China's beleaguered group buy sites are for the most part doing so badly these days that the "Chinese group buy segment hurting" story is starting to feel a bit cliched. Last time, it was locally-focused group buy sites feeling the hurt. So what's today's unlucky subset of the group buy market? College group buy sites! According to an IT Times report, these sites -- which are targeted at and often also created by college students -- have been having just as bad a time of it as everyone else. The once-nationwide ...
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China Mobile Loses 30% of Campus Market, A Threat to its Future
A new school year in China, a new battle for mobile subscribers amongst China’s three mobile telcos. It’s an annual campus battle, in which the competing companies see a chance to lock-down a customer to one phone number - and one brand - perhaps for life. But China Mobile (HKG:0941), the country’s largest mobile network, is rapidly losing this fight for freshman customers, and that risks its entire market domination. Compared to its previous amazing success of up to 98 percent market share on China’s campuses, China Mobile is really suffering ...
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Indonesian Universities Starting to Use Mobile Apps For Academic Activities
Given the high rate of usage of mobile devices among teenagers in Indonesia, it is not a surprise that educational institutions have begun to use gadgets to facilitate communication with students. Two universities in Indonesia now have special mobile applications for conveying academic information. These apps are supposedly the first mobile academic applications in the country, according to the universities. The University of Bunda Mulia in Jakarta recently launched its M Campus applications for Android phones. This application includes class and faculty schedules, a student’s courses and GPA, payment details, ...
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How Firefox Spreads the Word in China, on Social Media and on Campus [INTERVIEW]
Half of all the internet users in the world who are clinging grimly to the decade-old Internet Explorer 6 browser are in China. Mozilla China is doing its best to spread the word, and usage, of its own Firefox browser across China - on the web, on social media, and even on university campuses. Firefox is known as "huo hu" in China, where it faces up against the behemoth IE as well as home-grown browsers such as those from 360 or Sogou. In its early days, Firefox was held back by ...
Jun 28 2011
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Chinese University Students Pick Desired Tech Employers
A Chinese recruitment website has released a survey of over 200,000 university students, asking them to choose the companies where they would like to work. Technology companies are well represented, so we thought we’d take a look at the top employers in each of the following sectors: online entertainment, Internet/e-commerce, computer hardware/software, and telecommunications. Chinese Gaming Giants Beat out SNS In online entertainment we have gaming companies Shanda and Giant topping the list (see table below), with video site Youku taking the third spot. Social networks Renren and Kaixin are in here ...
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VIDEO: Yale University Has An Awesome Recruitment Ad
What happens when you are an Ivy League school and you have so many things to boast about, you do not know where to start? You've considered a website filled with tiny fonts of university information but even a geek would switch himself off. So how about a 17 min video that candidly summarizes all the things you want your potential students to know, from residential areas to CCAs? Well, that was what Yale University did, and did very well. If only they would want me.
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