Quick Take: Bing will now service real time tweets of individual in search results. Currently only the top “thousands” of twitter personalities will be indexed and covered.
Bing Blog: bringing a bit of twitter to bing
Quick Take: Yahoo is planning to shut Maven networks, which is its online advertising engine, acquired for $160 million last year. According to sources they are no longer servicing customers, and have fired most of employees in the unit. This seems to be part of Carol Bartz strategy to get rid of poorly performing units, [...]
Quick Take: In the midst of difficult times, travel sites in China have come together in an alliance. The alliance objectives is to promote domestic tourism and other synergies.
China Tech news: Chinese Internet Travel Media Form Alliance
Quick Take: As per sources, Bing has tied up with home appliances company Suning, to provide search based solutions for suning businesses. Suning B2C appliances business will be also promoted on search marketing in Baidu.
Quick Take: As per reports, Baidu, will have a new improved web stats service by mid-August. The new service is result of one year of R & D and supposed to improve on search trends on Baidu.
Proactive investors: Baidu to launch improved web statistics service
Quick Take: China has block twitter, and other similar sites, in riots affected place, Urumqi, to censor news. There are reports that search egnines, Chinese video publishing sites and youtube are also facing problems.
BBC: China clampdown on tech in Urumqi; NYT: In Latest Upheaval, China Applies New Strategies to Control Flow of Information
Quick Take: Chinese internet users have posted information and videos on various internet sites, of riots in north-west China, AFP reports. AFP also reports, that Chinese government tried to censor news on internet in terms of blogs and videos removed.
AFP Story: Savvy Internet users defy China’s censors on riot
Quick Take: As per various reports, Google is to increase its revenues Q-on-Q in China, to the tune of 25% by some estimates. This news comes amid all the concerns Chinese Government has shown towards Google to “be spreading pornography”.
Brand Republic: Google set to boost ad revenue by 25 per cent in China
Quick Take: PC makers in China like Acer, have offer “Green Dam” as part of software package in new PCs. The “Green Dam” is not yet mandatory in China, still it will be available in new PCs and can be easily removed by running a patch, this is upon request of Chinese government.
AFP: PC makers offer [...]
Quick Take: Shenzhen Fortune Venture Capital has announced 100 million Chinese Yuan funding in Beijing-based business-to-business e-commerce site 315.com.cn. The site is in online trading, for B2B segment, dealing in commodities.
China Tech News: Fortune VC Invests CNY100 Million In 315.com.cn
