One could argue that Zynga is like Shanda, except it is starting from the U.S. market.
Shanda said it will remain the majority shareholder in Cloudary after the proposed IPO.
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It's being geared to become Vietnam's Tencent or Shanda, two runaway success stories from China's early start-ups.
In the U.S., Zynga has grown just as fast as Shanda, seemingly coming out of nowhere.
Like Shanda, it is becoming a network too, leveraging the popularity of Farmville among many social game players.
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Tudou faces competition not only from Youku but also other China Internet companies like Baidu, Tencent, Sina and Shanda.
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Besides biotech, gurus were also buying new positions in software companies, most notably Shanda Interactive Entertainment and Epicor Software.
Almost single-handedly, that title made Shanda the single most successful IPO in 2004.
Later, Shanda used its IPO cash to buy other studios and titles, becoming the single largest gaming network in the world.
Also looking to China for its lead, VinaGame has borrowed on the profitable gaming experience of companies such as Shanda and Kingsoft.
"There are other big gaming companies doing business in the territory including Shanda and Netease, " said Piers Harding-Rolls from IHS Screen Digest.
By the end of 2009, Xu had left Renren and took up a post as COO at the online division of gaming company Shanda.
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Competitors include China-based video sites Youku.com and 56.com, as well as other China Internet companies such as Baidu, Tencent, Sina and Shanda, which all have video sites.
Several companies tried to go public in the U.S. earlier this year, including China Auto and Shanda Cloudary, only to scrap their offerings due to dismal investor sentiment.
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Every Internet conglomerate ( Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, Sohu, Sina, Shanda) has a search engine, 3rd party payment team, gaming, e-commerce platform, literature platform, etc.
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While Second Life was struggling to find a business model for success, companies such as Shanda, which were influenced by South Korean game publishers, built thriving virtual goods markets.
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The industry has in the past decade spawned billionaire role models such as William Ding of Netease, Chen Tianqiao of Shanda, and Shi Yuzhu of Giant Interactive.
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China's top home-grown internet portals such as Sina.com and NetEase - both of whom have US stock listings - are slugging it out for domination, along with games developers like Shanghai firm Shanda.
Besides biotech, gurus were also buying new positions in software companies, most notably Shanda Interactive Entertainment (nasdaq: SNDA - news - people ) and Epicor Software (nasdaq: EPIC - news - people ).
He has had a solid success on his second trip to the plate as the founder and CEO of online game accelerator Sichuan Xunyou Network Technology, a company that supports up to 4, 000 online games in an online game market that has spawned billionaires such as Chen Tianqiao of Shanda Games, Ma Huateng of Tencent and William Ding of Netease.
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