Taiwan: Bloggers react to the “Anti-Trust press conference”

January 26, 2007 in Blogging, Taiwan, WWW

1/23, three big-heads from two minor Internet companies in Taiwan, Webs-tv and PChome, overtly declared their objection against a shocking merger case–Yahoo!Kimo buying Wretch.cc–and in the press conference,
the two minor online business players showed many market statistics claiming that Yahoo!Kimo in Taiwan has already owned the biggest bite in online advertisement market, and if this merger case passes, Wretch.cc, the biggest blog service provider and the runner-up in the ad market will be another property of Yahoo!Kimo with the price of 700 million NTD(20 million USD).

And right after the conference, the CEO of Yahoo!Kimo, Rose Chao, “cried” out that their accusation was totally unfair, inaccurate, and narrowed.

However, bloggers react to this press conference with different and diversified opinions. Most bloggers don’t treat this “quarrel” between bigheads as “something real” about anti-trust, instead, they viewed this case as several Internet companies fighting for limited online ad budgets but without paying any attention to all of their anti-innovative business attitude which bloggers believed to be the true reason that damps Taiwan Internet business and Web 2.0 phenomenon from burgeoning. And, most bloggers can simply opt for foreign online services in a click-away, many of these services already have or are building their Chinese interface. Switch costs nothing.

The following two links aggregate all major discussions about this press conference in Taiwan blogosphere until now. (Well…they are all in Traditional Chinese)
http://blog.serv.idv.tw/2007/01/25/605/
http://blog.serv.idv.tw/2007/01/26/606/