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NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire -03/26/12)- The majority of Chinese internet stocks are coming off a difficult week as concerns about China's economic growth stalled an impressive early 2012 rally. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, in his annual state-of-the nation report to China's parliament, forecast 2012 growth of 7.5%. That would be the slowest pace of expansion since 1990 and well down on last year's 9.2% growth rate. Five Star Equities examines investing opportunities in China's Internet Sector and provides Stock research on Baidu Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU - News) and E-Commerce China Dangdang Inc. (NYSE: DANG - News). Access to the full company reports can be found at:

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Before last week, Chinese internet stocks were on an impressive run as a large uptick in social network users is expected to boost profits throughout the sector. "China's Internet stocks, especially the bigger names like Sina and Baidu, still have lots of room for growth going forward," Agnes Deng, a Hong Kong-based portfolio manager said in an interview with Bloomberg.

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Last week, Baidu signed an agreement with leading earth imaging solution provider DigitalGlobe in order to provide increased functionality to Baidu Maps users. Dongchen Zhang, head of business development at Baidu, says, "With this agreement, Baidu can offer new ways for users to engage with the Internet while continuing to solidify Baidu's presence at the heart of China's Internet ecosystem."

Online Chinese retailer Dangdang, the owner of China's largest online bookstore, has indicated they expect increased mergers and acquisitions in China's online retail market primarily driven by increased difficulty in acquiring financing from capital markets, according to Dangdang CFO Conor Yang.

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Chinese Internet Stocks Have Room for Growth

There is some chatter and discussion in the Bing and Yahoo WebmasterWorld forums that an update is happening or started happening a few days ago.

Senior members are taking notice and one said:

At first I thought maybe it was just a hiccup but then I saw additional comments from webmasters and then a thread on a change at Yahoo, which uses Bing's index. That post said:

The issue with this Yahoo post is that this same webmaster is claiming their traffic is up in Bing, which doesn't make too much sense to me. Typically, the results you find in Bing are the same as the ones you find in Yahoo.

In any event, I looked at my own traffic on some sites and there does seem to be slight changes in traffic in Yahoo and Bing and those traffic changes seem to correlate between the two in the same date range.

Here is an example for the past few days on one of my sites with Bing and Yahoo traffic overlaid:

Did you notice an update?

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

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Bing (Yahoo) Search Update - March 2012?

Im sure that most of you know or have heard of Matt Cutts at Google. For those who dont, Cutts is the head of the web Spam team at Google. That is to say, Cutts works diligently to ensure that Googles search results are good and he polices efforts by folks who try to (overtly) manipulate Googles results through overly aggressive search engine optimization (SEO) tactics.

I want to say upfront that Cutts is a nice guy. Sincerely. Thats not me trying to get in his good graces.Cutts helps, in many ways, to guide folks in the proper way to market their websites, and goes out of his way to provide helpful information.

Matt provides information via his blog, provides insight via the GoogleWebmasterHelp channel on YouTube, his Twitter feed, countless conferences, and too many other channels for me to list here. I have no freaking clue how this guy does all of this and manages to have a life.

But, somehow he does, and somehow he manages to be smiling, everysingletimethat I see him. So, kudos to him.

With that said, here comes my beef... At SXSW, Cutts was quoted assaying (emphasis mine):

"We try to make the GoogleBot smarter, try to make our relevance more adaptive, so that if people don't do SEO we handle that.And we are also looking at the people who abuse it, who put too many keywords on a page, exchange way too many links, or whatever else they are doing to go beyond what you normally expect. We have several engineers on my team working on this right now."

Notice that bolded sentence?

This may lead folks to begin the charge of SEO is dead," once again. I really hope not, because this won't cause SEO to flatline.

At the same event, Cutts also said that Google is trying to level the playing field from those who are excessive in their methods of trying to optimize their websites versus those websites who should be rewarded by creating quality content.

Thats my main point.

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How Google ‘Handles’ SEO: My Beef With Matt Cutts

Business cards as we know them are destined for museums. They'll be encased in glass alongside such business relics as fax machines and PalmPilots.

I mean, I appreciate a nicely designed card as much as the next person, but the reality is they're a waste of paper and a major inconvenience--for both parties.

A much smarter solution: CardFlick InstaCards, a free service that lets you build dazzling-looking digital cards with just a few clicks, then share them using whatever method suits you.

I started with the Web version of InstaCards, though it's also available in app form for iOS. (An Android version is in the works.) Using a simple, attractive browser-based interface, I chose a photo to use for my card's background (an optional step), then applied a theme.

Instacards offers about 30 of them, all very fancy and professional-looking, and all making you think, "This looks expensive. I'm glad I'm not paying to have these printed."

From there I typed in the usual personal details: name, company, phone number, e-mail address, and so on. Every addition or change I made was instantly shown in the main card-preview area.

Once I'd saved my card, I could share it via e-mail, Facebook, Pinterest, or Twitter. Even better, once I'd installed the CardFlick app on my iPhone and signed into my account, presto: there was the card I'd made. I could "flick" it to other CardFlick users in the area, or just send it via plain old e-mail.

Interestingly, anyone who receives your card gets not only the digital image, but also details about where and when you met--complete with a Google Map. How cool is that!

InstaCards is free. It's not "free for the first five cards you send" or "only the ugly themes are free"--the whole thing is just plain free. My advice: stop spending money and trees on business cards and try this instead. It's seriously cool, and practical to boot.

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Create and Share Gorgeous Digital Business Cards with InstaCards

Summary: The weekly roundup of Generation Y and student resources you may have missed.

This edition of TeenTech weekly rounds up Generation Y and student technology news that you may have missed. This week weve read about university research budgets, the result of Dharun Ravis webcam case, student monitoring and the future of the digital economy.

1.) Budget: 100m university research pledge for UK. (BBC)

Chancellor George Osborne has announced a 100m fund to boost university research in the UK through private sector involvement. The funding is intended to attract outside investment for universities.

2.) Student found guilty of charges in webcam suicide case.

Former Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi, 19, was found guilty of using a webcam to spy on his roommate, Tyler Clementi, 18, in a charge described as a hate crime. In total, 15 charges resulted in a guilty verdict; including 4th degree invasion of privacy, tampering with physical evidence, and witness tampering.

3.) Thousands of student emails exchanged in data breach.

The Student Loans Company, UK, has come under fire after releasing 8,000 student email addresses by accident. SLC staff emailing reminders inadvertently included an attachment that contained the emails of every recipient which was then received by each of the 8,000 to-be students being sent the original message.

4.) Getting their moneys worth. (Inside Higher Ed)

Lasell College wants 100 percent of faculty members to be actively using the colleges Moodle-based learning management system (LMS). Furthermore, it wants usage on every course in every department by the end of the year.

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TeenTech Weekly: Research pledges, digital literacy, student tracking