Turnover at Taobao.com grew 156% to US$5.98 billion last year, putting it ahead of all major retailers bar Bailian Group. Yang Guoqiang of the China Business News takes a look at the growth of China’s most popular online shop, and the challenges ahead

Although most likely just a coincidence, it had to raise a few eyebrows when on the same day a local Chinese newspaper reported Mozilla’s interest in gaining a 20% market share in China’s browser market, the nytimes runs a piece about Mozilla’s independence or lack of independence on Google; in response to a question about where funding mi...

Well this is our first post now that the new site is up, we’re at the tail end of the National Holiday week so news is light, which is fine by us as it gives us a few extra days with the training wheels on. So here is a brief wrap up of some of the more interesting stories in the western press this week. Caijing reports that new restrictions on ho...