Facebook CEO “Not Exactly Honest” About Free Speech
In a blog post translated at China Change, Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser questioned Facebook CEO...
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LinkedIn Creating Chinese Language Site
LinkedIn is creating a site dedicated to China, its 22nd local language site, according the New...
Dalai Lama on Xi Jinping, Self-Immolation, and Pot
In an interview with TIME’s Elizabeth Dias, the Dalai Lama gave some thoughts on Xi...
Why Weibo Needs to Win the War with WeChat
At Tech in Asia, Charles Custer surveys the stakes in the brewing battle between between Sina Weibo and Tencent’s Weixin (or WeChat). Weibo, he argues, has repeatedly helped local social and environmental issues coalesce...
Facebook, China and Innovation
As Facebook made its stock market debut on Friday morning, and with observers wondering if and when the company will attempt to enter the China market, The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos stepped back from the flurry of Chinese...
Sina Sees 60% of Weibo Users Verified by Deadline
Reuters reports that Sina expects 60% of users of its Weibo service to meet a March 16th real name verification deadline, suggesting that the requirement will gain greater traction than a similar attempt to regulate mobile phone...
China is Asia’s Biggest Developer of Facebook Apps
Although the site has been restricted in China since 2009, Facebook has claimed that China has been the biggest contributor in application development in the region. Despite the government’s internet crackdown, developers...
US Trails China In Almost Every Mobile Usage Trend
ReadWriteWeb reports new research from Forrester which finds China leading the way by most measures of mobile technology adoption. The study found that users in Chinese (and Indian) cities were far more likely than Westerners to...
A Village With Only One Restaurant
Danwei’s Jeremy Goldkorn translates a joke currently being passed around on Sina Weibo and beyond: There is a village that only has one restaurant. Everyone in the village has to eat at that restaurant. Villager: Why...
Censorship in Asia: Against the Tide
The Economist’s Banyan blog surveys the state of censorship in Asia, following the Malaysian Prime Minister’s conclusion that “in today’s borderless, interconnected world, censoring newspapers and...
“Real Names” Policies Are an Abuse of Power
Social media researcher Danah Boyd attacks Google+ and Facebook’s insistence on the use of real names, a requirement which has also sparked protest among Chinese users. Over and over again, people keep pointing to Facebook...
Ai Weiwei Joins Google+; Users Protest True Name Policy
Ai Weiwei has recently joined Google+, having fallen silent on Twitter since his release last month. From Penn Olson: In his first post on G+ this afternoon, at 1:44pm local time, Ai Wei-wei said simply, “Greetings....
Google+ Blocked Before it Opens? (Updated)
Google’s new social-networking site, Google+, which is still in the invitation-only beta phase, has already been blocked by the Great Firewall. From the Washington Post: Just Ping and the Greatfirewallofchina.org website...
China Restricts Popular Report-a-Bribe Websites
The Associated Press charts the swift rise and fall of iBribery.com, a site for logging cases of corruption which attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors, a swarm of imitators and finally the censors (though not, yet,...
Renren Surges on First Trading Day After $743 Million IPO
Renren, China’s largest social networking site, went public today, earning $734.40 from its IPO. Bloomberg reports: The Beijing-based company sold 53.1 million American depositary receipts at $14 each, the high end of the...
The Cloner: Founder of Friendster, Facebook, Twitter and Groupon Clones Profiled
As Groupon squirms uncomfortably in China, Forbes’ Gady Epstein profiles the man behind one of the group-buying site’s highest-grossing Chinese replicants, as well as a string of other high-profile web clones. Wang...
Will the World be Sina Weibo’s Oyster?
In a guest post for TechRice, Andy Mok charts a course toward world domination for Sina Weibo … or at least toward dominance in the non-Western world, should European and North American consumers prove “too...
‘China’s Facebook,’ Renren, Files for IPO
China’s largest social networking site, Renren, is the latest Chinese IT company to go public on the U.S. stock market, CNN reports: Renren said in its filing that it is the leading social networking site as measured by...
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