Japan-based Food Photo App SnapDish to Cooperate with China’s Renren
While the biggest news by far in the photo-sharing world was undoubtedly Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram, there’s a photo app here in Japan which is starting to take some impressive steps. We wrote about the food photo app SnapDish (www.snapdi.sh) last year, and today we heard some news from them.The company has just announced a partnership with Chinese social network Renren.com (NYSE:RENN), which will allow Chinese users to share food photos directly to Renren using the SnapDish iOS application. In addition, Renren will be promoting SnapDish to its users ...
Apple Seems to Have Tweaked App Store Ranking Algorithm, Many Chinese Apps Plunge
A report from a Chinese news site suggests that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has adjusted its ranking rules and algorithm for the iTunes App Store in an apparent bid to punish developers who use third-party services to manipulate their apps’ rankings. Apple first tweaked its system last April , making sheer download volume less of a factor in an app’s standing in the store.Looking only at Chinese-made apps, it can be seen that there have indeed been some major shifts this week. The changes have occurred between March 21st and March 26th, ...
Flipboard Aims for 5 Million Chinese Downloads This Year
Flipboard pushed out the iPhone version of its localized app for China last week - and now the startup is saying that it aims to have five million Chinese users on iOS very soon.The iPad version of Flipboard’s Chinese edition launched last December, integrating with local social networks Sina Weibo and Renren. That approach was mirrored in its new release for the iPhone.With that solid base on iOS and a great-looking, well-localized app, Flipboard’s Alvin Tse (pictured right) has told Chinese media that the company’s plan is “five million downloads ...
Flipboard Brings iPhone App to China, and Brings Chinese Content to the World
Back in December everyone’s favorite reader application, Flipboard for iPad, made its way into China by partnering with Chinese internet giants Sina (NASDAQ:SINA) and Renren. And today Flipboard is announcing that its app is expanding to both the iPhone and iPod touch in China.In addition, the Flipboard team is also making content from Chinese social networks, namely the afore-mentioned Sina Weibo and Renren, available to readers all over the world, not just those in China. Users just need to navigate to ‘Accounts,’ and select Sina or Renren from the ...
Renren Launches a Social Travel Platform and App, Wants to Take a Trip
China’s biggest Facebook-like social network, Renren (NYSE:RENN), has launched a good-looking social travel app and site for its users. Called Fengche - meaning ‘windmill’ - it allows users to make a sort of photographic diary of their travels, which friends can then check out and comment upon.Fengche comes with apps for Android and iPhone, where you can create your travel journal whilst still on the move - as indicated by the prominence of the central, green ‘camera’ button (pictured below). A look at the Fengche.com website reveals that individual trips ...
Renren’s Group Buy Site Nuomi Lost $9.6 Million Last Quarter
Group buy sites, group buy sites everywhere, yet not a drop of profit! Yesterday, we were talking about Tuanbao, but today, it's Renren's (NASDAQ:RENN) group buy company Nuomi, which lost over $9.6 million in Q4 2011 according to Renren's quarterly filings. That brings Nuomi's total yearly losses to more than $24 million. Yikes.During the quarter, Nuomi took in over $2 million in revenue, but that wasn't enough to match more than $11 million in operating costs. Renren itself came out of 2011 with a net profit of more than $40 ...
Renren Expands, Adds a Pinterest-like Social Pinboard
Renren (NYSE:RENN), China’s biggest Facebook-like social network, has today launched a social pinboard and sharing website called Renren Plaza. As with the US service Pinterest, it allows users to post up items that they like - typically clothes, gadgets, and random cute things - and then discuss or ‘like’ them.And so Renren Plaza consists mainly of theme-based image boards created by users, such as the ones shown below. There’s also a microblog/weibo element to the site, as it has a system of followers and direct messages that’s separate from one’s ...
Renren Users: Change Your Passwords!
Net rumors today continue to suggest that the massive hacks we reported on yesterday may also have affected social networking sites like Renren (NYSE:RENN). Renren hasn't confirmed that it was hacked, but in speaking to the Dongfang Daily, Renren reps did suggest it was possible that hackers had fished Renren user data out of the CDSN database that was hacked.Some users are reporting they've received official messages suggesting they change their passwords. As of 1 P.M. Beijing time on Friday, I have received no such notification on my own ...
Hackers Steal Data of Millions of Chinese Net Users
Yesterday, the Chinese internet was shaken by the news that IT portal and community CDSN has been hacked and data for its more than six million users had been stolen, including usernames and passwords. Today, reports have it that CDSN wasn't the only site affected.Duowan, a games site, was hacked and hackers stole the data of its over eight million users. 7K7K, also a gaming site, reportedly lost data for 20 million users, and hackers also got info from 10 million accounts by hacking 178.com, another game site. Rumors ...
Renren Takes Its Social Games Mobile, Landing on iOS
The Chinese social network Renren (NYSE:RENN) has released its World War II real-time strategy game Iron Marshal onto iOS - taking it out of the web browser and into iTunes for the first time.It’s actually the company’s second game that has made the switch to mobile, coming one week after the iOS debut of Troubled World.Social games are crucial to Renren in terms of both revenue and keeping a hold of users - which perhaps explains its move into self-developed titles. Right now, it is fending off a fast-growing move ...
Flipboard Coming to China, Teams Up With Sina and Renren [PICS]
Earlier this year you may recall that everyone’s favorite iPad reading app Flipboard was blocked in China. But apparently the GFW ain’t no thang, as the company has made its way into China via big-name partnerships with none other than Sina (NASDAQ:SINA) and Renren (NYSE:RENN).As Flipboard points out in a blog post:ou can already search for and add content in any language to Flipboard. What’s different about the Chinese edition is the fact that the entire Flipboard experience is in the local language, including a curated Content ...
3 Alternative Weibo Mobile Apps For iPhone and Android That Have More Eye-Candy
Like with Twitter, the best mobile apps for firing off Weibo missives are not the official ones that the respective companies - such as Tencent (HKG:0700), Sina (NASDAQ:SINA), and NetEase (NASDAQ:NTES) - make. That's because there are some indie, design-oriented startups making much funkier alternative apps with more eye-candy.Microblogging has taken off in China to the extent that we now see nearly half of all Chinese urbanites in larger cities on Weibo. That’s thanks to the major microblog platforms from Tencent, Sina, and NetEase (in descending order of user ...
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