With new language expansion, Friendster digs a hole to China
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The onetime social-networking leader, having lost ground in the U.S. to Facebook and MySpace, sets its sights on China.
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Japan's hugely popular online social networking site Mixi said Wednesday it planned to expand into China, whose growing number of Internet users are already being courted by Rupert Murdoch's MySpace.
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With 100 million Chinese using the Internet, the country's nascent blogosphere is a potent platform for do-gooders and for demagogues
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Global software makers are looking to China as a new center for research efforts, seeking to take advantage of cheap programming talent despite nagging intellectual property concerns.
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(InfoWorld) - "I have sent my wife across there because she understands the language," The Financial Times reported News Corp. Chief Executive Officer Rupert Murdoch saying. "There" is China, and he sent Wendi Deng "across" to try to avoid the pitfalls that have ensnared other Western Internet ventures, including News Corp.'s. I had to laugh when I read that, after I stopped shaking my head in disbelief. After knocking on China's door for years, Mr. Murdoch has clearly learned nothing. Sending a representative who carries no portfolio for the company except a wedding ring isn't going to impress anyone in China, regardless of where she was born or what language she speaks. That "send the Chinese guy" strategy worked so well for Yahoo Inc. they no longer own their China unit and their coffers are $1 billion lighter. The one- or two-day "parachute" approach so many CEOs use isn't any better. Fortune 500 CEOs pay lip service to their and their companies' commitment to China on a daily basis, and it's wearing thin, especially on the Chinese. "We're in it for the long-term," "we're here to stay," "China is such an important market for us" -- stop me when you've heard enough, because people here certainly have. If foreign companies are committed to the Chinese market, then it's time to demonstrate that in a meaningful way. The CEOs need to lead a China initiative the same way they would back restructuring, going green, or any other major corporate project. Today I issue the China CEO Challenge: as CEO of a non-Chinese company, show your commitment to the China market by moving here for a year. Establish your personal headquarters in a major Chinese city (Hong Kong doesn't count). Business travel is permitted, but for one year, your home and office are here. For extra credit, have your board meetings in China too. My guess is that if Eric Schmidt parked it in an office overlooking the Bund or the Forbidden City for a year, China's perspective of Google would change and vice-versa. He should spend some time trying to use his company's sites on a regular ADSL connection, and slamming his fist against the desk when some of them are blocked. When pictures of him sitting at the corner shop slurping down beef noodles start showing up in local newspapers, it'll win hearts and minds. I'd bet the first CEO to do this will be European. There was a rumor a couple of years ago that Volkswagen's CEO was going to spend half the year in China and half in Germany, but it never happened. The opportunity is still there. If the U.S. or European or your other home market is more important, that's fine. But then stop saying how committed you are to China because sitting in the same traffic, using the same Internet connections, and eating the same food is the real price of admission.
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By Li Weitao  China has made a major step forward in Internet technology, which could offer faster, more secure access and ease worries over network capacity, industry insiders said this weekend.
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BEIJING, Dec. 27 -- With the launch of the first backbone network of the next-generation Internet in China, the country is expected to dramatically narrow its gap with the world&#39;s leaders, officials and experts said.
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By Virgil Larson, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  May 25--DENVER -- Level 3 Communications Inc. is eyeing China as a market for the network and services it now sells across the United States and much of Europe.
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It is eBayâs second attempt to break into the Chinese market after the collapse of the companyâs EachNet venture, and the first with a local partner.
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Any day now China will have more web users than the US, but the net has been tamed by Beijing's iron grip
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China, computers and algorithms combine in a perfect storm.
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Blog: Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield tells how to get around China's  blocking of Yahoo photo-sharing site.
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Also: Internet boom in China built on virtual fun. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Friendster chose Google as its exclusive advertising and search provider today after not resigning with Yahoo, their previous search &#038; ad provider. Friendster, which was the first major social networking site that ironically fizzled out in the United States, is planning a global expansion which will build upon the success found in the Pacific.  Friendster is [...]
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China might have been a learner and follower in the development of the first generation internet, but now they have progressed to the cutting edge internet technology.
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Blog: Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield offers a tip on how to get around Chinese blocking of Yahoo's photo-sharing site.
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A peek through the West&#39;s net curtains this morning revealed an unexpected visitor on the doorstep. China. Not content with luring manufacturing contracts to Shanghai, the dragon economy&#39;s appetite is driving