Posts Tagged: Weibo


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WeiboSuite Translates Censored Sina Weibo Posts Into English, Is Awesome

The folks at Hong Kong University’s China Media Project have been doing incredible work lookin...

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  • May 15, 2013
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How Alibaba Saved Weibo and Chinese Society (Maybe)

Jack Ma may have officially retired as Alibaba CEO, but he’s still the guy to talk to when it ...

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  • May 7, 2013
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Chinese Netizens and Their Love Affair With European Footballers on Weibo (INFOGRAPHIC)

Mailman Group has come back with another infographic about how popular European footballers are on T...

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  • May 2, 2013
  • at 8:00 pm
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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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  • April 30, 2013
  • at 9:30 am
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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 ...

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  • April 24, 2013
  • at 3:00 pm
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China’s Net Users Can’t Help But Laugh at North Korea’s Warmongering

North Korea has been in the news a lot recently, both because it keeps getting hacked and because it...

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  • April 5, 2013
  • at 1:04 am
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Check Out the Numbers on China’s Top 10 Social Media Sites (Infographic)

With an estimated 597 million people active on social media in China, the country’s top 10 sites a...

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  • March 13, 2013
  • at 4:45 pm
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Censorship Alert! Academic Study Shows Sina Weibo’s Human Censors Are Pretty Darn Fast

If you wanted to learn more about Sina Weibo’s censorship patterns, today is your lucky day. A...

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  • March 7, 2013
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Is Sina’s Stock Undervalued?

Yesterday, Sina Tech sub-site Startup Stories posted an interesting op-ed from T.H. Capital CEO Hou ...

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  • May 14, 2013
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SnapWeibo: This Weibo Post Will Self-Destruct in 10 Seconds

If you’re a fan of Sina Weibo but don’t like the idea of your posts swirling around the ...

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  • May 3, 2013
  • at 8:45 pm
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Sina Weibo Has Already Added Taobao Ads in Wake of Alibaba Investment

Well, that didn’t take long. Just days after the announcement of Alibaba’s huge investme...

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  • April 30, 2013
  • at 11:56 pm
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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...

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  • April 29, 2013
  • at 10:42 pm
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5 Mobile Apps Chinese Smartphone Users Can’t Live Without

Besides WeChat, it’s worthwhile to remind ourselves of the other mobile apps that the Chinese use ...

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  • April 16, 2013
  • at 9:02 pm
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Kaifu Lee: Check Out My Chart of How Often I Get Censored by Sina Weibo

Despite insisting that he’s no activist and is just keen on debating with his 33.4 million fol...

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  • March 18, 2013
  • at 5:03 pm
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Fuubo: Finally a Weibo App for Android That Isn’t Fugly

As much as we enjoy using the lively (though oft-gagged) Chinese social network that is Sina Weibo, ...

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  • March 12, 2013
  • at 3:00 pm
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Chinese Celebrity Blogger Han Han Talks Weibo, WeChat, and Why User Numbers Are Bullshit

It’s been quite a while since we talked about Han Han. The Chinese writer/blogger/race car dri...

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  • March 1, 2013
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