What's in a name? Maybe a lot more soon in China
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Police in China, where most of the 1.3 billion people share just 100 surnames, are considering rules which would combine both parents' family names to prevent so much duplication, state media said on Tuesday.
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Taking a different name isn't just a cosmetic tweak. It might just usher in a whole new era at your company.
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Soon, a new name will pop up on Mike Rogers's hit list.
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(InfoWorld) - Fewer Chinese users are seeking out Google for its search services, according to a new report by the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC). According to the survey by China's official Internet number cruncher, 62.1 percent of Chinese users turned to local favorite Baidu for search, up from about 52 percent in 2005. Much of that growthÂ came at Google's expense. Baidu also had the highest brand recognition among search engines, with 86.5 percent of respondents identifying with the name, compared to only 64 percent for Google. CNNIC is an agency organization that monitors Internet use in China. Although its surveys are considered representative of Chinese Internet use, CNNIC rarely releases its methodology or sample size. However, for this survey, CNNIC said that it interviewed 4,500 total Chinese Internet users, 1,500 each in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, and that the poll had a 5 percent margin of error. Google saw its market share drop from 33 percent last year to 25.3 percent in the current survey. While a majority of users identified with the brand, 31.9 percent recognized Google's Chinese name, "Gu Ge," or "Harvest Song," in Chinese, compared to 16.3 percent for its English name. Google did come out ahead in one respect: it was the first choice for more non-student users with an income of greater than 3,000 renminbi ($378) than its rivals, with 46.5 percent. Despite the rivalry between Baidu and Google, it seems that a bigger user search pie would benefit both: 76.3 percent of survey respondents said they used more than one search engine regularly for a given subject.
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1st Ld: China eases off proposal for real-name registration of bloggers    BEIJING, May 22 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government looks set to back down from its long-held intention to impose strict real-name registration for the country's 20 million bloggers after outcries from the industry.
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Beijing is pushing Chinese firms to establish a global presenceÂdespite the may risks that involves
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Judges are not usually at risk of losing their jobs to modern technology but that may be changing in China, where new software is handing down sentences automatically.
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Just what will a new accounting regime uncover in China?
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With the Government embracing electronic media as tools to increase commerce and inform the people of what it is doing, words with the prefix "e" have become synonymous with new development.  The Internet and the World Wide Web offer new opportunities and pose new challenges for China.
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China is filthy and needs to spend lots of money to clean up. American companies could get that business.
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There are billions to be made if you have the right name.
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By Carol Cain, Detroit Free Press  Sep. 18--With so many big companies looking to China to grow their businesses, it's natural that small firms would want a piece of the pie.   David Hemmings has made it his job to at least supply them with the ingredients.
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The names of the characters have also changed.
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Facing foreign competition in 2007, China's banks are expanding loan options.
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The names may change. Not the results. China still rules the Olympic diving pool. The Chinese earned another gold medal - their fifth of the Athens Games - when Guo Jingjing
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SHANGHAI -- For entrepreneur Gary Wang, the next new thing in China is a place where the country's growing middle class, or "couch potatoes," can watch free videos to their hearts' content. His company's Web site, Tudou (Chinese for potato), has become insanely popular insanely fast -- more than 15...
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Some newsworthy tidbits that happened in the last weeks. Let&#8217;s start with something legal. Guge sues Guge Google carries the name Guge in China. There&#8217;s also the Beijing Guge Science and Technology Ltd. company. It seems, but not all is clear here yet, that said Beijing company started operating under the name Guge just one week after [...]