Michael Kan - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Michael Kan

Article | 15/09/2011 Match.com buys stake in Chinese dating site

Match.com announced on Wednesday it had acquired a 20 percent stake in a company behind one of China's largest online dating sites.

Article | 15/09/2011 Blocked from China, Twitter goes after overseas Chinese

Twitter plans to offer a Chinese-language user interface <a href="http://blog.twitter.com/2011/09/one-hundred-million-voices.html">in the coming weeks...

Article | 15/09/2011 Huawei's MediaPad tablet slated for China release in Oct

Huawei's 7-inch tablet, which it unveiled in June, will be released in China and several other markets in the Asia-Pacific region in October, accordin...

Article | 13/09/2011 Google launches group deals aggregator in China

Google has launched a new portal in China that catalogs group buying deals, a return to activity there after pulling back from its operations in China...

Article | 12/09/2011 China's Alibaba takes aim at Baidu in Internet search

China's largest e-commerce company Alibaba Group entered the search engine business so that China's leading search engine, Baidu, wouldn't sleep well,...

Article | 9/09/2011 Lenovo expects to beat Dell in PC sales by year's end

Lenovo's chairman believes the company will overtake Dell to become the world's second-largest PC vendor by the end of this year.

Article | 7/09/2011 Google says China has renewed its content provider license

The Chinese government has renewed Google's Internet Content Provider (ICP) license, a company spokesman said, giving the company another year to oper...

Article | 6/09/2011 Apple plans to open Hong Kong store later this quarter

Apple plans to open its first retail store in Hong Kong later this quarter, according to a company spokeswoman.

Article | 6/09/2011 Dell partners with China's Baidu to launch smartphone

Dell has partnered with China's largest search engine Baidu to launch a smartphone, in a move that could help both companies tap the country's growing...

Article | 2/09/2011 Baidu's new search page links to apps, social networks

China's largest search engine Baidu has launched a new homepage, that moves away from the traditional lone search bar, to offering a customizable land...

Article | 1/09/2011 Taiwan prepares fund to fight patent war

A Taiwanese research institute plans to create a multimillion-dollar fund to help local technology firms fend off patent infringement lawsuits in resp...

Article | 1/09/2011 Apple offers to talk with Chinese environmental group

Apple has requested a Chinese environmental group to hold talks on a report that accuses the company's suppliers of polluting the environment and enda...

Article | 31/08/2011 Apple suppliers accused of environmental damage

Environmental groups in China criticized Apple on Wednesday, alleging that it is employing suppliers that are damaging the environment and threatening...

Article | 29/08/2011 Software tracking could turn Chinese piracy into revenue

China has long been a major hotspot for software piracy. Efforts to track unlicensed software use, however, are giving companies a chance to find the ...

Article | 25/08/2011 Groupon's struggle in China no surprise, say analysts

Groupon's problems in China, including a recent round of staff layoffs, have come as no surprise to analysts, who hold that the company rushed its pla...