China is working with software firm Canonical on an open-source operating system customised for Chinese users.
They are also more attuned to Chinese users' tastes, offering more interactive features and expressive, animated icons.
Chinese users tend to buy very little from iTunes, but the content portion of Apple's business in China is sure to grow.
Instead of billing monthly and letting users pay through their mobile phones, as most do in South Korea, they offer Chinese users pre-paid accounts.
We added many convenient features to provide Chinese users with one-click access to popular online activities such as gaming, shopping, banking, and microblogging, etc.
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Taobao offered instant messaging and voice mail to mobile phones for buyers and sellers because Chinese users were cell-phone savvy rather than computer savvy.
For now, that's hardly a concern: The Chinese government plans to subsidize the mobile digital TV service for the first year to whet Chinese users' enthusiasm for the technology.
Last month, Apple unveiled a host of new features tailored to Chinese users, including integrating its operating systems with Chinese Internet services and making it easier to input Chinese characters.
The San Francisco firm said it has dozens of clients experimenting with new ways to make money from Chinese users, including offering free digital content in exchange for engaging with an ad or downloading an app.
More than 250m Chinese internet users have taken to microblogs for many purposes, plenty of them purely recreational.
That's why they are now paying extensive attention to active Chinese Web users.
In the second quarter of 2010, according to Analysys International, Chinese mobile users chose Baidu first for mobile queries (34.3%).
Today, the shopping behavior of many of the 530 million Chinese internet users is changing gradually, but clearly towards online markets.
On November 6th, in the midst of the US presidential election, Chinese Internet users flocked to Weibo to follow the news.
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Still, the number of Google Web searches by mainland-Chinese Internet users has risen over the past two years, said Mr. Alegre, who is based in Tokyo and often visits Beijing and Shanghai.
Chinese social media users also commented on The New York Times story using implicit metaphors.
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Today, by using a Chinese language website, users can do all their business with Schwab online.
Both Baidu and Google are clashing in a market of 450 million Chinese Internet desktop search users.
It now has the most registered users among Chinese college students, and is like early stage facebook before it was Facebook and became a movie.
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With the rapid development of the Chinese Internet industry, users spend more time and conduct more activities online, such as downloading applications, playing games, online shopping, etc.
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If current growth rates continue, it says, the number of Internet users accessing the Internet in languages other than English (predominantly, in Chinese) will overtake English language users by 2015.
Young Chinese women are much heavier users of digital media than their male counterparts, focusing heavily on shopping activities.
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To date, apart from the odd minor traffic accident with other road users, the Chinese troops keep themselves to themselves.
One deal that has been rumoured for months is a takeover of UC Web, a Chinese mobile browser operator with 400 million users worldwide.
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Last fall, they partnered up with WeChat, the popular Chinese mobile messenger app boasting more than 100 million users.
Users in Beijing and many other major Chinese cities, including Shanghai, Chongqing, Chengdu, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, reported the same problem.
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