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a:c on M.I.T. Tech Review - Shanghai -- Once Again -- Is a Thriving Center of Business

This week's a:c trend exclusive at TechnologyReview.com:

Shanghai -- Once Again -- Is a Thriving Center of Business

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The successful IPO of the Chinese search engine Baidu, mentioned here two weeks ago, has drawn renewed attention to the growing number of tech-related investment opportunities in China. With companies like Yahoo joining the rush earlier this month, by investing $1 billion in Hangzhou-based search engine Alibaba, the drum beat grows louder.

With increasing frequency, we are encountering companies like 99bill.com, a Shanghai-based e-commerce infrastructure company that offers an e-mail and mobile phone online payment platform. On August 11, 99bill.com received an undisclosed Series A round of venture funding led by Doll Capital Management and Peninsula Capital. The company claims that Internet-based transactions reached $2.8 billion in China in 2004. It hopes to facilitate the growth of this market going forward by making transactions easy to complete on the Internet.

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