Even with 310millions registered users (vs. Sina Weibo's 250million users), Tencent would never get relaxed. Yesterday, Tencent made the first trial toward the monetization of its weibo platform, introducing eCommerce with partnership of B2C platforms such as...

Sina's Social TV service has been revealed today (in private test still). On Kandian, you can watch online video, TV program and live show; and you can also publish comments about the program and interact with other...

Since online video site, Tudou, just went public only just last week, they have already attracted a US$40m investment from Sina for 4%. It is believed that Tudou will remain independent but it is speculated that Tudou...

Together with Weibi, the virtual currency, the Game Center of Sina Weibo was launched early this week. The first invitation I got was from Season Xu, the co-founder of Five Minutes which is the producer of Happy...

Tencent today officially announced that, its social network service, QZone was to release its new version (QZone 6.0) this summer. No further details were given yet, but after 6 years operation, it seems that Tencent is going...

The question whether there is a bubble in the China internet sector comes up frequently in conversations.  In my views, definitely, yes.  There is a bubble in the sector.  And during the recent market correction, some of the...

Be honest, I have not used any location-based Check-in service, either Foursquare or its Chinese likers for over 2 months. I don’t know why I should do the check-in, for social networking with strangers around you? No…...

Sina’s Weibo (microblogging) service will officially goes ‘independent’ tomorrow. The official announcement from Sina says from tomorrow (7th April 2011), Weibo service (on t.sina.com.cn & t.sina.cn) will be auto redirected to weibo.com and weibo.cn for wap user....