Another reverse shift of direction between virtual and physical. ChinaTechNews reports that Taobao.com, China’s largest online auction site, has opened a digitally augmented mall in Shanghai and plans to open 11 more by year’s end. It looks like this is not so much a move to create a new physical retail empire as a nod…

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Interesting snippet from the Danwei TV Hard Hat Show’s episode on “Hong Huang, Media Mogul and Blogger“.

FYI, Hong Huang, 洪晃, is a high-flying “media mogul” who runs several magazines here in China, including the Beijing and Shanghai editions of Timeout. (Her mother was also Mao Zedong’s translator.)

In the middle of the episode, she comments on why…

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This June 8 editorial by Chinese journalist Tang Yuankai in the Bangladesh The New Nation points out a few of the ways that Chinese internet companies are creating their own business models, and also how these new business models come into conflict with Wall Street analysts’ ideas about how to run a business.

Alibaba is devoted to…

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Reporting from Beijing.

I didn’t see QQ noodles at the local supermarket, but I did see Hong Lee’s Internet Snack:

Also spotted, at a mall, was a Popkart store, selling many adorable large-size plush dolls.

An online movement to not buy a house for three years has been started here. Its goal is to stem the recent sharp rise in real estate prices, and particularly to stop real estate agents who are only in it only to make a quick buck at the expense of others.

Via PostShow.

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