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China gets its ARJ up

Posted Sunday, November 30, 2008 11:20 PM by will
Imagethief was interested to see that the ARJ-21, the Chinese regional commercial jet that is currently in development, had its maiden flight on Friday . China has big ambitions to grow its capabilities in commercial aviation, and there is much riding Read More...
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Microsoft slips back down the China rabbit hole

Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 4:30 AM by will
This is one of those unusual occasions on which I feel genuine sympathy for Microsoft, which has a hard time catching a break in China. It's true there was, during the Tim Chen era, a brief flowering during which Microsoft's government relations improved Read More...
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Analyzing Skype's statement about the China keyword scandal

Posted Saturday, October 04, 2008 5:31 AM by will
Predictably for Skype, the mainstream coverage of the TOM.com keyword trapping scandal has grown, with associated reputation damage for the former naive idealists at Skype and their parent, E-Bay. (Browse examples at ZDNet , Reuters , The Register , GigaOM Read More...
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Lessons from Citizen Lab's China-Skype revelations

Posted Thursday, October 02, 2008 6:44 AM by will
If you don't know the story, you can read up on the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal (and again in the Journal here, with more focus on the backlash for Skype). In a nutshell, the story is that the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab , which Read More...
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Google, Baidu, and the great China MP3 search swamp

Posted Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:02 AM by will
The Financial Times today has an interesting article (subscription) on the few markets where global search megalith Google is not the market share leader. These include Russia, the Czech Republic, Japan, Korea, and as anyone reading this blog probably Read More...
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China's iPhone Girl: Brilliant Apple PR or lucky accident?

Posted Saturday, September 06, 2008 2:37 AM by will
If you follow either Apple, the Chinese tech scene or Chinese Internet buzz, you've probably heard of "iPhone girl". A British man reportedly discovered several photos of this young lady, apparently a quality-assurance inspector at contract manufacturer Read More...
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Olympic pavilions deconstructed

Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 5:43 AM by will
For those who are a bit weary of the whole idea of corporate pavilions, Media magazine has a witty review of the pavilions of all of the Olympic TOP sponsors. Each is helpfully compared to the Olympic athlete or icon that it most resembles. Two examples: Read More...
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Olympic complaints: Po-faced denials hitting their limits?

Posted Sunday, July 27, 2008 11:00 PM by will
From the Sydney Morning Herald : Organisers had repeatedly claimed that internet would not be censored during the Games but at the press conference a Wall Street Journal journalist produced his laptop and showed that sites such as the BBC in China and Read More...
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Jack Ma's e-mail as internal and external communication

Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 7:04 AM by will
Via the Wall Street Journal's China Journal , Paul Denlinger at China Vortex has translated an internal e-mail that Alibaba founder and CEO Jack Ma wrote and distributed to his staff recently. The e-mail promptly found its way to Sina and was duly published. Read More...
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Don't conflate censorship with astroturfing...

Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 7:47 AM by will
... says Paul Denlinger at China Vortex , reacting to Thomas Crampton's recent online video discussion with Oiwan Lam on the 50 Cent Tribe: The biggest difference between astroturfing and censorship: astroturfing is a PR term and censorship is a political Read More...
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Is it "war" against Chinese blogs?

Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 7:13 AM by will
BusinessWeek's Dexter Roberts has written an article titled " Inside the war against China's blogs " that looks at the impact of China's blogosphere on companies doing business in China, and how a group of specialist PR and monitoring companies help clients Read More...
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Shock! Chinese bloggers not completely obsessed with foreign companies

Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 6:59 AM by will
Ok, so we know that Chinese bloggers criticize a lot of stuff (and we can say from experience that bloggers from other nations do as well). From the Wall Street Journal's China Journal blog, here is an interesting piece quantifying what, exactly, Chinese Read More...
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Spontaneous Olympic joy by decree and other news

Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 6:28 AM by will
Cliff Coonan has a story in showbiz trade Variety that examines the broadcasting problems I posted about last week. The article is something of an omnibus piece on current Olympic issues. Among other things, it gets into the organizers' efforts to develop Read More...
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Good PR for American tech firms providing quake help

Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:08 AM by will
An interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today on some things that American technology companies are doing in addition to donations to help out with quake relief. Google, Microsoft and IBM are all using their technology in various ways to help Read More...
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The post-quake entertainment blackout

Posted Sunday, May 18, 2008 8:52 PM by will
Reports from the net and Twitter this morning that as part of the three days of official earthquake mourning , scheduled to begin this afternoon at 2:28PM, many and perhaps most entertainment venues, websites and broadcasting are to shut down. For more Read More...
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