With two Chinese Internet firms recently landing the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and with more expected to follow, the US capital market is likely to see an IPO boom of Chinese companies in May. Analysts, however, do not share the same optimism. “American companies blew the dot-com bubble 10 years ago. Now it’s the Chinese companies,” said Zhang Chaoyang, chairman of Sohu.com, a major Chinese portal website also listed on the NYSE....

In a stunning move, Microsoft does not intend for its next generation browser to function on Windows Vista. Accordingto Hitslink, Vista runs on over 10% of the world’s computers, making it the third most popular operating system in the world. It is less popular than Windows 7 and Windows XP, which together control roughly 80% of the world personal computing market. While the move to curtail Windows Vista support from future Microsoft products may be surprising, it is not without precedent....

No more excuses — ‘now’ is always the right time to become a founder For the thousands of talented people facing a global recession, huge economic and career uncertainty, the question should not be ‘Why now?’ but ‘Why not?’ If not now, when? There will always be questions and doubts regardless of economic conditions and other factors that come into play when making life-changing decisions. Even if you are certain that giving up your job and creating a company is what you want to do, or you believe you have found a solution to a problem that could change the world for the better, a lack of confidence or a lack of overall stability can hold back even the most ambitious of individuals....

Despite the fact that it is not an Apple partner, and therefore not able to sell any of its devices, China Mobile now has an impressive 9.5 million subscribers using an iPhone on its network,according to China Daily. The statistic stands head and shoulders above theone million iPhone usersthat use official partner China Unicom’s network. China is one of Apple’s key growth markets and the fact that so many Chinese users go to the trouble of buying devices unlocked with the specific aim of using the China Mobile network demonstrates the appeal of both Apple, its iPhone products and the operator in the country....

When The UK’s News of the World moved behind a paywall last October, more than a few eyebrows were raised. Whilst many would argue that newspapers such as The Times could justify its decision to startchargingonline readers last July – given its leaning towards quality news reportage – surely nobody would pay to access the gossipy tittle-tattle of The News of the World? Well, we don’t have official figures on how many people subscribe to circumvent its paywall, but if areportin today’s Guardian is anything to go by, then it seems that News International (owner of News of the World) has decided against putting its daily publication The Sun behind a paywall....