Li Pin
January 2003
1. SINA to
Acquire Leading Independent Mobile Value-Added Service Provider in China
Acquisition
will double SINA Wireless revenue, add two million paying subscribers, expands
service offerings and triple nation-wide sales force
BEIJING
& SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 2003-- SINA Corporation
(Nasdaq:SINA - News), a leading online media
company and value-added information service provider for China and for global
Chinese communities, announced today that it has entered into a definitive
agreement to acquire MeMeStar, a leading independent mobile value-added service
provider in China for a total purchase price of $20.8 million in cash and SINA
shares. After the acquisition, SINA expects to double its wireless revenue, add
two million paying subscribers, triple its nation-wide sales force for wireless
business, and expand its overall service offerings.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030106/60153_1.html
2.
Jan 8,2003. Sina and Ncsoft
announced their co-operation start work, and they start their first game
“lineage” in China. This time they co-work, focus on Internet game. Ncsoft is a
Korea Internet game company, and it is also the biggest Internet game company
in the world. “lineage” is the most popular Internet game, it has 100 million
register users in the world.
News from sina.com.cn: http://tech.sina.com.cn/focus/Lineage/
3. China Web portals surge to 2-year highs
HONG KONG, Dec 24 (Reuters)
- Shares of three China-oriented web porrtals soared to highs not seen since the
height of the Internet boom on Monday on the expectation they will report
fourth-quarter profits -- the first time all three would have done so in the
same quarter
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/021223/tech_china_portals_2.html
4. China United Telecom Says CDMA Subscribers Exceed 7
Million
BEIJING -(Dow Jones)- State-owned telecom operator China United Telecommunications Co., the parent company of China Unicom Ltd. , said subscribers to its code division multiple access, or CDMA, network have topped 7 million.
China United Telecom President Wang Jianzhou said
Thursday that its CDMA subscribers reached 7.01 million as of Wednesday, the
official Xinhua News Agency reported.
http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/021226/0554000097_1.html
5. S Korea's SK
Telecom, China Unicom To Sign JV Deal Thursday
SEOUL -(Dow Jones)- South Korea's SK Telecom Co. will sign
an agreement with mobile service provider China Unicom Ltd. later Thursday to
set up a wireless Internet joint venture in China.
Financial
terms weren't disclosed.
In a
disclosure to the Korea Stock Exchange Thursday, SK Telecom, South Korea's
largest wireless carrier, said the joint venture will offer wireless Internet
services to subscribers of code-division multiple access technology- based
mobile services through China Unicom.
SK
Telecom will own 49% of the joint venture, which will be launched in the first
half of 2003, while China Unicom will hold a 51% stake.
http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/030115/2231001086_1.html
6. NBA.com Launches Internet Site in Chinese
China's Leading Internet Portal SOHU.com to Host, Publish and Promote New Site, NBA.com/china
BEIJING, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NBA.com, the
official web site of the National Basketball Association, and SOHU.com (Nasdaq:
SOHU - News),
China's leading Internet portal, announced today the launch of a comprehensive
Chinese destination, NBA.com/china. The new site features audio, statistics and
text content translated by SOHU, which will also host, publish and promote the
site in China.
NBA.com/china, written entirely in Chinese characters, will provide fans with extensive NBA coverage throughout the season, along with the NBA All-Star Game, NBA Draft and special events, including offseason trades and breaking news.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030115/nyw057_1.html
7. Motorola and
SINA Enters into Strategic Cooperation on Wireless Site to Serve Mobile Handset
Users in China
SINA's Three-Year Strategic Alliance With Motorola Includes Advertising Commitments, Wireless Information Providing and Wireless Community Building
BEIJING & SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13,
2003-- SINA Corporation (Nasdaq:SINA - News),
a leading online media company and value-added information service provider for
China and for global Chinese communities, announced today that it has been
selected by Motorola, the market leader for cell phone handsets in China, as
its strategic partner for a wireless site to serve mobile users in China. The
three-year strategic agreement includes advertising commitments from Motorola
as well as strategic cooperation on providing wireless information and wireless
community functionalities in China.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030113/130122_1.html
8. China Telecom, Netcom To Keep Building PHS In '03
–Report
BEIJING -(Dow Jones)-
Chinese telecom operators will continue investing this year in the discount
mobile phone service known as Xiaolingtong, or "Little Smart",
according to an analyst report issued at the weekend.
While
China Telecom Group and China Netcom Group will likely shift their focus to
conventional mobile phone services once they are licensed to do so, in the
meantime they will continue to expand networks for Xiaolingtong, the report by
Beijing-based Norson Telecom Consulting said.
Xiaolingtong is a type of limited-mobility phone service
similar to the PHS, or personal handyphone system, technology used in Japan. Its
rates are much cheaper than conventional mobile services but it doesn't allow
roaming outside the local service area.
http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/030113/0232000037_1.html
9. After IQ and EQ, now, Now more and more company start use
AQ, AdversityQuotient,High AQ person will
become well faster than low AQ person after a operation in hospital, and high
AQ person is good in sales, and know how to face the bad situation in his work.
http://tech.sina.com.cn/roll/2003-01-13/1247160852.shtml
10. A research from International Data Corp, it is said
in the 4th quarter, there
is total sold
6.8 million PCs in Asia (except Japan). The rating is:
No. 1 is
Legend (13.2%)
No. 2 is HP
(8.7%)
No. 3 is IBM
(6.3%)
No. 4 is Dell
(5.8%)
No. 5 is
Founder (4.5%)
No. 6 is
Samsung (4%)
http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/w/2003-01-21/0754162236.shtm
11. A news said, this half year, even though the Internet users increase
fast in China, but the top three
website traffic volume start to decrease. Data from Alexa said, hale years ago,
the top three website rating in the globe website is: Sina # 7; Sohu # 12 and
Netease #11, and now their rating in the globe website is: Sina # 12, Sohu # 15
and Netease # 16.
http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/w/2003-01-20/1802162203.shtml
12. SOHU.COM
Reports Fourth Quarter & 2002 Fiscal Year Financial Results
Fourth Quarter Income 6 Cents Per Share Fourth Quarter Revenue Growth of 157% Full Year Revenues Growth of 121% over 2001
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030120/lnm006_1.html
13. A news from Ministry of Information Industry said: for year 2002, the mainly four Telecom careers market share are: China Mobile (37.4%), China Telecom (32.5%), China Netcom (16.6%), and China Unicom (12.1%). In 2002, they total finished income is 457.6 billion RMB.
http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/t/2003-01-24/0821162913.shtml
Chinese
version
14. By the end of 2002, China Unicom total has mobile users 68.17 million, include GSM users about 61.00 million and about CDMA users 7 million. In 2002, China Unicom total increase users 27.00 million.
http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/t/2003-01-24/1114163001.shtml
Chinese version.
15. China's
Sina.com posts first ever quarterly profit
NEW
YORK, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Sina.com (NasdaqNM:SINA - News) on Monday posted its
first-ever, no-excuses quarterly profit of $1.5 million, the third of China's
four publicly-listed dot-com Internet media companies to generate small
quarterly profits.
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/030127/tech_sina_earns_2.html
16. Jan 28, 2003. China Unicom’s
CDMA X1 was be first used in Shanghai city. It means China Unicom’s CDMA enter
2.5G period. So now the Shanghai users will be the first to use China Unicom’s
WAP, MMS, and Mobile camera take and send pictures. But for the whole nation,
CDMA X1 will be used in March this year, that is a formal time.
http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/t/2003-01-28/0815163453.shtml
Chinese
version
17. China
"Little Smart" Users Exceed 12 Million By End-2002
BEIJING
-(Dow Jones)- The number of subscribers in China to the discount mobile phone
service known as Xiaolingtong, or "Little Smart", grew by 7.8 million
during 2002 to exceed 12 million by the end of the year, an industry executive
said Friday.
http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/030124/0415000137_1.html
STUDY OF MEMESTAR
Memestar is a wireless service provider in its developing period. Company located in Guangzhou City (capital city of Guangdong province, it is beside Hong Kong and Shenzhen).
MeMeStar,
also known as "Xunlong", is a leading independent mobile value-added
service provider in China with two million monthly paying subscribers. The
company has 160 employees with service coverage areas spanning over twenty
provinces in China. MeMeStar has developed strong market presence in the
prosperous Southern and Eastern provinces of Guangdong, Zhejiang and Jiansu,
where the combined mobile user base exceeds 50% of the total China mobile user
base. MeMeStar has consistently ranked in the top three mobile value-added
service providers in terms of revenue and market share in these provinces.
Company website is; www.memestar.com and www.meme.com.cn. This company is a member of
www.monternet.com. (The service website
of China Mobile).
They have one Internet
content product and six wireless content products.
One Internet content product
is “Dating”, it is a community for the users to make friends, to date girls, to
update your pictures, and also you can leave messages to BBS. You just need
register, so you can use all the services. And you also can become the VIP, so
you can use more special services, but you have to pay.
Wireless content product
In its website said, there are already 3 million
users had been used their services, and 600 million messages for their services.
STUDY OF CHINA MOBILE MARKET 2002
Ministry of Information
Industry reported: In 2002, BIRD is still the NO 1 in all Chinese mobile phone
Brands in selling. And BIRD was also the NO 1 in 2000 and 2001.
They also reported: In
2002, the first 11-month, in China market total sold mobile phones 61.34
million, the TOP 10 Mobile phone are:
NO 1: MOTOROLA sold 16.61 million (27.1%)
NO 2: NOKIA
sold 10.49 million (17.1%)
NO 3: BIRD
sold 5.65 million (9.2%)
NO 4: TCL
NO 5: SIEMENS
NO 6: KEJIAN
NO 7: AMOISONIC
NO 8: ZET-ZHONGXING
NO 9: KONKA
NO 10: EASTCOM
Among the TOP 10 Mobile
Brands, they are just three foreign brands: MOTOROLA, NOKIA and SIEMENS. This
means in 2002, for Chinese mobile brands companies, it is a successful year.
And even BIRD enters TOP 3.
Samsung is the NO 3 In the
world already, but because Samsung just got the license to sell their Mobile
phone in China on the second half year of 2002, and even before many Samsung
were sold in China Market, but most them were smuggled. That is why Samsung did
not enter the TOP 10.
And some website:
BIRD: www.chinabird.com
Eastcom: www.eastcom.com
News from: http://tech.sina.com.cn/roll/2003-01-16/1137161451.shtml
Chinese version
STUDY OF CNNIC 2nd half year of 2002
report
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STUDY OF SOHU AND SINA profitable report
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