Recently, I have been talking with an investment bank analyst about Sina. I asked how he valued Sina’s Weibo (its miniblog or microblog services). He said he will give its portal business 30 times PE or about US$30 per share. Its wireless business about US$2. And another US$5-6 for its other business (apart from Weibo). […]
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LightInTheBox.com will get IPO by year end
eCommerce site, LightInTheBox.com, will get IPO by the end of this year, said an investment banking source. The company was found by Alan GUO, the former CSO of Google China, Xin WEN and Liang ZHANG in 2007. It sells products from China to consumers all over the world. It has customers in over 200 countries worldwide, mainly […]
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Gaming Can Make the World Better – Part 1
I’m far from an expert in the Gaming Industry but recently a fresh element introduced in games have sprouted and grabbed headlines in the U.S. In a short time span of just a few months, more game makers are adding this element to their game version. At this point, there are 3-4 companies to my […]
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New Domain, New Logo, Sina Weibo Goes 'Independent' Tomorrow
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. Launched in August 2009, Sina Weibo acquired its first 50 millions users within first 14 months and it […]
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Hong Kong Start-up, PandaForm Makes Online Forms Easy
For many new businesses, especially small to medium sized ones, creating an online presence is crucial. For teams without the time, knowledge or skill to create basic forms to run day to day operations the task is often daunting and frustrating. Of course there is software available such as MS Infopath or Adobe Livecycle but […]
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Planet of the Apps Asia, 8-10 June Singapore
In the fast moving world of mobile apps, everyone related to it is trying to make that killer app to overthrow those Angry Birds. To help people get up to speed with the latest thinking, technology and meet relevant people, Terrapinn, the organizers of Planet of the Apps Asia 2011, is bringing together the world’s […]
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Shanda invest Rmb 200 millions into its C2C venture
One of Shanda’s subsidiary is changing its business from online game to C2C e-commerce and the parent company is going to invest Rmb 200 millions into the venture, together with 2 other investors. The new venture is headed by Ge Binbin, whose online game company was sold to Shanda in early 2010. Market analysts are not […]
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Mediatek – making a comeback with Android ??
MediaTek Inc., Taiwan’s biggest chip designer, had a tough year last year. It used to dominate the low-end mobile phone market. But its market share dropped significantly last year as its rival, Shanghai based Spreadtrum, launched a stable and lower price product. This year, it is hedging its bet on Android phone. Can it make […]
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Weiguan, the Chinese Qik
Just like Qik which recently got acquired by Skype, Weiguan (meaning look-on in Chinese) enables mobile phones (and webcam) users to record and stream videos in real time. With Weiguan, you can use mobile phones to record the video and get it live streamed anytime and anywhere as along as 3G or Wifi is available. […]
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iPhone 5 Rumor Roundup (Infographics)
Yes, by now we’ve all heard bit and pieces of the iPhone 5, just what are OTHER people saying out there? Here’s the latest roundup that came from the Cecest Gang, a group of talented French artists. The blue progress bars means the likelihood of it happening. Enjoy!