Li Pin
Jan 24-Jan 30, 2003
1.
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
2.
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
3.
Chinese
new is coming, all the Chinese people will have a at least one week holidays,
so CCW Research recently did a research about Greeting the Chinese new year.
The research said, for 2003, SMS would become the first important way for the
people to greet their friend new year. It forecast that in the New Year first
week, average every mobile user would send 40 piece messages. And total message would be over 7
billion in that week in China. Among them, 1.9% will be MMS. The total SMS and
MMS income in that week will get 800 million RMB.
http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/t/2003-01-28/0830163455.shtml
Chinese version
4.
Jan
27, China Unicom announces that Yao Ming (NBA) is their CDMA brand spokesman
for three years. China Unicom managers thought this would give more competition
ability to China Unicom and more chance to get more users.
http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/t/2003-01-28/0735163446.shtml
Chinese version
5.
S Korea Government Adopts New Policies For Wireless
Companies
SEOUL -(Dow Jones)- South Korean wireless carriers
will be allowed to share the same prefix service numbers and mobile subscribers
will be able to switch calling plans without changing phone numbers, beginning
in January 2004.
http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/030127/2024000917_1.html
6.
SK Telecom's 4th-Quarter Net Profit Fell 24%
SEOUL, South Korea -- SK Telecom Co. said Wednesday
its fourth-quarter net profit fell 24% from a year earlier to 164 billion won
($139.5 million), mainly because of incurred losses from its equity swap with
KT Corp. and a rise in nonoperating expenses.
http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/030122/0234000285_1.html
7. In 2002, Nokia increase its Mobile market share from 35% to 38% in
Globe, it is still be the NO 1, and Motorola also increased its market to 19%
in Globe, but in China market, homemade Mobile brands increased their market
from 12% to 30%.
http://tech.tom.com/Archive/1121/1367/2003/1/29-53661.html
Chinese version
8.
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
9.
a news said, now, in China, there are almost 40 million Internet game
users, and last year the Gross of Internet game income is 1 billiob RMB. And
every year the incresing speed is over 50% in China.
http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/c/2003-01-27/0904163297.shtml Chinese
version
The fourth week banner
report URL is:
http://www.geocities.com/pinanxa/training/banners/banner.html
I finish the study of SINA
report, and I update it to:
http://www.geocities.com/pinanxa/training/news0128.htm
And when NETEASE report, I
will make a comparation of the three portal
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
This week I also learned
about the google account and how to search the sales data.