The Canton Fair, one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive trade shows, opened its 103rd session April 14th in Guangzhou, China.
This year’s event (and almost every year) is said to be the ‘biggest and best’ with ever increasing numbers of exhibitors and expected attendees.
However, SCMP.com and our good friend, Paul Woodward, have reported that [...]

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Tencent (0700.HK), China’s leading provider of Internet and mobile / telecommunications value-added services, is now the official and exclusive Internet sponsor of the 2010 World Expo.
Why is this significant?
- The World Expo has a 150 year history.
- The next World Expo will be held in Shanghai May 1-Oct 31, 2010 and is expecting over 70 [...]

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Pacific Epoch, a boutique research house focused on China technology, media, and telecom investment news, announced that Tejari.com is expanding in China.
Tejari.com is a B2B online trade marketplace, much like Alibaba.com and GlobalSources.com, but with a slant towards the Middle East, where it is based. Tejari boasts 150,000 members from the Middle East and [...]

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Further to my April 3rd post, Washington state Governor Chris Gregoire signed into law the toughest toy law in the United States.
The law will dramatically cut the amount of lead, cadmium and phthalates, a commonly used plasticizing chemical, allowed in children’s toys, cosmetics, jewelry, teething items and car seats made or sold in the state.
The [...]

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Officials in the state of Washington recently passed a bill that could set the toughest restrictions on lead content in toys/children’s products for the United States.
The bill reduces lead content allowable in toys/children’s products to 90 parts per million for some products and 40 parts per million for others. This may not seem dramatic but [...]

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Comscore, a U.S. based web tracking company, released data earlier this year showing significant slowing in Google’s main revenue source, Adwords (or Pay-Per-Click – PPC – also referred to as paid clicks). This kicked off speculation that Google’s Superman strength is weakening with added kryptonite from a slowing global economy that could lead to [...]

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The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai has released a new study that shows companies that view China as both a source of lowercost labor/products as well as a growth market, and integrate these operationally, are much more profitable than companies focused on only one of these items.
The study shows (taken from press release):
• Operations [...]

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Google recently introduced a secondary search function this month which is getting mixed reviews.

The upside for Google is:
1. Increased traffic by retaining user’s for additional searches.
2. Increased revenues/profits from added pay-per-click opportunities from Adwords.
For Google user’s, they can enjoy the accuracy of Google’s search technology at a secondary level which should provide increased accuracy versus [...]

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China continues to grow at jaw dropping levels across many different industries and the most recent mobile phone, internet and e-commerce data does not fail to impress.
According to consulting and research firm, BDA, China has surpassed the United States as the world’s largest internet population with over 216 million users. Based upon current growth trends, [...]

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Keep your eyes on the upcoming earnings release from Hong Kong listed Alibaba.com as this is the company’s first ever announcement and should provide insight into sales trends and the possible mergers & acquisitions they keep making reference to.
Alibaba.com’s investor relations site.
Alibaba to announce 2007 Full Year Financial Results
Date: 18 March 2008 (Tuesday)
Time: After the [...]

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