Posts Tagged ‘QQ’

APAC: 4,000 Fake "Taobao" Websites Closed By July 2010

August 20th, 2010

The Anti-Phishing Alliance of China has announced that by the end of July 2010, the alliance had received 19,817 reports related to phishing websites, and e-commerce websites were the most imitated ones. According to APAC, the number of phishing website reports in the first seven months of 2010 was more than double compared with the [...]


Chinese Internet Shopping Security Alliance To Be Established

December 10th, 2009

Chinese anti-virus solution provider Kingsoft says it will join hands with e-commerce service provider Taobao.com, [...]


China Implements Stricter Management Of Virtual Currency

June 30th, 2009

China’s Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Commerce have jointly focused on the management of virtual money for online games with a new regulation which states that virtual currency should not be used in trade of real goods and services.
According to the regulation, the enhanced management of online games focuses on four aspects: the issuers [...]


Sogou Sues Tencent Over Unfair Competition In China

June 25th, 2009

The Second Intermediate People Court of Beijing has accepted a lawsuit filed by Beijing Sogou Information Service Company and Beijing Sogou Technology Development Company, two affiliates of Sogou, against Tencent and Aldsoft over unfair competition.
The plaintiffs said that Tencent, a Chinese instant messaging and online game provider, blocks computer users from using Sogou’s Pinyin input [...]


Rising: Six Million Chinese Netizens Daily Visit Websites With Viruses

January 23rd, 2009

According to the latest website monitoring statistics offered by the Chinese anti-virus software provider Rising, the number of websites plagued by viruses and phishers recently shows a growth trend and the company’s Cloud Security system blocked 6.83 million visits to websites with viruses on January 20, 2009, alone.


Tencent Suspends Chinese QQ Chat Room

January 12th, 2009

The Chinese instant messaging provider Tencent has announced on its official bulletin board forum that it temporarily closed its QQ chat room from January 8, 2009.


China Launches Campaign Against Vulgar Websites

January 5th, 2009

Seven Chinese government departments held a teleconference in Beijing today and announced that they would start a nationwide campaign to fight websites that spread pornography and vulgarity on the Chinese Internet.


Tencent To Cooperate With Manufacturer To Launch QQ-themed Netbook

December 31st, 2008

The Chinese instant messaging provider Tencent may launch a QQ-themed netbook in 2009.


China Locates First Online Game Theme Park In Changzhou

December 11th, 2008

Online gamers who can’t get enough of their favorite virtual games on their computers can now experience some of those games in real life in China.


P2P Security Firm Focuses On China

December 1st, 2008

U.S.-based technology security firm Arbor Networks is opening a regional development center in Beijing to develop Chinese-specific application protocol classifications for Chinese peer-to-peer and file sharing services such as PPLive, Xunlei and QQ.