Chinese search engine Baidu has launched an online shopping mall in China. Rakuten, the Japanese e-commerce giant, teamed up with Baidu to develop Lekutian (meaning ‘Happy Cool Day’ in case you were wondering), which will compete with the established Alibaba Group – the biggest online retail network in China, currently holding a 75% market share (Analysys International). Read more »

Most of North Korea’s 23 million citizens don’t have access to the internet, but that hasn’t stopped the North Korean government from creating their own Twitter account. Read more »

Baidu’s CEO Robin Li made a rare media appearance this week, and discussed the company’s plans for international expansion, the effects of Google’s move away from China, censorship and the ‘revolutionary’ product Baidu has up its sleeve. Read more »

The words ‘Facebook’ and ‘Twitter’ have become synonymous with social networking in the UK, but what about in other parts of the world? For social media marketers wanting to take their strategies international, it’s a case of having to think outside the Facebook and Twitter box. Read more »

After the dramatic twists and turns of the past few months, the Chinese government have decided to hand Google back its internet content provider (ICP) licence