How many people are online on QQ now?

QQ is a instant messaging service that are provided by Tencent. According to a news, QQ have over 600 million registered users now.

Recently, Tencent provide a interesting tools that can tell us how many people are online on QQ now.

According to this web site, there are over 161 million users on QQ now (CST 20:53:51, 26th Jun), and the largest number ever is 167 million users.

And we can find that this online user is concentrated at east coastal district and a part of south district. It is same as economically advanced district and areas that have many internet users.

I'm looking forward to when this number will exceed 200 millon :)


Source => QQ official website

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

Mobile e-commerce industry in China is rapidly growing.

According to the report by iResearch, the market scale of mobile e-commerce in China was 6.67 billion RMB as of Q1,2012.

Its revenue has increased 530.1% year on year, and has increased 25.7% compared to previous period.


Although first quater is generally off-season for the electronic commerce in China, but its revenue beyond the mobile add-value service, and its revenue was the top share of mobile internet industry.

* mobile e-commerce : 42.0%
* mobile add-value service : 41.5%
* mobile game : 8.7%
* mobile sales : 7.1%


And its market share by each companies are as follows:

#1 Taobao mobile   72.0%
#2 360buy   7.2%
#3 Vancl     2.2%
#4 Amazon China    1.2%
#5 Dangdang   0.9%
Other  16.5%


Mobile e-commerce industry in China is rapidly growing, but it's only early stage... So we have to keep attention for its trend as before.



Original article => Tech QQ

MIIT released "China mobile device white paper 2012".

Chinese government MIIT(Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China)  released "China mobile device white paper 2012", but according to this report, total shipment number of mobile device in China was 455 million units in 2011.

In 2005, the shipment number of mobile device was 129 million units, so it was increased more than 300 million units in last 6 years.


And the shipment number of smart mobile device(*that means smart phone and tablet PC) in China was 117.74 million units in 2011, and the breakdown of mobile smart device shipment number by mobile OS as of Q4,2011 were as follows:

Android  73.99% ; Symbian  12.53% ; iOS  10.67% ; Windows Phone  0.34% ; RIM  0.03%

In the end, this is a ratio of mobile device shipment by Chinese company and foreign company.

In 2011, Chinese company has been occupied 71.68% share of mobile device shipment, and its number was over than 300 million units.


And this report also said we have to pay attentions the further growth of smart mobile device and "Nokia + Windows phone" can catch-up in Chinese market or not.


Original article => CATR

The comparison of smartphone sales quantity ratio in China and Japan.

According to the report by China Market Monitor, the smartphone sales quantity in CHina was 70 million units in 2011. Its ratio of sales quantity was 32% of the whole mobile phone market, and lower 1,000 RMB smartphone accounted for 54% of 70 million units.

And this report also said smartphone sales quantity is estimated 140 million units in 2012.


On the other hand, according to the report by MMRI, the smartphone sales quantity in Japan was 23.4 million units in 2011.

Its ratio of sales quantity was 55.8% of the whole mobile phone market, and its sales quantity is estimated 27.9 million in 2012.


Japan have a lead to China twice in the ratio of smartphone sales quantity, but conversely China have a lead to Japan more than 6 times in the sales quantity of smartphone...


Original article => 1688.com, WirelessWire News