Valley sweetheart Marissa Mayer, who leads the struggling Internet pioneer. Hearts soared when Mayer was wooed away from rival Google in ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
China Mobile, the country's biggest services provider, on Friday begins selling Apple's iPhone to its millions of customers, ending a six-year wait in a crucial market for the US technology giant. The combination of China Mobile's ...
Tags: Mobile Firm, Apple iPhone
When I was in college, the only thing to expect on November 11 was boring matchmaking parties on campus. Now Singles Day has turned into the biggest online shopping carnival in the world. Undoubtedly, e-commerce giant Alibaba Group was the ...
Tags: Singles Day, Cinderella
Seven thousand UK small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) will benefit from a new programme to help them attract overseas customers through the internet, Business Secretary Vince Cable will announce. Vince Cable will also announce that ...
Tags: UKTI Online Campaign, Vince Cable
Xiaomi paraded its new international figurehead on stage at a press conference late last week in Beijing, signaling to the world that the company is preparing to go global. Hugo Barra, the former Google executive Xiaomi poached last ...
Tags: Xiaomi, Homegrown Strategy
Chinese search company Baidu has entered the country's smart TV market with a product powered by its video site iQiyi. The smart TV, which goes on sale Wednesday, was developed by iQiyi in partnership with Chinese electronics maker TCL. ...
Tags: Smart TV, Consumer Electronics, Baidu
After seeing its popularity decline, Yahoo's Internet portal in China has formally closed down, in a sign that e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is transitioning away from the brand. The portal went offline on Sunday. Its closure is rooted ...
Tags: Yahoo, webservice, Computer Products
Chinese online 3C retailer JD.com required all of its employees to use Yixin, a mobile instant messaging (IM) tool similar to WeChat, when they conduct business communications. It said in an internal email on August 26 that in order to ...
Tags: JD, webservice
Yahoo's profits rose by 46 percent in the second quarter, aided by nearly a dozen product launches, though sales at the company were still down. Net earnings for the quarter ended June 30 were $331 million, up from $227 million for the ...
PayPal, the online third-party payment platform of eBay, is expected to become the first foreign firm to gain a financial payment license in the Chinese mainland. John Donahoe, CEO of the US online auction and shopping service ...
Tags: Service, PayPal, Financial Payment License
After remaining quiet on the hardware front for years, Amazon.com's China business has finally brought the company's Kindle tablet and Kindle e-reader to the country. On Friday, both the Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Paperwhite went on sale ...
Tags: E-Reader, Amazon, web service
Gome.com.cn, a B2C unit of leading Chinese home appliance retailer Gome Electrical Appliances Holding Ltd. (SEHK: 093), announced signing of a strategic cooperation agreement with Tmall.com on June 6. And under terms of the agreement, ...