Oct 12 2009

China’s GAPP to foreign investors: You Don’t Have Game

Tag: China,China Internet Trends,China Strategy,Mobile,Technology in China — Chad Catacchio @ 7:04 pm

China’s GAPP (General Administration of Press and Publication) announced yesterday that foreign investment in China’s online gaming industry won’t be allowed (I presume from this point on and not retroactive). In this case, foreign investment includes foreign entrepreneurs, as the edict from the GAPP also denies foreigners from setting up wholly owned enterprises (WOEs) and/or joint ventures. Continue reading “China’s GAPP to foreign investors: You Don’t Have Game”

Sep 26 2009

QQ and the iPhone 3G & 3GS – the penguins are aligned

Tag: China,China Internet Trends,Mobile,Profiles of Chinese Companies — Chad Catacchio @ 5:45 pm

Today, a day after MMS was finally released for the iPhone in the US (I like the quote “now you can do what you did with your Razr in 2003!”), I was just using the Yahoo Instant Messenger iPhone app (yes, I still have some friends and relatives that hangout there so I go on once and a while begrudgingly), and it got me to thinking about what the iPhone means for IM-focused companies in China. Continue reading “QQ and the iPhone 3G & 3GS – the penguins are aligned”