Chinese mobile LBS user exceeded 40 million people, but...

According to the report from Eguan, Chinese mobile LBS user was 43.38 million people as of the first quarter.

Its number increased 12.76 million people, 41.7% compared to the previous period.


And its active user was 5.85 million people at the same period.

Its number increased 1.6 million people, 41.0% compared to the previous period.


According to the news, the number of 4sq user was about 20 million people, so it can be said Chinese mobile LBS market is moderately big.


But now, the other service provider, such as Weibo and SNS also provide LBS function on their services in China, so LBS provider also have to consider multi service on their service.

It depends on their approach of multi service whether they can continue their growth or not.



Original article => Eguan

Eguan said Chinese mobile internet user already exceeded 450 million people.

According to the report by Eguan, Chinese mobile internet user already exceeded 450 million people as of the first quarter.

Its number increased 5.1% compared to previous period.


And its market scale was 30.6 billion RMB.

This quarter achived high growth rate(21.0%), but especially mobile internet shopping had rapid growth, and its scale was 10.5 billion RMB, it was much same as the whole revenue in 2011.


And now, mobile internet shopping dominate more than one-third of whole mobile internet revenue.

mobile internet shopping 34.3%

mobile apps and services  31.5%

communication expenses  30.7%

mobile ads  3.5%






Large payment companies, such as Union Pay accelerate their mobile solutions, so we have to pay attention to mobile internet shopping as before.


Original article => Eguan

Baidu published the report of Chinese mobile internet trends in the first quarter.

Baidu published the report of Chinese mobile internet trends in the first quarter, so I would like to introduce its summary.

1. The market share by each mobile device company.

#1 Nokia      22.0%
#2 Shanzhai  16.1%
#3 Samsung  10.4%
#4 Apple       5.9%
#5 Huawei     4.6%
#6 HTC         4.1%
#7 Motorola   3.0%
#8 ZTE          2.8%
#9 Sony Ericsson   2.6%
#10 Lenovo    2.3%

Other  26.2%






2. The market share by each mobile OS.

#1 S60        17.2%
#2 MTK       16.7%
#3 Feature Phone  16.1%
#4 Android   14.4%
#5 iOS          5.8%
#6 S40         4.8%
#7 Windows   1.4%

Other  23.6%







3. The market share by each smartphone OS

#1 S60          17.2%
#2 Android     14.4%
#3 iOS            5.8%

About Windows, LinuxOS and Blackberry, it's not written actual number. But I estimate the market share of Windows and LinuxOS are about 1.4%, and Blackberry's is about 0.3%.





4. The market share by each mobile devices.

#1 iPhone            7.9%
#2 Nokia 5233     1.8%
#3 Nokia 5230     1.2%
#4 Huawei c8650  1.1%
#5 HTC Desire       0.7%
#5 Samsung s5830 0.7%
#5 Nokia 6120C     0.7%
#8 Miui mi-one      0.6%
#8 Nokia e63        0.6%
#10 ZTE v880       0.5%
#10 Nokia 5250    0.5%




5. The using status of network environment by each communication system

Although its percentage is going down gradually, but 85.5% of users are mainly using 2G as their means of communication.











6. Mobile internet usage by each time zone.

The blue line is accessing internet by mobile devices, and the red line is accessing internet by PCs.


From 9 to 18, the percentage of accessing by PCs is higher than mobile device's, but it's usage is reversed at night after 20.






Now mobile internet is explosive expanding in China market, and this is proven by this report.

This is the graph that is written about the ratio of increase each mobile internet users and PC's.


Blue line signify the ratio of increase for mobile internet users, and red line signify for the PC user's.






We have to keep attention when the number of mobile user will be beyond PC's :)



Original article => Baidu development center

MIIT said that Chinese mobile user exceeded 1 billion people.

According to the report by MIIT(Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China) published yesterday, Chinese mobile user exceeded 1 billion people at the end of April.

From the beginning of this year, the number of mobile user increased 43.8 million people.

On the other hand, the number of landline phone user decreased 1.36 million people, and the total number of it was 283.76 million people at the end of April.


And the total revenue of telecom industry was 339.05 billion as of April, 72.59% of its revenue was from mobile phone industry, and the rest of 27.91% was from landline phone industry.


Chinese mobile industry will be more and more growing and revitalize in future too.



Original article => Sohu IT

Alibaba still dominate over half share of Chinese BtoB EC market.

According to the report by Eguan, Alibaba still dominate over half share of Chinese BtoB EC market, and their share was 53.3% as in the last quarter of 2011.

#2 is the Global Sources(15.0%),  #3 is HC360(4.2%).



And its market scale was 3.111 billion RMB(0.492 billion USD).

But its revenue increased only 0.8% compared to previous period.

Eguan analyzed its slow growth in the last quarter of 2011 caused foreign market's slowdown, but domestic market is still expanding, so its market will be offering promising prospects.


Though Alibaba is still ongoing negotiation to buy back treasury stock from Yahoo now, we will also have to keep attention whether Alibaba can continue to leave all the other runners far behind as ever.


Original article => Eguan-1, Eguan-2

The scale of Chinese mobile game market exceeded 1.2 billion RMB.

According to the report by Eguan, the scale of Chinese mobile game market exceeded 1.2 billion RMB(190 million USD) as of Q1,2012.

Its revenue increased 10.0% compared to previous period.


And the number of mobile game users reached 189 million people as the same time.

Its number increased 16.5% compared to previous period, and this number is expected to exceed 200 million people on Q2.


Though Eguan also said Chinese mobile game market continue to growth in future, it maybe the truth. That's why there are 1 billion mobile users in China, and the number of this report was only its 20% :)


Original article => Eguan

Tencent V.S. Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]

Below is an infographic that are compared to Tencent and Facebook.























- How old are their company?
Tencent   14 years old
Facebook   8 years old

- How old are each CEOs?
Tencent(Ma Huateng)          40
Facebook(Mark Zackerberg)  28

- How much users do they have?
Tencent     750 million users
Facebook    900 million users

- How much are there active users?
Tencent   170M online users at once
Facebook  530M active users per a day

- Total Sales
Tencent    4.5 billion dollars
Facebook  3.7 billion dollars

- Net Profit
Tencent   1.6 billion dollars
Facebook  1.0 billion dollars

- Listing Financing
Tencent     0.2 billion dollars
Facebook  18.4 billion dollars

- Cash
Tencent    1.8 billion dollars
Facebook 3.91 billion dollars

- Market Value
Tencent     53.14 billion dollars
Facebook  104.81 billion dollars

- Growth rate of total sales
Tencent      45%
Facebook  46.8%

- Growth rate of net profit
Tencent    26.7%
Facebook  39.4%

- Ads revenue
Tencent    0.32 billion dollars(7%)
Facebook  3.15 billion dollars(85%)

- Game revenue
Tencent     2.5 billion dollars(55%)
Facebook   0.5 billion dollars(13%)

- EC revenue
Tencent    0.18 billion dollars
Facebook   few?

- The rate of mobile users
Tencent    50%
Facebook  50%



- Developer
Tencent    300000 developers, 40000 apps
Facebook  1000000 developers, 550000 apps

- Main products
Tencent    QQ instant messenger, QQ space, QQ game, QQ Weibo, Mobile payment...
Facebook  Facebook.com, FreiendFeed, FacebookPlatform, Instagram

- Employees
Tencent     20000+
Facebook   3539

- Entered market
Tencent     China, Russia, Indonesia, India, Korea, U.S.
Facebook   100+ nations


Original article => DCCI Internet Data Center

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Tencent Forms Six Business Groups To Embrace Future Internet Opportunities.

Today, Tencent formally published that they will forms six business groups.

The detail of its six business groups are as follows:

1. Corporate Development Group (CDG)
2. Interactive Entertainment Group (IEG)
3. Mobile Internet Group (MIG)
4. Online Media Group (OMG)
5. Social Network Group (SNG)
6. Technology and Engineering Group (TEG)


In addition, they will set up Tencent E-Commerce Holding Company (ECC), a wholly-owned subsidiary, to focus on managing its fledging e-Commerce business in China’s large and fast-growing consumer e-Commerce industry.


Chairman and CEO of Tencent Mr. Ma published his comment as follows:

“Through the reorganization, we hope to unleash the Company’s potential capabilities to capture the opportunities of the evolving Internet industry. Our goals are: to strengthen our social networking services, to embrace the expanding global online games market, to extend our presence in mobile Internet, to integrate our online media platforms, to nurture our search business, to build out our e-Commerce platforms, and to enhance our capabilities to incubate new businesses. At the same time, we will pool certain of our technology and engineering teams to further develop core technologies and operational platforms so as to better support future business growth.”




Tencent is a one of the biggest company in Chinese internet industry, so this movement bring big impact to the market and their partner too.


We have to pay attention to the trend of their new system making.


Original article => Press Release by Tencent[PDF]

Netease Weibo user reached 120 million people, and became third major Weibo in China.

Netease published their first quarter financial report, and they said Netease Weibo user reached 120 million people, and became third major Weibo in China.

The number of Netease Weibo user was 97.6 million people at the end of 2011, so it user was increasing 10.3% compared to previous period.

At the same period, Tencent Weibo have 425 million users and Sina Weibo have 324 million users, and Sohu Weibo haven't published the number of their users, so it can be said Netease Weibo became third major Weibo in China.


But at the present, the diffrence of Sohu Weibo and big two company is too large. So we have to keep attention their action as ever.



Original article => Tech Web

More than 60% of Sina Weibo active users are mobile user.

Sina Weibo announced their total registered users are more than 300 million, and more than 60% of Sina Weibo active users are mobile users on the mobile event in Beijing.

Sina Weibo has announced that will accelerate their mobile solution last July, its effort might borne fruit.


And they also announced its detail as follows:

1. Active users ratio by mobile OS
iPhone 28.7％　Android 27.5％　Wap 24.6％　Symbian 8.6％

2. The peak time of access by mobile device
just go to work, lunch time, dinner time, at bedtime

3. The average time of using Weibo per a day
60 minutes

4. The access ratio by each region
Guangdong 24%  Beijing 12%  Zhejiang 7%  Shanghai 6%

5. 280000 applications are registered on Sina Weibo, and mobile apps are registered 20000 title.


Sina Weibo also said that they will prepare a community dedicated for mobile application soon.


The theme of Sina Weibo on this event was "connect, growth, open, win-win", we have to keep attentions to their mobile solutions as before.

Original article => TechWeb

Active user of mobile security market in China break through 220 million people.

According to the report by Eguan, active user of mobile security market in China reached 223 million users.

Compared to previous period, its number increased 26.6%.


As I reported before, recently virus that are targeting for mobile, especially smartphone, are much increasing in China.

And Eguan also point out Chinese mobile security market will be continuously expanding in the future too, because of much increasing smartphone users and cloud users.


Original article => Eguan