Tag: Tencent

Weibo User Numbers Slide as Rivals Grow

A new government report shows a 9% drop last year in users of Sina Weibo and other Twitter-like services in China. From Paul Mozur at The Wall Street Journal: According to a report released by the government established China Internet Network Information Center, total users of microblogs in China fell to 280.8 million in 2013 from 308.6 million in 2012, a trend which the center attributed to growing competition from social networks and messaging applications on smartphones.

January 17, 2014 1:49 AM

Tencent: Tech Giant that Can Rival Facebook and Amazon

Asia’s largest Internet company Tencent, which reached a market value of more than US$100 billion last September, is expanding its reach

April 21, 2014 7:05 PM

Rage Against the Machine, or Work Within It?

Reviewing Emily Parker’s Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Jason Q.

April 21, 2014 1:17 PM

Beijing’s Propaganda Crisis & the Rise of “Self-Media”

At The New York Times, author Murong Xuecun describes the erosion of the government’s former monopoly over China’s news diet, and

March 17, 2014 1:27 PM

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