MelonFriends Targets Overseas Chinese, Combines Twitter, Facebook and Weibo in One App
If you’ve got friends all over the globe, those buddies are probably scattered across not just lots of nations but also several social med...
Although it started as a pretty blatant Facebook clone, Renren has evolved into a full-fledged social media powerhouse. It’s China’s biggest traditional social network, but like Facebook itself, it’s facing increasing competition from mobile social networks like WeChat. So can Renren evolve with the times, or is it destined to go the way of the dinosaur?
If you’ve got friends all over the globe, those buddies are probably scattered across not just lots of nations but also several social med...
Once hailed as “China’s Facebook”, Renren (NYSE:RENN) has had a rough few years. First overtaken by microblogging (with new rivals Sin...
Last year, we learned that social networking site Renren (NYSE:RENN) was planning to diversify its offerings and move into, among other thin...
Tomorrow, as 8:30pm rolls around the globe, lots of landmark buildings will turn off their lights to observe Earth Hour and remind the world...
With an estimated 597 million people active on social media in China, the country’s top 10 sites actually have a staggering 3.2 billion in...
Remember FarmVille, the social game that put Zynga on the map? That was pretty much ripped off from a Chinese game named Happy Farm, made by...
The folks over at Cooliris have been pretty busy of late, recently pushing a new update for its iOS app with support for new services like G...
Let’s step back and take a look at the big picture of the web in Asia in 2012. We see internet penetration in the region has jumped fr...
Renren, ‘the Facebook of China’, has been struggling a bit over the last few years as its users spend more time on hipper (and m...
Shortly after this weekend’s earthquake near the Chinese city of Ya’an in Sichuan province, which has so far claimed nearly 200 ...
China’s Facebook-like Renren (NYSE:RENN) looks set to be the first major Chinese web company to launch a Snapchat clone. Called FeiFei...
One is worth thousands of percent more today than when it IPO’d, while another is worth a mere dollar per share. Oh, the slings and ar...
The social media posting platform HootSuite ventured into China last October with support for Sina Weibo, which is a crucial avenue for soci...
China’s online market is vast and growing at an insane rate – Chinese e-commerce sales are projected to triple from now to 2015 ...
No one would deny that China’s once-premier social network Renren (NASDAQ:RENN) has been losing some of its shine of late. Its losses ...
Perhaps by now, most people realise what is the next wave in the internet industry. It’s mobile. At Techweb’s IT Conference yesterda...