{"id":7034,"date":"2009-12-19T09:22:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T00:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=7034"},"modified":"2009-12-19T09:22:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T00:22:23","slug":"chinas-best-known-mobile-portal-founder-launches-new-search-start-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/chinas-best-known-mobile-portal-founder-launches-new-search-start-up\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Best-known Mobile Portal Founder Launches New Search Start-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7037\" title=\"Wukong's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Wukong_logo.gif\" alt=\"Wukong's Logo\" width=\"168\" height=\"70\" \/><br \/>\nBeijing-based serial entrepreneur Nick Yang (\u6768\u5b81, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesesavvy.com\/savvy\/content\/people\/nickyang.html\">this ChineseSavvy.com article<\/a> for more about him) got his third start-up <a href=\"http:\/\/wukong.net\">Wukong Search (\u5514\u7b9c\u641c\u7d22) [C, mobile]<\/a> go live in Mainland China.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7038\" title=\"Chinaren's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Chinaren_logo.gif\" alt=\"Chinaren's Logo\" width=\"116\" height=\"63\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7039\" title=\"KongZhong's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/KongZhong_logo.jpg\" alt=\"KongZhong's Logo\" width=\"141\" height=\"65\" \/><br \/>\nIn prior to the third start-up, he founded the popular web portal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinaren.com\">ChinaRen[C]<\/a> for the younger generation in China, and succeeded to sell it to one of China&#8217;s best known portal <a href=\"http:\/\/corp.sohu.com\">Sohu (\u641c\u72d0)<\/a> in 2000.\u00a0\u00a0 After that, he launched a mobile content provider <a href=\"http:\/\/ir.kongzhong.com\/\">KongZhong (\u7a7a\u4e2d\u7f51) [C]<\/a> and got it listed at <a href=\"http:\/\/quotes.nasdaq.com\/asp\/SummaryQuote.asp?symbol=KONG\">NASDAQ<\/a> in 2007.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7036\" title=\"Nick Yang's Portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/NickYang_Portrait.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Yang's Portrait\" width=\"177\" height=\"216\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wukong&#8217;s idea was born in the process of developing ChinaRen, but we gave up to launch it and kept concentrating on adding new features to Chinaren including online alumni address book which makes the users easier to communicate with their ex-classmates. \u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baidu.com\">Baidu[C]<\/a> was still at early stage at that time, and no one knew what Baidu was.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never mentioned Wukong, this is the first time to talk about it.<br \/>\nSocial network services and the Internet search will be two important keys for users to get information they want.\u00a0\u00a0 The mobile search service is entering the era of the personalization.\u00a0 For the time being, Wukong focuses on providing young people with the mobile search, and will launch its PC edition next July.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the interview with Mr. Yang, he unveiled the company was scheduled to fundraise a lot in the end of this year, but he pushed it back to the beginning of next year to get in time with the service launch.<br \/>\nIn competing with other Chinese search services such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/zh-CN\/\">Google China[C]<\/a> and Baidu, he believes Wukong Search will make good results since the mobile search market is still immature in the country.<br \/>\n<strong>Via:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.163.com\/09\/1218\/15\/5QR1289J000915BF.html\">NetEase, Tech News Section [C]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing-based serial entrepreneur Nick Yang (\u6768\u5b81, see this ChineseSavvy.com article for more about him) got his third start-up Wukong Search (\u5514\u7b9c\u641c\u7d22) [C, mobile] go live in Mainland China. In prior to the third start-up, he founded the popular web portal ChinaRen[C] for the younger generation in China, and succeeded to sell it to one of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/chinas-best-known-mobile-portal-founder-launches-new-search-start-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China&#8217;s Best-known Mobile Portal Founder Launches New Search Start-up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,9,23,24],"tags":[636,2014,2585,4132],"class_list":["post-7034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-company","category-new-service","category-news","tag-chinaren","tag-kongzhong","tag-nick-yang","tag-wukong","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}