2007 Venture Capital Investments in the Chinese Online Market

According to the Ernst & Young Quarterly China Venture Capital Report said that there were 22 separate venture capital deals in the second quarter of 2007 in China involving Internet firms that dealt with some form of information resources. The value of those deals was a record $209 million. This is a plus towards the […]

VC for Social Networking Sites in China: Online Dating prevails

ChinaVenture gives a summary of the venture capital investments from 2003 to 2006. The following table is translated and I added some information:

There is a clear focus on online dating communities. Why? Social life changes rapidly in China. Especially young people move to the cities in order to study or find a adequate job. They […]

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Only nine days left until departure. On the one hand we are more than excited and are looking forward to some days off. Which means relaxing at the beach, snorkeling, a lot of good food, etc. On the other hand we are a little sad to leave our friends and the life we got used […]

Taiwan food on Travelchannel

Andrew Zimmern covers Taiwan food in his well-known TV show “bizarre foods”.  6 spots are available here on Youtube, take a look, it’s really interesting.

200 most successful websites

The 2007 Web Trend Map is available. First time including a Chinese line with the most important websites in China (Baidu, Sina, Yahoo, QQ, PCHome, Taobao, Tom, 163, etc.). Fascinating, a great work and a must for every Internet marketing expert. That’s what iA says:
The 200 most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective. […]

The move goes on.

Only four more weeks to go. But still a lot of things to do. We did a lot of paperworks in the last couple of weeks, so we are pretty much done with this part. But concerning the household we haven’t achieved too much. Everything is still there, all the furniture, clothes, appliances, etc.  The […]