Mobile map users exceeded 220000000 people in China.

According to the report by Eguan, mobile map users were 229190000 people in China as of the second quarter.

It was the first time that the number exceed 200 million people, and it was increasing 33.0% compared to the previous period.


About the market share is as follows:

#1 Amap   25.7%
#2 Google Map  17.5%
#3 Baidu Map   17.3%
#4 Tiger Knows  9.0%
#5 Mapbar  8.5%
#6 Navidoc  8.3%
#7 Nokia Map  7.3%
#8 SOSO Map   2.5%

other  3.9%







Baidu Map increased 3.7% of their market share compared to the previous period, but on the other hand Google Map decreased 5.7% of their market share.

Google continue to lose their position in China, but they can catch-up their position again or not in the future... We have to keep watching their actions.


Original article => Eguan-1, Eguan-2

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Tencent Weibo upgraded their business account page to increase their corporate accounts.

Tencent Weibo upgraded their business account page "Wei Space(Micro Space)" yesterday.

In this upgrade, they focus intensifying management function such as tweet management, follower management, page management and so forth.

It can also understand the property of their follower such as age, sex, area, tweeted place, tweeted device and so forth.


And new version can use tweet reservation feature.

Corporate user can set the date, hour, minute and text for tweet as they like.


And its new version has enhanced the function that is related to other applications.

Corporate user can put their pictures and video on their page, and also can put some EC function apps on their page.

Sina Weibo also upgraded their corporate page three month ago, so in this year the battle of getting corporate user will be more briskly in Chinese Weibo industry...



Source => Tencent Weibo "Wei Space"

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Sina released instant messenger tool "Meyou" that is similar to Path or WeChat.

Sina released instant messenger tool "Meyou" that is similar to Path or WeChat.

 

This Meyou also support voice chat, text chat, picture sharing and so forth. But it support only iPhone 4S/4/3GS, not support Android devices at this time. Sina already provide this iPhone apps in App Store.

WeChat that is provided by Tencent already have over 100 million users, and they already provide not only client for iPhone, but also client for Android, Windows phone and Symbian devices.

So how Sina will fight to WeChat or other competitor, we have to keep attention to their action as ever. 

Source => Meyou

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CCW Research estimate market scale of the enterprise social networking will be around 100 million RMB in 2012 in China.

I said that 2012 is the start year for the enterprise social networking in China before, it was proved by the report from CCW Research. They recently published a report written about the enterprise social networking market in China, they estimate its growth rate will be 246% in 2012.

 This report said its market scale in 2010 was 8.168 million RMB, in 2011 was 26.805 million RMB, but it will be 92.752 million RMB in 2012.


Now, as I said before that many company start to provide the enterprise social networking products in China, such as "Crowdroid for Business(Anhui OSS)", "Kingdee Weibo(Kingdee)", "Social Enterprise(800app)", "Tita(Beisen)" and so forth.


Then how about the foreign company such as "Chatter(Salesforce)", "Yammer(Microsoft)" and so forth?

It's no doubt that they are watching for an opportunity to enter Chinese enterprise social networking market.



And this report also said that this market will achieve rapidly growth in this two years in China. Why? Its reason why Weibo and SNS already penetrated to many people in China, and its style is suitable to Chinese habit and preference.


Don't take your eyes off the enterprise social networking market in China in future :)



Original article => Ctocio

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Nokia continue to lose their position in China...

Eguan published the report of "Q1 mobile device sales share in China" as follows:

      Company         2012Q1      2011Q1    　Year on Year

#1   Samsung          20.7%         21.4%            -   0.7%

#2   Nokia              13.6%         32.2%            - 18.6%

#3   Huawei             8.3%           5.5%            +  2.7%

#4   ZTE                 7.3%           4.4%            +  2.9%

#5   Lenovo             7.0%           5.5%            +  1.5%

#6   Gionee              4.8%           3.8%            +  1.0%

#7   Coolpad            4.7%           0.0%            +  4.7%

#8   OPPO               2.8%           3.4%            -   0.6%

#9   Motorola          2.5%            3.2%            -  0.7%

Basically, domestic company except OPPO increase their sales share compared to previous year, and foreign company decrease their sales share.

Especially, Nokia's range of reduction is too much(32.2% -> 13.6%).Nokia was the top share mobile maker in China till 2010, but after Android and iPhone appeared, their market share continued decreasing. 

They already released some Windows phone devices in China, but it looks like that their environment in this market was not changed at all.

Does they Nokia have the next or another move? We have to keep attention to their actions as ever.

Original article => Eguan

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Evernote already got over 1000000 users in China only two month.

Evernote started their service "印象笔记" in China two month ago.

And past only 2 month , their user exceeded 1000000 people, became 1100000 users. The diagram below is a list of similar service to Evernote in China.

"Mknote(麦库记事)" is the biggest service proveider at the moment, and it is provided by Shanda. They started this service on Sep. 2010, and they have 5000000 users at the end of last month.

Second provider is a "Youdao Cloud Note(有道云笔记)", and it is provided by NetEase. They started this service on Jun, 2011, and they have 3000000 users at the end of last month.

Like this "Cloud Note" service just started in China, so we have to continue keeping attention to the trend of this industry as before.

Original article => Chinabyte

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Is Baidu would like to promote "Baidu Space" as their main social media service in the future?

Baidu have a social media service that it's named "Baidu Space".

Recently, Baidu updated its UI.

Its UI looks like "light blog" such as tumblr, and it can be said middle of Weibo and blog.


By the way, Baidu started to deliver a real-named weibo service that named "Baidu Speak" from Sep. 2009, but they already stopped its service less than one year on Aug. 2010.

After that, they didn't do any action for social media field at all, but they are would like to promote this "Baidu Space" as their main service of social media field?

We have to keep attentions to their actions as ever.

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