A report from the Data Center of the Chinese Internet (DCCI) reveals that the Chinese now spend 41% of their time online on social networks, which indicates a major shift in how Chinese netizens are no longerpurely consumersof web content, but are now more open to communicate, share, and engage online as well. The graph below shows a comparison on time spent among the different applications of the Internet in China — online videos, search engines, news, social networks, and e-commerce....

Camera360, an Androidphoto-sharing appthat pretty much functions likeInstagram, has reportedly reached 6 million users globally, half of which are from China, in just 12 months since launch. TechNodehas predicted before that the app, developed by Chengdu-based startup PinGuo Digital Entertainment, can be muchbetter than Instagramwith its robust selection of effects, filters and quick processing. True enough, judging from the user figures, Camera360 has already surpassed Instagram, whose iPhone user base is at 4....

Reutersreports that Chinese police have arrested 36 suspects responsible for the online fraud that transpired on China’s biggest B2B e-commerce platform, Alibaba, last February. The suspects, allegedly in cahoots with over 100 Alibaba employees to pull of the scam, were accused of running a criminal gang that used fake personal and business identities to open accounts on Alibaba.com to cheat overseas buyers. Yu Weimin, an investigator in the criminal investigation department at Hangzhou public security bureau, toldChina Dailythat the suspects’ knowledge of foreign languages, international trade and computer skills helped them carry out their frauds on the company’s global e-commerce platform....

We encounter some pretty bizarre stories here at The Next Web, but sometimes one comes along that just makes us say…WTF? The Global Times hasreportedthat a 17-year old student in theAnhuiprovince in eastern China had one of his kidneys surgically removed so he could afford to buy an iPad 2. The high school freshman – called ‘Zheng’ – contacted a kidney-selling agent on the Internet, who offered to pay him 20,000 yuan (about $3k (USD)/£2k (GBP) ) for one of his kidneys....

Chinese online video giant YouKu, popularly known as ‘the Chinese YouTube’, has agreed to a deal with DreamWorks Animation that will make the Kung Fu Panda film series available through the site’s premium movie service. According toReuters, the films – which have been accused of“twisting Chinese culture”– will initially be available through Youku Premium, its on-demand viewing channel, before debuting on the site’s Hollywood Movie Channel after the paid viewing window has closed....