Business lessons from the World Expo
What business lessons can you pick up from this image? To understand and do business with China it’s extremely important to understand the lessons learned from the World Expo in Shanghai. Here’s a quick glance at some of the lessons you should try to lookout for when visiting the Expo: From the architecture, one can get an understanding of Chinese mentality. The China Pavilion architecture,... [Read more]
Google Pulls out of China
As I had predicted in my previous post, Google has stopped censoring it’s search results, and has pulled out of China. However, the plot-twist comes in the manner which Google pulled out! It decided to leave a lot of it’s R&D facilities, as well as mobile and a few other of it’s holdings in the maindland, and the google.cn, although shut down, is now being redirected to it’s... [Read more]
Google reported revenues of $6.67 billion for the quarter ended December 31, 2009
Google reported revenues of $6.67 billion for the quarter ended December 31, 2009 “Google had a strong fourth quarter, with 17% year over year revenue growth,” said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. “Given that the global economy is still in the early days of recovery, this was an extraordinary end to the year. Our performance in 2009 underscored the strength of our management team,... [Read more]
Google Leaving China
Google recently posted on their blog that they are considering pulling out of the China market and closing down google.cn. The gist of the story, if you still haven’t heard of it, basically, they recently suffered cyber attacks from super high-tech hackers, on top of the recent conflicts they’ve been having with Chinese writers with Google Books, not to mention June’s 2009 incident... [Read more]
Why is Apple’s Iphone Failing in China?
Iphone in China can succeed. Here's how... So Iphone entered China early September. And thus far, no more than a few thousand sales have been registered. Where did Apple go wrong? The problem isn’t due to the Iphone’s popularity, as there is a huge demand for Iphone’s in China. One can see black-market Iphones all over the place, which sell for anywhere from 4000 RMB to 6000RMB... [Read more]
