Wang's insight struck just as China's Web portals began to catch the country's early wave of Internet eyeballs.
Around the time of that second capital injection, ChinaCache found another mushrooming source of revenue: China's Web video boom.
Recently, Tencent -- the show's Internet partner and one of China's Web giants -- expressed some concerns that the show might be getting too sophisticated for its own good.
Google's share of China's Web-search market fell to 17.2% in the third quarter of 2011 from 36% in the fourth quarter of 2009, largely to the benefit of rival Baidu Inc.
Calvin Chin of Qifang makes college loans to students over the Web in China.
Chinese companies themselves aren't a big market for WebEx yet, but many of Zhu's U.S. and multinational customers do Web conferencing from China.
Evernote, the company behind the popular digital note-taking service of the same name, plans to tap the world's largest web community - China.
His start-up, housed in a warehouse decorated with colorful posters of VinaGame's blockbuster hits, is upbeat and reminds me of the funky spaces I've seen among leading Web businesses in China.
China's 100 million Web surfers are growing ever more dependent on links to Western servers in order to keep up to date on scientific topics and to keep their export-minded economy humming.
The company would have posted a loss for 2011 if it hadn't received a government subsidy, and the amount of debt on its balance sheet has doubled in the last two years, according to company financial statements posted on the official Web site for China's bond market.
Among other factors, Baidu shares have been under pressure from growing concerns about loss of market share to Qihoo 360, the leading Web browser provider in China, which recently entered the Internet search market.
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China, a portion of the Chinese Web company Alibaba partially owned by Yahoo!
Known mostly as creator of a Web browser widely used in China, Qihoo recently jumped into the search market, and appears to be getting considerable traction.
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It also expanded its footprint in China by acquiring a controlling interest in HiChina Web Solutions, a provider of Internet services such as domain registration and Web hosting.
But China potentially has Earth's No. 2 Web market--and no e-commerce firm wants to miss out.
Google has yet to bring its U.S. success to China--only about one in five Chinese Web searches starts at the site.
In fact, since 2008, China has accounted for almost a third of new web users, adding 215 million to the connected population.
At the recent Open Web Asia 2012 held at Haikou (China), Burpple was chosen as one of the Top 10 Startups in Asia, alongside other top Made-in-Asia apps like Between and Moglue.
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The US, Canada and the European countries had tablets generating more web traffic than smartphones but in Japan and China it was reversed.
When one newcomer, MediaZone, started a Web site to send prime-time shows from China to Chinese expats living abroad, it signed on with Akamai.
With this update and the wider joint operation of the game, people will be able to enjoy this web 3D shooting game on most of portals in China.
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This was no easy task when car manufacturers are facing the end of scrappage schemes, growing competition from China and India and the increase of "Motoring Spy" Web sites, where the arrival of a new model is known by the general public at least 18 months ahead of the launch.
After 10 years of development of online games in China, it had become possible to run 3D games on the web.
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As the relationship between the United States and China grows ever more tense, in part due to the complex web of competitive and collaborative situations that the two large economies increasingly find themselves in, the potential for misunderstanding grows.
Other successful web businesses, including Google and eBay, have had trouble navigating China.
On Friday, Chinese netizens had set up a Web site memorial to Jackson, and on Fanfou.com, China's version of Twitter, the pop star has become the most popular tag.
Because clones of popular web sites still are almost a fool-proof formula for success in China.
Just 6m of China's 50m or so internet users have shopped online (most use the web only for e-mail and news).
The China Internet Network Information Center, which answers to China's Ministry of Information Industry, controls the master "directory" of ".cn" Web sites.
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