Absence is no barrier: how Facebook is building a business in China
Tessa Thorniley
All kinds of Chinese businesses have zeroed in on the mobile internet sector, as evidenced by the hundreds of small stands and stalls energetically promoting their new services at the 2014 Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC), which took place in Beijing in May. Traditional Chinese medicine sellers, hotel booking websites, carmakers, taxi firms and game developers are all reaching out to customers on their mobile phones. As Liu Chun, vice president of Chinese video-sharing website, iqiyi.com told GMIC visitors: "The Chinese are crazy and passionate about...