Tag Archives: Sina.com

Sina plans New York IPO for Weibo microblog

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HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese internet company Sina Corp. plans to spin off its Twitter-like microblog service, Weibo, in a U.S. initial public offering to raise $500 million, a person with knowledge of...

LinkedIn Rumbles Into China, Seeking Truce With Censors

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LinkedIn is pushing full-strength into China, with a new, Chinese-language service that hopes to attract as many of the country’s 140 million professionals as possible. Unlike other U.S. Internet...

Is WhatsApp Facebook’s Key to China?

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I haven’t written about Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) in a while, mostly because the company hasn’t made any concrete moves into China lately despite previous assertions that it would like to enter...

The Demise Of Sina Weibo: Censorship Or Evolution?

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While China’s social media users are at home spending time with their families for the Spring Festival holiday, the rest of the world is busy trying to make sense of what happened to Sina Weibo....

Apple Removed Free Weibo from its Chinese App Store

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Apple Balla reports that, FreeWeibo, the application Apple had to remove from its app store in China was dealing with going around legal restrictions China has on the microblogging Sina Weibo, which...
    






Sina Weibo’s Censored Images Reveal Fear of China’s Elite

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The photos appear harmless at first sight. And so they are in a way to any decent law abiding citizen of the West. But the fact of the matter is these photographs have been censored by Sina Weibo,...

Sina Launches WeMeet; A Rival to WeChat Mobile Messaging App

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Sina originally made an investment in Hangzhou Kuyue Tech which paid off in the form of WeMeet. This newfangled app caters to the social messaging crowd. People may get the daily news and share...

China’s Internet Went Down by Largest Denial-of-Service Attack

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The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) issued a report regarding the protection of Chinese websites. The Ministry of Information Technology and Industry both shifted into high gear by...