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Alibaba Group, one of the world's biggest e-commerce companies, said Monday its executive vice president will succeed founder Jack Ma as chief executive. http://phys.org/news282195566.html Technology Mon, 11 Mar 2013 04:39:41 EST news282195566 Chinese Internet giant Tencent on Wednesday posted a third quarter net profit increase of 32 percent, benefiting from the popularity of its instant messaging services and online games. http://phys.org/news272097129.html Technology Wed, 14 Nov 2012 06:32:15 EST news272097129 (AP)—Google Inc. said Friday it will close a music download service in China, further reducing its presence in the world's most populous Internet market two years after the company closed its mainland search engine in a dispute over censorship and computer hacking. http://phys.org/news267423154.html Technology Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:12:43 EST news267423154 (AP)—Microsoft Corp. will hire more than 1,000 additional employees in China this year and boost research and development spending by 15 percent as it tries to catch up with Apple and Google in the fast-growing mobile Internet market, executives said Thursday. http://phys.org/news266124507.html Technology Thu, 06 Sep 2012 04:28:38 EST news266124507 (AP)—Baidu Inc., which operates China's most popular search engine, has released a mobile browser and says it will invest in a cloud computing center as growth in Internet use shifts to mobile phones. http://phys.org/news265948968.html Technology Tue, 04 Sep 2012 03:44:54 EST news265948968 Facebook hopes to release its own smartphone by next year, as the newly public social networking giant looks to boost its revenue in the mobile Internet market, the New York Times reported Monday. http://phys.org/news257448153.html Electronics Mon, 28 May 2012 18:22:44 EST news257448153 After years of mortifying missteps, Yahoo Inc. finally has something to boast about: a multibillion-dollar windfall from a savvy investment in China. http://phys.org/news256843161.html Technology Mon, 21 May 2012 18:19:27 EST news256843161 The sight of a vacationing Mark Zuckerberg in Shanghai has sparked a frenzy of online speculation over the possibility Facebook might return to China, even though the site remains firmly blocked. http://phys.org/news252146168.html Technology Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:36:15 EST news252146168 Latin America is the world's fastest-growing market for Internet access, and could double within a decade, the group that oversees Internet-related tasks said Friday. http://phys.org/news251148062.html Technology Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:50:01 EST news251148062 (PhysOrg.com) -- With identity fraud and the increasingly open Internet growing, consumers seem less likely to give out personal information online. For e-commerce and online marketers, this is a roadblock to the customer service and market research on which they thrive. http://phys.org/news249717527.html Other Sciences Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:58:52 EST news249717527 Few experts were surprised when Facebook disclosed in its recent IPO filing that its user growth had slowed in the U.S. and Canada. But a deeper look at Facebook's user numbers shows its growth is also slowing in Europe and Asia, untapped markets seen as vital to its fast-growing business, putting more pressure on the company to assure investors it can keep its revenue and profit expanding. http://phys.org/news248005886.html Technology Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:50:01 EST news248005886 (AP) -- Lenovo Group Ltd., the world's second biggest personal computer maker, said Thursday that quarterly profit grew by more than half but warned hard drive costs would remain high amid a global shortage. http://phys.org/news247985947.html Technology Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:30:02 EST news247985947 Apple has started accepting payment in China's yuan currency through its online store, opening it up to the biggest Internet market in the world, company officials said Monday. http://phys.org/news241085083.html Technology Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:04:51 EST news241085083 LinkedIn Corporation said Tuesday it had opened a research and development centre in India, the US-based professional online networking site's first such office outside North America. http://phys.org/news240583525.html Technology Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:45:34 EST news240583525 A Chinese government agency is investigating two telecommunications giants for allegedly monopolising Internet broadband services, state media said Wednesday, in an unusual public spat. http://phys.org/news240056456.html Technology Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:21:07 EST news240056456 (AP) -- Sina Corp., a popular Chinese web portal operator, sank to a loss in the latest quarter due to writedowns on investments in two online businesses but revenues and microblog traffic were up. http://phys.org/news240040037.html Technology Wed, 09 Nov 2011 05:47:28 EST news240040037 Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt agreed Monday to set up a YouTube channel exclusively for South Korean pop music, as he began a visit aimed at expanding his company's presence in the country. http://phys.org/news239862428.html Technology Mon, 07 Nov 2011 04:27:19 EST news239862428 (AP) -- Baidu Inc., which operates China's most popular search engine, said Friday its latest quarterly profit jumped 80 percent as strong growth in usage of its site helped to drive advertising revenue higher. http://phys.org/news238994577.html Technology Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:23:25 EST news238994577 Google expects India's Internet users to triple by 2014 as telecom carriers invest in high-speed wireless infrastructure and smartphones become cheaper, a report said Friday. http://phys.org/news235364970.html Technology Fri, 16 Sep 2011 04:30:01 EST news235364970 Baidu Inc., which operates China's dominant search engine, said Tuesday its quarterly profit jumped 95 percent on traffic growth and strong spending by big advertising customers. http://phys.org/news230867059.html Technology Tue, 26 Jul 2011 02:46:06 EST news230867059 As Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg ponders a strategy for China, the conditions imposed in the world's largest Internet market were highlighted recently when executives of the country's top Web companies gathered to sing revolutionary songs and wave red flags to commemorate the recent 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. http://phys.org/news230226985.html Technology Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:56:42 EST news230226985 An enterprising Chinese man has come up with a solution for gadget-crazy people who desperately want Apple's popular iPad tablet computer but cannot afford it -- DIY. http://phys.org/news229752288.html Electronics Wed, 13 Jul 2011 05:05:08 EST news229752288 A court in south China has jailed three people for stealing the design to Apple's iPad2 tablet computer and using it to manufacture counterfeits, state press said Wednesday. http://phys.org/news227350847.html Technology Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:10:01 EST news227350847 (AP) -- An online payment system founded by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group was granted a government license, the company said Thursday, following an ownership change that rattled investors in partner Yahoo Inc. http://phys.org/news225623958.html Technology Thu, 26 May 2011 10:19:34 EST news225623958 Chinese search engine Baidu said Thursday it was thinking about expanding into more overseas markets and expected its share of the booming domestic mobile search market to grow rapidly. http://phys.org/news225600983.html Technology Thu, 26 May 2011 04:20:01 EST news225600983 LinkedIn, the professional-networking website firm, said Tuesday it expects to be worth as much as $4 billion when it goes public soon, sparking fears of another Internet bubble. http://phys.org/news224911807.html Technology Wed, 18 May 2011 04:30:31 EST news224911807 Apple fans queued up for hours Friday in China to snap up the iPad 2 as the updated version of the popular tablet computer went on sale in the world's biggest Internet market. http://phys.org/news223893737.html Electronics Fri, 06 May 2011 10:00:01 EST news223893737 Like millions of Chinese, Liu Wen has fallen in love with group buying, which has electrified e-commerce in a country where getting the best possible discount is virtually a national pastime. http://phys.org/news220502672.html Technology Mon, 28 Mar 2011 04:10:07 EST news220502672 (AP) -- U.S.-based website Groupon.com says it has launched a discount coupon site in China, hoping to capitalize on the world's most populous Internet market. http://phys.org/news218118320.html Technology Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:25:35 EST news218118320 Chinese Internet firm Tencent has taken a majority stake in US online game developer Riot Games less than two weeks after announcing plans to launch a $760 million fund to invest in such companies. http://phys.org/news216198319.html Technology Sun, 06 Feb 2011 08:40:01 EST news216198319