A sexual assault case at Alibaba has sparked a new round of #MeToo reckoning in China. Industry observers believe this is a watershed moment for the fight against China's allegedly misogynist tech ind
It was around 20 years ago when Baoli Ma hid in his bedroom feeling helpless and lonely for being a gay man in China. Life has changed dramatically for Ma since then. This week, BlueCity, the gay dati
Renren, which was once heralded as the ‘Facebook of China’ and later became China’s answer to MySpace after falling out of fashion among its core young users, is selling its social n
The social media apocalypse is on us this week. Days after Facebook’s stock took a record $123 billion plunge on a poor earnings report, Twitter’s shares are down nearly 20 percent after
The 340 million users of Sina Weibo, China's popular microblogging service, have been given one week to link their accounts to a real name. The crackdown is being conducted in order to comply with new
The NFL is hoping to expand its presence in China with a new deal that gives social media platform, Sina Weibo – often called China’s Twitter – the rights to live stream select gam
The Chinese government has fined Sina.com and made arrests in connection with an investigation that alleges the site facilitated the distribution of pornographic content. Though China has a well-estab
Weibo, the influential microblogging service owned by Sina, has reportedly raised just $285.6 million in its initial public offering, according to Bloomberg. The service's underwhelming IPO, however,
Sina Weibo, the microblogging platform often called China's Twitter, has partnered up with Alipay to launch a new payment platform called Weibo Payment. Users of Sina Weibo's iOS app can now access We
A fleeting affair between two of China's biggest tech successes has ended acrimoniously after e-commerce giant Alibaba banned sellers from using Tencent's popular messaging app, WeChat.
Pouring $586 million in Sina Weibo gives Alibaba Group several perks, including an inroad into social media and access to the microblogging platform’s data. Not only that, but its new 18 percent
Known as the Twitter of China, Sina Weibo is also infamous in the West for the number of high profile users who have had tweets censored, including Kai-fu Lee. The former head of Google China, who was
Kaifu Lee, former head of Google China and founder of Bejing-based startup incubator Innovation Works, <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/kaifulee/status/303109992024784897">said on Twitter
<a target="_blank" href="http://weibo.com/">Sina Weibo</a>, the Chinese microblogging platform sometimes referred to as "China's Twitter," is finally offering an English-language interface, as <a targ
The last week has been a troubling one for observers of Internet censorship in China, and things just got worse as several bloggers and activists had their Sina Weibo accounts shut down over the past
China-based tech blog <a target="_blank" href="http://www.36kr.com/">36kr</a> has published <a target="_blank" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&h
Chinese economics magazine Caijing <a target="_blank" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Findustry.
Looks like The New York Times' <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/06/25/die-less-slow/">groundbreaking, paywalled deal with Flipboard</a> was yesterday's news: today comes another development for t
Twenty years ago, Zhongguancun was but farming fields and small houses, far from the city center of Beijing. The 'cun' at the end of Zhongguancun literally means 'village'. As with much else in China,
In the West, the battle for the social graph is over for now. Facebook is the undisputed champion. All my Western friends use Facebook, and many are addicted.
"If Facebook is the world's social gra
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