Maverick China Research

Recently we looked at Yeepay's merchant ranking competition. At the time, Yeepay had only been running the activity for two weeks; few merchants had signed up, and many participating sites had not added the Yeepay voting banner to their sites. Almost a month later, more than 300 merchants have signed up and 150,000 votes have been cast.

C2C auction website Eachnet is currently the top vote-getter, but without the voting banner on it. When we checked, it had received over 15,000 votes – more than 6,000 ahead of the next company. As the picture below shows, voters can place one, two, or ten votes:

 

We wrote this month’s Guest Word column for China Economic Review, which has a series of stories about technology and the Olympics:

“The Beijing Olympic Games is to serve as a window to showcase the city’s high-tech achievements and its innovative strength…”

The high-tech focus has been especially strong in the telecommunications and media sectors, which have long been subject to heavy-handed state control but are flourishing due in large part to a steady series of reforms.

But recently Beijing has been forced to deal with several setbacks in its Olympic master plan…

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