Editor’s note: This is a guest post penned by Michael Cole, Managing Director of RightSite.asia, China’s largest online marketplace for commercial and industrial real estate. Cole has also successfully launched, grown and profitably exited from media ventures in China. After a modest amount of time observing China’s economy it becomes clear that the government likes [...]

With Groupon now expanding into Japan and Russia, the company’s plans for world domination continue apace. In this week’s episode of our (newly retitled) show, we spoke to Chairman and COO, Rob Solomon about the strategy of expansion-by-acquisition, the risks of fraud, what keeps Solomon awake at night — and why China is conspicuous by [...]

Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronic components manufacturer that makes products like certain Dell computers and Apple’s iPad and iPhone devices, was – as widely reported – hit by a string of suicides among its workers earlier this year. Apparently, this hasn’t had much effect on their growth rate (surprise): according to Bloomberg, the company plans to [...]

We’ve just received word from Google that they are not currently blocked in China and that a server issue was most likely the cause of their dashboard misread. From Google: Because of the way we measure accessibility in China, it’s possible that our machines could overestimate the level of blockage. That seems to be what [...]

Despite Android’s growth since 2007, many refuse to declare a winner in the battle between Apple and Google for supremacy in the West. However, Android seems ready to leapfrog competitors to grab dominance in China, the world’s largest mobile market. A combination of drastic price drops on Android phones and custom Chinese mobile applications supported [...]

Some Basics Tips for Internet Marketing in China! The internet is China’s most important medium for product promotion. The statistics surrounding internet usage show a continuous growth now estimated at 253 million users. The power of the internet is such that it has replaced the television set at home with more Chinese spending more time [...]

The United Nations Environment Program and the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century today reveal in a pair of new reports that despite an overall financial downturn in 2009, global investments in sustainable energy increased worldwide. Core clean energy investments from private and public sources totaled 2 billion. Policies that favor the development [...]

Back in January 2010, Google declared that it was no longer willing to continue censoring search results on Google.cn, and that it would possible shut down the Chinese search page, and potentially even its offices in China. In March, Google backed that talk up by redirecting Google.cn to Google.com.hk, a move that enabled it to [...]

On today’s episode of TechCrunch NOW, investor Jeff Clavier and CloudCrowd founder, Alex Edelstein, joined us to discuss Apple’s ambitious plans for China, BuyWithMe’s new round of funding, and Twitter’s latest product, Earlybird. Aside from Steve Jobs’ world domination plans, we focused on the hyper active daily deal market. Jeff Clavier, who has invested in [...]

There has been a lot of talk the last couple of days with Apple’s stance on the gigantic Chinese market. The Lenovo’s chief and founder stated “We are lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn’t care about China. If Apple were to spend the same effort on the Chinese consumer as [...]