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Here’s our highlight reel of scandals and social media developments on Weibo since it first shook up China’s internet.

Confucius: way older than the average microblogger. WeChat may be the fastest-growing social service in China right now, but microblogging is still huge. But who are the users behind the

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 ($586 million) in the microblogging service

Last Friday, Sina Weibo quietly announced that it would be entering Thailand thanks to a partnership with Thai company Jiaranai Entertainment. Weibo Thailand is aiming to break even within six

VNG just released Zini.vn at midnight March 30th. It’s a new project that has been in secret stealth mode up until very recently. The project resembles Twitter since it employs

One of Vietnam’s few, and certainly biggest, microblogging services, is shutting down its SMS service. Mimo, which allowed users to push updates from the web to phones via SMS, was

China’s web registry regulator, the CNNIC, has today released a new tranche of data showing the size of the Chinese internet landscape at the end of 2012. The report reveals

In September 2012, I stood in front of an audience of over 700 people at Barcamp Saigon and asked “Who uses facebook?” Everybody’s hands shot up. But when I asked

“Weibo” is the generic term for microblogging in Chinese – and when somebody utters the word, it’s usually in relation to the hottest of China’s Twitter clones, Sina Weibo. On