Many investors buying Sina are buying it for weibo, which is accelerating its monetizing process after launching its virutal cash and e-commerce weibo platform this month.
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Sina Weibo, which says it has more than 400 million users, has verified Bryant's account.
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So if Sina makes a subsidiary and brings it into the States.
The initial feedback from advertisers on our Weibo advertising is encouraging, and we believe it is critical that SINA continues its significant investments in social media and related initiatives.
It provides services mainly through Sina.com (online news and content), Weibo.com (microblog) and Sina Mobile.
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All of which ensures that Sina will be extra cautious in how it polices its public square.
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Baidu is one of the largest Chinese Internet giants along with companies like Sina, Tencent and Alibaba, and it is also the biggest Chinese search engine.
It is unclear whether companies like Sina will be required to stop unverified users from posting on their microblogs strictly by the deadline.
Not long after the news of Jobs' retirement broke out in China Thursday morning, it became a hot topic on Sina Weibo, China's top social media site.
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When ChinaCache proved it could prevent those outages and smooth out Sina's site experience, other portals signed on.
Social networks buzzed with this news as it spread prompting thousands of posts on the Sina Weibo microblogging site.
The first generation who made it with Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Sina and Renren are moving on to do their second or third startup in China.
The impressive Sina Afra, who is a pioneer of Turkish entrepreneurship, runs it.
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Sina derives most of its revenue from advertising, and we estimate it to contribute over 66% to the company?s valuation.
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If Sina is able to capture even a small percentage of that market, it could be a significant source of additional revenue.
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It also set off a strong reaction on China's Sina Weibo microblogging service because Mr. Buffett is well-known in increasingly wealthy China, which prizes investment know-how.
Another highlight is that in addition to the existing Flyme Cloud backup and phone tracking service, Meizu's also finally launching a much-needed free video and lossless music cloud platform, and this time it's done in collaboration with legit content providers like Sina, Tencent and LeTV.
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It did not name specific company names, but RenRen and the Sina microblogging site Weibo.com are some of the most popular websites in China.
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.
Sina, which officially lists its headquarters in Shanghai but operates mostly out of Beijing, said it was evaluating the impact the rules would have on its operations.
From the domestic media portals Sina and Netease to new upstarts Shangpin, Zouxiu and ihush along with the international players like Yoox, it appears that nobody wants to miss out on this burgeoning market.
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