In order to reach the second biggest internet market in the world – China – the Yahoo people have decided to launch a Chinese version of their photo sharing website a.k.a. Flickr.
A Yahoo representative from Hong Kong, comments:
The (Hong Kong) traditional-Chinese interface of Flickr will be available later this year.
Some numbers about Yahoo and China:
- They own 40% of Alibaba, a chinese e-commerce site
- China has 137 million internet users
- In the past year (2006) Yahoo only had 9% of the Chinese photo sharing market, other companies with a biggest share include NetEase (43%) and QQ (44%)
Taking in consideration the “statistics” I consider this move made by Yahoo more than obvious!
[Source: C|Net]
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