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360quan, as the biggest post 90s online media company in China, has more than 90% of its users were born after 1990. The website has successfully conducted a series of online marketing plans aimed at post 90s users.

China has the most Internet users in the world - 384 million by the end of last year - and there are more than 150 new users every minute. Ordinary Chinese use the Internet for work, chatting, games and entertainment. Increasingly, many also use it to rally around social causes.

360quan the Social Network Site for Chinese teenagers has its unique style that different from other SNS site. 360quan’s focus on creating new friendships through common interests, rather than xiaonei/facebook’s focus of connecting people who already know each other.

360quan, as the biggest post 90s online media company in China, has more than 90% of its users were born after 1990. The website has successfully conducted a series of online marketing plans aimed at post 90s users.

Koolanoo CEO Dan Brody joined the CRI Radio Program and discussed the impact social media has had on the way people do business on the internet, along with Tim Gingrich, the marketing service executive from Weber Shandwick, Dr Jim Jansen from Penn State Information and Science Technology and Eric Porres ,CMO of Lotame.com

Shimao.tv has secured a strategic partnership with the global fashion media group, Fashion TV (FTV), and holds the exclusive license for online and mobile distribution of Fashion TV content in China.
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Chinese fashion website Shimao.tv has joined hands with global fashion media icon Fashion TV (FTV) to announced the first China Top Fashionista Awards on November 4, 2009, in Beijing. The famouse actress Bingbing Fan, Yanfei Shi, famouse stylist Dongtian Li are among winners.

Shimao.tv (www.shimao.tv) is a high-end fashion video website owned and operated by the Koolanoo Group. The website launched in November 2009 and aims to provide the most up-to-date international fashion videos to Chinese audiences. Shimao.tv will provide Chinese fashion content to FTV’s global audiences, helping bring more Chinese fashion to the world stage.

2009-11-4, Koolanoo Group to formally launch new video website Shimao.tv. The launch party as well as the China Top Fashionista Awards ceremony was held in in one of Beijing's most glamorous locations, the Legation Quarter. During the ceremony, Koolanoo Group annouced the strategic partnership with FTV.Shimao.tv holds the exclusive license for online and Mobile distribution of Fashion TV content in China.

"360quan positions itself as the platform for those born in the 1990s: him, trendy and new. It has strong branding on this by promoting the pages of 'cool' kids on the website - for instance those who play parkour, graffiti artists and punks. Its overall alternative aesthetic and the tagline 'young stylish SNS' in the title bar show this."
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360quan’s major users are those who born after 1985 or 1990 which people called post 85s or post 90s. Who win those next China’s biggest consumption group, will lead the China’s future market. Recently，360quan tailored a new member events called “ I am the celebrity”, to provide more value for their post 90 users.

For the Chinese new generation, those people called post 90s. One of the biggest reasons the teen SNS site 360quan is attractive to them is because they like to show themselves, at times verging on the self-worship. They like to express their feelings by using Mars Language which is created by themselves, join the groups which driving by interests. Recently，360quan created a new member event called “ I am the celebrity”, to provide more chances for the post 90s kids to show themselves.

During the 60th China National Day Celebration, IQ launched a new skin version which featured the celebration by using traditional Chinese colour and other elements. Over 200,000 people download it on the first day the version released.

When Google’s ex CEO Kaifu Li is planned his new investment project “Innovative Factory”, Koolanoo Group, the new media investment company that came to China in 2006, has started seen the output. Within 3 years, Koolanoo invested 6 internet projects in China, which cover SNS, Browser, Video website, Internet Navigation website，The Open-platform API and Online Gaming.

This month Kai-Fu Lee, Google Inc’s former China head, launched his own business for young Chinese to get angel funding, advice, and professinoal guidance from Innovation Works. Top Chinese investors Guo Taiming and Liu Chuanzhi have invested already in Innovation Works, which plans to raise 800 million yuan over the coming 5 years to invest in the Chinese internet sector. Kaifu Lee revealed that it's hard for Chinese start-ups to find funding and, more importantly, guidance and mentors, so he expects his peculiar blend between VC and incubator will be more effective in the Chinese market. But there's another company which has been doing this mix of private equity plus incubation for the past two years already: Koolanoo Group.

The light and ultra-low memory IQ browser has been welcomed by users and the market for its unique designs, both delicate and fashionable. No matter if you are an advanced UI designer with unique skills, an omnipotent GUI designer or just a crazy design fan, we invite you here to participate in the 2009 IQ browser skin challeng.

IQ Browser, the ultra light browser featuring individualized interface, log-in capabilities, and changeable skins, has released it's beta 1.0 version. IQ Browser provides lots of personal skin options from the tool menus, by allowing a link to the main site to download a wide variety of skin choices. Other new features include increased reliability, optional plug in add-ons, and internationalized multi-lingual versions.

CCW interviewed Dan Brody, CEO of Koolanoo Group, who said that SNS are transforming into important media outlets. Many websites are acquiring SNS functionality, but the advantage of existing SNS is their huge number of captive users that can be introduced to other services. Since 360quan focuses on a younger demographic, so it's growth potential remains very large as so many new internet users come online in China ever year and most of them are young. 360quan uses the concept of "quan" (or "group") to provide a platform for like-minded people to find each other online.

SVSTA held a forum in Beijing on August 7th to discuss comparisons between Internet startups and social networking sites in China and the West. More than 200 people in the internet industry join the Forum, including Sina, Sohu, Netease, Baidu, Dell, with speeches by CEO from FastWeb, 360quan, Qunar, and others.

With the launches of iTunes App Store, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Nokia Symbian, Blackberry and Google Android market, it seems like everybody's opening their own (closed) mobile application store. Chinese telco operators are planning the same. For social networking sites, the trend globally is for open sites also, with Facebook, Friendster, Myspace all opening up their APIs, while in China it seems that most of the large platforms are closing their APIs to 3rd party developers, including Xiaonei and 51.com. But youth oriented 360quan SNS says they are resolute in their plans to keep their API open to 3rd party developers. And not only that, their high rev share of 80% to developers has attracted lots of attention.

Friend-making SNS website for new generations, 360quan’s open platform has been launched today, and gave the highest sharing rate of 8:2 on the income. According to the new investigation result of CNNIC, it shows that there are more than 175 million net-surfers are under 25 years old in China, which it is more than 1/3 of the whole net-surfers of 300 millions. 360quan.com is focusing on fashion city younger, and this younger is of 85’s and 90’s. Iweb rank shows: 360quan ranks No.3, just next to QQ and 51. The registers has reached 25 millions, daily PV flow-rate is more than ten-million, monthly PV flow-rate reached 300 millions. Revealed that the log-in users at each day reached million, more than half of them could use applications and games. Within the 40 applications, more than 10 are from the first batch of invited third party developers. By inside-testing and adjustment, 360quan is opened to third party officially.

Dan Brody, CEO of 360quan specialized interviewed by Sina Tech during the 7th ChinaJoy exhibition, Yang said, as the 3rd biggest virtual name communities in china,360quan is below than QQ and 51, our main business model is learn from them. I feel that China is much more better than other counties, because users here already established payment habits.

Office staffs work from 9:00am to 5:00pm, acrossing each office building everyday. Besides busy with their work, they will concern another issue: what to eat for lunch? Various of restaurants close to office building are elegancy but expensive, no one can “splash money “that way everyday; dishes are limited if they ask for delivery, and even feel bored after try dozens of times; Although it’s cheap in roadside restaurant, but sanitary condition is so bad…”what to eat” such a small problem becomes to their big worry facing everyday. Most of people start to miss university’s canteen while dinning time: abundant dishes, reasonable price, spacious light hall and classmates laughing and talking together. If someone says: our company’s canteen is hundred times better than that in the university’s, everyone will be jealous of that. It considers a caring and farsighted service that company provide canteen for staffs.

(Employees’ regulation) “We are mature, could behavior ourselves very well”, this is the reason why no work-attendance check system in Koolanoo under the age with punch machine extensively used. In Koolanoo, everyone holds absolutely freedom. Fully-trust between employees, self-behavior and help to each other are the premises. According to the employees’ book, no requirements for the dress, strict duty-time, there is a public address map of employees’ residence, which let everyone know how far other employees lives. This is more humanity than punch machine. In addition, Koolanoo rent two apartments close to the office for over-duty employees or non-Beijngnese employees who has problem on accommodation.