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Major copyright issues have seriously hampered the development of the online music business. What kinds of companies will survive?

Business model is undergoing the Pan-Media trend with a huge media network defined for a segmented population.

The nefarious individuals behind Trojan viruses belong to starfish-like organizations. To fight such clandestine organizations, Zhou Hongyi and his 360 Safeguard team must start thinking like the enemy.

Most of the privately run video websites are now paying for what was previously anarchism. However, for telecom operators, the video business has opened their arms wide.

When online games become the mainstream media, advertisement once again is proven to be the most sustainable and profitable mode of the Chinese Internet.

One Chinese company has discovered how to keep every employee happy.

By taking advantage of the propagation effect on the Internet, individually created virtual images are showing signs of enormous commercial potential.

The usually cautious New Oriental is under increasing pressure to expand and that could mean a few lessons in acquisitions and venture capital.

The Internet is giving financial service agencies a new way of linking financial products with clients.

The introduction of “independent tourists” to the world tourist market has given Ctrip a golden opportunity to dominate the tourism industry.

Taobao hopes to reach a trade volume of RMB100 billion (US$13.3), or 1% to 2% of China’s entire consumer market, in three years. Sounds feasible? How much will Taobao gain from this?

By combining resources, Randv.com has created a hot new business mode - but it may not last for long.

Revenue growth from pay-per-view English Premier League games does not offset the market crisis at hand.

In China’s investment-driven Internet industry, web rankings are starting to reflect an increasing disorderly - and disturbing - trend.

Chinese credit card users are slowly beginning to discover the allure of bonus points - but many businesses have already found great opportunities in them.

Their transition from Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to investors in the Chinese Mainland might make Chen Hong, Zhu Min and Deng Feng a new force in China’s investment industry.

After almost two years of operating in China, Google is taking the battle for China’s Internet industry to familiar territory.

Spam, though a new way of making quick money on the Internet, is devastative for the Internet operation and economy.

Citizen once monopolized the watch and clock market in China, but now the company is under siege by Swiss watch makers.

With new companies constantly emerging, the demand for online game products is booming. The supply of online game products is to become a very profitable business.

To satisfy the capital market’s thirst for network companies’ high growth rates, Baidu is forced to diversify.

In China’s Internet circle, Zhou Hongyi is one of the most aggressive and combative personalities you will ever meet.

Entrepreneurs are discovering new, low-cost ways of tapping into the value of digital content, including novels, music, film and TV.

With foreign investment, Minrun is no longer a state-owned company; and more significantly, the reform of mechanism brought by share holding will surely change its fate.

As competition for resources heats up in the new media industry, you might soon find a free LCD TV delivered right to your door, provided you don’t mind certain commercials appearing on them.

Now, the providers who supply the building blocks for Chinese internet operators are exhibiting their values.

Venture capitalists are beginning to show their preferences for “gene-blended” businesses, which are free from the bothers of other business modes.

While there is a widespread dispute on the online games industry, investors are trying new business models.

Bora Milutinovic,a man who has led five teams from different nations to the World Cup finals,attracted a lot of attention in Beijing on March 22ndhowever,not surrounded by football players, but by Chinese Internet gold diggers.