QQ/Tencent Moving Oversea

QQ, once just the biggest online instant messaging service, has become also the biggest online gaming company in China. And like other giant online game companies in China, QQ’s steps across the border line has quickened over the last year.

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Skylight – Lenovo’s Android Netbook?

As Raw Plunger has reported earlier, Lenovo has bought back Lenovo Mobile business and promised to stride into mobile internet business. And they’re not just talking, but moving fast with a flashy new netbook, rumored to be named “Skylight”, which will abandon the clunky Windows XP and instead using Android OS.

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Out and Free Again

After over a month and half Raw Plunger’s DNS server was taken offline by MII, we finally convinced them that we’re not writing anything other than celebrating the harmony of China’s society. And now finally here we are, out and free again. I hope those of you out there weren’t holding your breathe waiting for us to come back; or somehow we hope you were,

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BitTorrent Has Hit the Wall Finally in China

Three major BitTorrent websites including BT@China, Eden and YouYouNiao have been taken offline since 4th November. Those websites served millions of online population in the past and now they’ll have to look somewhere else.

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Going Mobile - Ultimate Destination for SNS

Kaixin001 has over 40 million registered users; RenRen has active user base of 4 million. But comparing to over 600 million mobile users in China, there’s still a big margin worth fighting for. With the current web SNS situation moslty settled, the margin left for mobile internet seems to be the next battleground for the

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Top 3 Online Video Services in China of 2009Q3

Analysys International has recently released a report that online video sharing sites market shares are surpassing the P2P market. The top three online video services are:

YouKu.com – 16.5%

PPStream – 11.5%

Ku6 – 10.7%

The third place was held by TuDou.com this time last year, but it fell to the six place this year at 9.7%.

It seems it’s

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