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Top 50 Most Valuable Chinese Brands

Millward Brown released their second annual BrandZ Top 50 Most Valuable Brands. You can get the PDF here or view a summary below (Internet companies are bolded). Baidu, Tencent, Sina, Renren, Ctrip and Sohu are the six Internet companies that made it to the Top 50 most valuable Chinese brands; Baidu (6) and Tencent (10) [...]

Sina Weibo to Compete with Twitter Soon

Techweb reports that Sina is in the preparation of launching an English version of Sina Weibo for US market and could be ready in about two to three months’ time. If Sina does enter US market with an English Weibo platform, it means it will compete directly with Twitter. Weibo in China is very different [...]

Sina Weibo Screen Integrates Microblog with Live Events

Sina opened its Weibo Screen registration this week, which is a great way for live events interactions such as Q&A in conferences and greetings from audiences. If you are interested, you can apply at Weibo Screen homepage. It’s still in beta testing; so, only verified weibo accounts and accounts with photos and over 100 followers, [...]

Sina Weibo Testing Instant Messanging

Sina will launch its instant messenger next week, integrated into its microblogs. Sina could be a serious threat to Tencent in China now.

Sina Weibo Valued at $2 Billion by Mirae Assets

Sina has 87% of the Chinese micro-blogging market by the time spent browsing and Tencent less than 8%, according to Eric Wen, an analyst at Mirae Asset Securities Co in Hong Kong. Mirae Asset valued Sina Weibo at $2 billion; half from advertising revenue and the other half from revenues brought by active users. Sina [...]

Google Ex-president Kaifu Lee offers tips on microblogging in China

At the time of writing this post, Google’s ex-president Kaifu Lee’s tips on microblogging published on Sina Weibo has been re-posted 3,227 times with over 1,000 comments.

What content do China microblog users like? The difference between male and female users.

In total, there are more male users than female users on Sina Microblogs. But, among active users, there are more female users (65%). How are female users different from male users posting at China microblogs? Incitez shared the chart below with data from DCCI: Incitez will share a white paper on the latest development of [...]

Sina Microblogging has poll now

Sina just added “poll” feature for its microblogging platform. Anyone can start a poll:

Tencent Q2 Advertising Revenue Exceeded Sohu

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Tencent’s Q2 online advertising market share increased a lot after a fall in Q1 exceeding Sohu for the first time.

Top China Internet Properties by Unique Visitors in May 2010

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In a recent report released by comScore, in terms of engagement among the top 20 most-visited properties in Asia Pacific, Tencent ranked as the most-engaging property with visitors averaging 6.5 hours on the site during the month, consuming 716 pages of content and visiting the property an average of 39 times.

Sina Blog’s Little Assassin in Feeds

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Chanced upon Sina’s smart “assassin” embedded in the feeds. Take a look at a normal blog post (above) first. Atom OR RSS feeds are not popular in China; not at all though blog platforms like Sina Blog does provide RSS feeds (you can get it from firefox address bar for example) though it’s not obvious [...]

Online Advertising Market Share of Top 4 China Web Portals

Tencent‘s online advertising market share in Q3 this year has increased by 5% to 25% since Q3 2008, catching up with Sohu (30%). Sina is still the leading web portal in online advertising with a market share of 38%, dropped by 5% compared with Q3, 2008. NetEase‘s market share has also dropped slightly from 9% [...]

Google Tops CIIRC’s Latest List of Porn WAP Sites

China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Centre (CIIRC) published the result of tenth batch of WAP sites with pornographic and/or vulgar content; these are top 5: “Google WAP Network” (location: Beijing) “Image Search”, “web search” results “Baidu WAP Network” (location: Beijing) “Image Search”, “web search” results “Sina WAP Network” (location: Beijing) “Image Search” “Sohu WAP Network” [...]

Rumor: Microsoft to Acquire Sina

Microsoft acquiring Sina? Several sources, including TheFlyOnTheWall.com and research firm Wedge Partners, have noted the rumors this morning, although no one seems to have anything more concrete than that.