Mobile Innovation and Internet Control in China
China currently has more internet users accessing the web with mobile devices than via personal...
Jun 15, 2016
China currently has more internet users accessing the web with mobile devices than via personal...
Jul 23, 2014
AFP reports that a court in Yunnan has sentenced Dong Rubin, a well-known microblogger and...
Jul 22, 2014
According to China Internet Network Information Center, the number of Chinese Internet users...
Dec 5, 2013
An increasing number of Internet users in China are turning to Lantern, a US-sponsored computer...
Nov 4, 2013
China Real Time’s Yiyi Lu describes a recent survey which found heavy liberal leanings among...
Sep 17, 2013
Amid China’s booming online gaming and messaging industry, Tencent Holdings...
Jun 27, 2013
In light of the recent release of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ Annual Report on Development of New Media in China, David Wertime at Tea Leaf Nation looks at how the report was received by the leadership and people:...
Oct 12, 2012
At The Atlantic, Brian Fung contemplates the longevity of the widely derided 80s buzzword “netizens” as a label for China’s politically engaged online population: Even in China, the word has grown a little...
Jul 19, 2011
The number of people online in China has been skyrocketing over the past decade. The statistics this year are still impressive, with 485 million people now using the Internet, but growth has slowed ever so slightly. From the...
Dec 31, 2010
The number of Internet users in China has reached 450 million, an increase of 20% over last year, Xinhua reports: Around 33.9 percent of the population are online, a ratio above the world average of 30 percent, Wang Chen,...
May 2, 2010
The population of Chinese netizens keeps growing. AFP reports on the latest numbers: The online population in the world’s most populous nation has reached 404 million, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing the State...
Apr 25, 2009
Despite the global economy, the Internet industry has been able to weather tough economic times. From Xinhua, via People’s Daily Online: Kai-fu Lee, vice president of Google, was optimistic about the company’s...
Apr 21, 2008
From USA Today via RedOrbit.com: China, already the world leader in cellphone use, has surpassed the USA as the No. 1 nation in Internet users. The number of Chinese on the Internet hit more than 220million as of February,...
Mar 14, 2008
China has more Internet users than any other country, the Wall Street Journal reports. The paper estimates that there are 228.5 million Internet users compared to 217.1 million in America: BDA estimates that China’s online...
Nov 26, 2007
pda: the digital content blog on The Guardian website writes about a new study of habits of Internet users in China and the U.S.: While 61% of the Chinese respondents, who had an average age of just over 20, agreed with the statement “I have a parallel life online”, only 13% of Americans said the […]
Aug 16, 2007
From Reuters: A Chinese couple tried to name their baby “@,” claiming the character used in e-mail addresses echoed their love for the child, an official trying to whip the national language into line said Thursday. The unusual name stands out especially in Chinese, which has no alphabet and instead uses tens of thousands of […]
Jul 14, 2007
From InformationWeek: The number of Internet users in China has reached 137 million, and with double-digit annual growth projected, the country is poised to overtake the United States in total number of users within a few years, a researcher said. Based on figures supplied by the China Network Information Center , the country’s Internet population […]
Jan 26, 2007
Opinion: Outlook for those looking to cash in on Chinese Internet growth is not particularly good, via InfoWorld: The semi-annual report from the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) is almost always a cause for exuberance. There are millions more Internet users in China! Yippee! Hooray! Now if we could just sell one (or one […]