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Growing with its Baby Boomer Users, Kaixin Launches a Baby Photo Diary App

Growing with its Baby Boomer Users, Kaixin Launches a Baby Photo Diary App

Kaixin, one of China’s earliest Facebook-style social networks, might be struggling to stay relevant, but at least it’s growing with its users. Now figuring that its late-teens/early-20s user-base is all
Steven Millward · · 2 min read
Kaixin Planning New Social App for Parents

Kaixin Planning New Social App for Parents

Kaixin001, which has sort of become China’s Myspace (in that it’s still out there and has a surprising number of members despite the fact that no one ever talks about
C. Custer · · 2 min read
The Story Behind Renren, China’s Facebook-ish Social Network

The Story Behind Renren, China’s Facebook-ish Social Network

Renren, China’s largest Facebook-ish social network, has a long and complex history which probably not more than a handful of people have heard about in detail. I was lucky enough
Willis Wee · · 3 min read
The Rise of Social Media in China, With All-New User Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]

The Rise of Social Media in China, With All-New User Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]

The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Here’s a useful infographic showing where the Chinese web is at in mid-2012,
Steven Millward · · 1 min read

Kaixin Reveals User Numbers, Rising Profit

Sing it with me: Ah, ah, ah, ahh, stayin' alive, stayin' alive... The Chinese social network Kaixin has announced its 2011 results – and despite a rough year that saw
Steven Millward · · 2 min read

DeNA Establishes Gaming Partnership with Chinese SNS Kaixin001

The folks over at Japanese social gaming giant DeNA (TYO:2432) just made their holidays a little bit happier by announcing a partnership with Chinese social network Kaixin001. In an effort
Rick Martin · · 2 min read

Better Late Than Never, Kaixin Gets Its Own Stylish Photo-Sharing App

Two screenshots from Kaixin001's new photo-sharing app, 'TuTeng'. Oh, great… another photo-sharing app with lots of filters. We haven’t reviewed one of those for, like, 24 hours. Yes, Kaixin001, China’s
Steven Millward · · 2 min read

Is Renren Behind a Kaixin-Badged Group Buy Clone?

The long drawn-out battle between Renren (NYSE:RENN) and Kaixin over the “Kaixin” brand-name looks like it might have moved to the highly-competitive world of Chinese group buy sites. Kaixin’s daily
Steven Millward · · 3 min read

As Social Network Kaixin Loses 65% of Traffic, How Did it Lose its Groove?

The web traffic stats site Alexa reveals that China’s former top social networking site Kaixin001.com has lost 65 percent of its traffic in the past 12 months (see graph above).
Steven Millward · · 3 min read

China’s Kaixin001 Launches Group Site Haibei.com

Chinese social network giant Kaixin001 has just launched a sort of subsidiary groups website called Haibei.com. The site is currently invite only, but I managed to track down an invite
Rick Martin · · 2 min read