by Simon Cousins | Feb 6, 2018 | China business, clients, tech sector
Allegravita is proud to support our client Neustar, owner and operator of diverse top-level domains including .CO (over 2.3 million domains worldwide) and .biz (over 2.1 million domains worldwide). For three years, at the time of writing, Allegravita’s key focus...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 27, 2018 | China business, tech sector
The mainland China has always been an alien land to practically any business related to IT. For one, being used to piracy, Chinese users are extremely reluctant to pay for anything that is “not real” (software). You will frequently see Chinese consumers buying...
by Matt Johnson | Jan 27, 2018 | China business, tech sector
Forget Internet censorship and cybersecurity for the moment. Contemplate this: China will own a majority of the world’s web addresses in the next few years and likely a huge chunk of its live websites. This is not speculation. It’s reality. Why? The...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 10, 2018 | China business
On June 4th, 2010, a piece of news surfaced on the website of Xinhua News Agency, starting with a rather exciting and disturbing paragraph: “A safe with confidential document inside was put into a special device. All of a sudden it vanished, and reappeared inside...
by Simon Cousins | Nov 21, 2017 | China business
After our article on Chinese business or government meeting etiquette, we were frequently asked “what if the meeting is scheduled around evening time, and the Chinese side proposes a dinner afterward?” In addition, followed by the second article of our...
by Kane Gao | Aug 21, 2017 | China business
This sounds like a silly question. But I have seen somewhere on the interwebs people saying “China has more English speakers than the entire United States population, therefore it’s the largest English speaking country”. I assume the speculation is based on the fact...