With an Eye on Mobile Video Viewers, Youku and Sina Weibo Form a Partnership
With an eye to the many Sina Weibo users who access the Twitter-like service via mobile, two of China’s web giants have formed an interest...
Sina’s microblogging service Sina Weibo has been called a Twitter clone, but it’s far more than that. China’s preeminent homegrown microblogging service has a decidedly different feel than Twitter, and despite the fact that it’s carefully censored, it has become the premier platform for important political and social discourse in China. It may not be the most profitable social media site on China’s web, but it it just might be the most important one.
With an eye to the many Sina Weibo users who access the Twitter-like service via mobile, two of China’s web giants have formed an interest...
Japan-made social messaging app Line sees about 70 percent of users outside of Japan, which is a good rate of global expansion. But the most...
The folks at Hong Kong University’s China Media Project have been doing incredible work looking at Chinese media and social media for ...
Jack Ma may have officially retired as Alibaba CEO, but he’s still the guy to talk to when it comes to all things Ali. This weekend at...
If you’re a fan of Sina Weibo but don’t like the idea of your posts swirling around the web for all of eternity, you might like ...
Well, that didn’t take long. Just days after the announcement of Alibaba’s huge investment in Sina Weibo, Taobao advertisements ...
China’s top e-commerce company has secured what could be the biggest web deal of the year in the country. Alibaba, which has been a lo...
We’ve written a lot about the rise of WeChat and the danger it poses to Sina Weibo. Last night, a weibo post (ironically enough) sugge...
It’s only been about five weeks since e-commerce titan Alibaba invested nearly $300 million to take a significant stake in Sina Weibo, Chi...
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...
Yesterday, Sina Tech sub-site Startup Stories posted an interesting op-ed from T.H. Capital CEO Hou Xiaotian entitled “Why is SinaR...
Chinese research firm iResearch recently released its breakdown of China’s mobile market in January of 2013, and that report includes,...
Mailman Group has come back with another infographic about how popular European footballers are on Twitter-esque services Sina Weibo and Ten...
Yesterday we learned that the rumors that had been swirling for months were true: e-commerce giant Alibaba has invested a huge chunk of cash...
A couple of months ago we previewed the creation of a new kind of third-party app for Sina Weibo – one that would translate the mostly...
Last Friday, Sina Weibo quietly announced that it would be entering Thailand thanks to a partnership with Thai company Jiaranai Entertainmen...