Why Did Alibaba Invest $586 Million in Sina Weibo?
Yesterday we learned that the rumors that had been swirling for months were true: e-commerce giant A...
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Report: Baidu Acquires Social Video Rival PPS For Up to $400 Million
China’s leading search engine, Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), is said to have acquired a rival social video ...
Indonesian President Now #1 Asian Nation Leader on Twitter (And Has Lots of Parody Accounts Too)
Since the Indonesian president joined Twitter as @SBYudhoyono just 11 days ago, his official account...
Vietnamese Prostitutes Are Using Facebook For Sex-Commerce
Despite Facebook’s stringent photo policy, some things always just slip through the cracks. An...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Says $200M Should Go to Building a Social Network for the Youth
Last month, there was a considerable amount of online chatter about Vietnam’s prime minister p...
Hong Kong’s Zorpia: Is This a Real Social Network or Just a Spammer? [UPDATE]
I first came across Zorpia a couple months ago, when I got an email saying that a friend — we&...
How You Feeling? India-Made Hike App Adds Status Updates and Moods
We saw the India-made messaging app Hike launch last summer and then go global in December. In the f...
Just.me Launches as a Messaging App to Kill Off Facebook, Looks to Asia for Big Boost
Oh great, another messaging app. But now that these are clearly ubiquitous social tools, we’ll...
Alibaba Gets More Social, Takes Stake in Sina Weibo for $586 Million
China’s top e-commerce company has secured what could be the biggest web deal of the year in t...
The Biggest Brands on Social Media in Southeast Asia in 2013 (INFOGRAPHIC)
The crew at Bangkok-based social analytics firm ZocialInc has fired up its ZocialRank platform to se...
With One New App, Every Sina Weibo Post Can Be Easily Translated into English
A couple of months ago we previewed the creation of a new kind of third-party app for Sina Weibo ...
Remember “China’s Facebook”? It’s Fighting Back Against WeChat With a New Messaging App
Once hailed as “China’s Facebook”, Renren (NYSE:RENN) has had a rough few years. First overtak...
WeChat Officially Steps Foot Into Singapore Market with First TV Commercial [VIDEO]
Tencent’s social messaging application WeChat has announced today that its expansion plans have of...
How A Japanese Craigslist Became Instantly Profitable In Vietnam
For startups that are hoping to build products for everybody, here’s a case study that proves the ...
Food App Burpple Featured in 14 Countries in Apple App Store
Singapore-made food app Burpple was featured on the front page across 14 countries in Apple’s App ...
Kaifu Lee: Rumors of Weibo’s Death Are Exaggerated
We’ve written a lot about the rise of WeChat and the danger it poses to Sina Weibo. Last night...
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