Speakers Corner

June 25, 2009
Open letter to the net nanny and CCTV
Annoyed by yet another effort to block parts of the internet - this time including Google - Beijing-based internet entrepreneur Jeremy Goldkorn wrote on his website Danwei to net nanny, name for the collective Chinese efforts to censor the internet, and the country's leading TV channel CCTV.
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Chijs, Marc van der
Founder Tudou
CEO Spil Group Asia

Travels from Shanghai

Marc van der Chijs arrived last century as an expat for Daimler-Benz, but booked his largest successes as the co-founder of China's largest video hosting site Tudou and now as CEO for the game developer Spil Group Asia.
Tudou came online before YouTube was a success and has now a traffic that equals that of the US video host. By turning to the media sector in China, he took on possibly the most difficult industry in a country where the government trying to keep a firm lit on the media.
In a combination of careful manouvering and sometimes moving fast has put him in the ran ks of one of the more successful foreign business people in China.

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