Windows Phone Marketplace expands to developers in China and India, plus other changes

One week ago Microsoft officially launched Windows Phone 7.5 in India, bringing three devices – the HTC Radar, Samsung Omnia W, and Acer Allegro to the market by the end of November. Together with ... Read more »

A new homepage for MSN China portal

Last week, MSN China launched a new homepage for its news and content portal website. Along with a new logo, the new, cleaner look has the same design as current MSN.com in the US ... Read more »

Rumor: Microsoft and Baidu to reach a search deal in China

According to Business Insider, a Chinese press DoNews.com is reporting that Microsoft is closing in on a deal with Baidu, currently China’s largest search engine, as soon as this coming weekend. According to the ... Read more »

As Microsoft releases IE9, IE6 still dominates in China: here’s why

IE9 was just released this week (you can get it here), and for many there will be a rush to upgrade.  In China, however, it’s a different story. In preparation for the launch of ... Read more »

MSN China partners with Sina.com, resolves Spaces migration issue in China

While Microsoft announced back in September that they have partnered with WordPress.com to migrate all Windows Live Spaces over, those users in mainland China missed out – as WordPress is inaccessible in mainland China ... Read more »

Bing powers eTao.com website search in China

While we wait for word coming from Mountain View on today’s Bing announcements, news is out today that Bing is powering web searches on a new e-commerce website in China. ETao.com returns search results ... Read more »

The China Google rift: is it good for Bing?

Yesterday Google dropped quite a bombshell when it announced that, because of a series of attacks on Google and other companies by hackers trying to get access to Chinese human rights activists GMail accounts, ... Read more »

A Bing boycott? Why not boycott China?

Yesterday in a blog post, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof called for a boycott of Bing, because of the way it handles Chinese characters searches outside of China when searching for politically sensitive ... Read more »

New Bing Mobile app for China (WL Messenger, too)

While we can have all kinds of fun with numbers about search market share in the US, there’s no getting around the fact that Google dominates.  However in China, the search market landscape is ... Read more »

China blocks Bing.com, Hotmail.com, Live.com, Twitter, Flickr

Receiving word from multiple sources, including some of our friends in China, that a number of websites in China are blocked, including Bing.com, Microsoft’s newly rebranded “decision engine”. Danwei.org, P2P.net, and our friends at ... Read more »