Category Archives: Danwei FM

China Businesscast: The casual game trend in China’s online gaming industry

Posted on 2007-07-23 by Robert Ness

Intelligence firm Pacific Epoch’s Paul Waide talks about the trend towards casual games in China’s online gaming space. Companies mentioned include Shanda (盛大), Tencent (腾讯), and Netease (网易).

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China Businesscast: Small companies investing in China

Posted on 2007-07-20 by Robert Ness

Kent Kedl Growing numbers of small- to medium-sized foreign companies are investing in China. Why do they come and how are they faring? Kent Kedl of Shanghai-based consultancy Technomic Asia has worked with more than 600 companies setting up in … Continue reading →

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China Businesscast: ChinesePod

Posted on 2007-04-13 by Robert Ness

Ken and Jenny (pictured right) deliver the Chinese language to your iTunes In this episode I interview Ken of ChinesePod, the language podcast that set the standard for language learning podcasts. Ken explains how one builds a business around a … Continue reading →

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China Businesscast: Tom Doctoroff of JWT

Posted on 2007-03-11 by Robert Ness

Tom Doctoroff is CEO of JWT Greater China and author of the book ‘Billions: Selling to the New Chinese Consumer’.

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China Businesscast: mobile web and marketing with Naviblog

Posted on 2007-02-25 by Robert Ness

Mobile marketing firm Naviblog With about 140 million PC Internet users and 450 million mobile subscribers, people are questioning whether or not the mobile device will surpass the PC as the primary means for accessing the Web in China. Naviblog … Continue reading →

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China Businesscast: Henry Winter of SmartClub

Posted on 2007-02-15 by Robert Ness

Henry Winter, CEO and founder of Shanghai-based online company SmartClub, gives insight into the economics of loyalty points and virtual currency, such as why it is better to make a prize out of a Black Eyed Peas T-shirt than an Ipod.

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China Businesscast: interview with James McGregor

Posted on 2007-01-28 by Robert Ness

McGregor on Xinhua: “We should have driven a stake through their heart ten years ago.” In 2005 James McGregor released his book One Billion Customers, Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China. The book became a best … Continue reading →

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China Businesscast: Republishing Shaun Rein Interview

Posted on 2007-01-24 by Robert Ness

In the last episode of Danwei FM’s China Businesscast, I interviewed Shaun Rein on the topic of strategic consulting in China. For our mainland listeners who couldn’t listen because of internet difficulties, I am republishing the interview using our mainland … Continue reading →

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China Businesscast: Strategic Consulting with Shaun Rein

Posted on 2007-01-14 by Robert Ness

Shaun Rein is the chief executive at CMR China Market Research Group, based out of Shanghai. Shaun believes that the end is near for the strategic consulting companies that depend on the Henry Kissinger model of using personal relationship networks … Continue reading →

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China Businesscast: Mobile Marketing

Posted on 2006-12-22 by Robert Ness

Continuing China Businesscast’s series on the mobile space in China, David Turchetti is founder and CEO of 21 Communications, a service provider that designs and carries out mobile marketing campaigns for consumer brands in China. Mobile marketing in China had … Continue reading →

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