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• Don’t Expect A China Announcement At Facebook f8
  Posted by bbishop on September 22nd, 2011 at 5:50 am, Comments: 0

  Facebook will reportedly make several big announcements at today’s f8 conference. Do not expect the company to have anything to say about China. The long-rumored [...]

• Should Baidu Buy Sina Or Another Social Media Play Like Renren?
  Posted by bbishop on September 2nd, 2011 at 8:55 am, Comments: 0

  Zhao Chunming, a well-regarded analyst at Susquehanna International Group (SIG), circulated a note earlier this week in which he suggested that in an ideal world Baidu [...]

• If Facebook Deal Is Dead Baidu Will Need To Buy A Social Strategy
  Posted by bbishop on July 13th, 2011 at 6:08 pm, Comments: 0

  Baidu ($BIDU) has not been able to leverage its near monopoly in search into success in the social web. Baidu’s latest social failure is Baidu [...]

• China Sovereign Wealth Fund CIC Has No Plans to Invest in “Overvalued” Facebook
  Posted by bbishop on July 6th, 2011 at 9:05 pm, Comments: 0

  CIC Says it Has No Plans to Invest in Facebook–Caixin. No word from SAFE, another China sovereign wealth fund, on whether or not it wants [...]

• Should We Care If A Chinese Sovereign Wealth Fund Invests In Facebook?
  Posted by bbishop on July 4th, 2011 at 5:22 pm, Comments: 0

  Last week Business Insider reported a rumor that one of China’s sovereign wealth funds (SWF) was interested in acquiring a $1.2B stake in Facebook. At [...]

• Have Facebook Executives Used The Media To Ruin Mark Zuckerberg’s China Dream?
  Posted by bbishop on May 12th, 2011 at 4:07 pm, Comments: 0

  Brad Stone of BusinessWeek has written a long and glowing profile of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in which Stone reveals that Sandberg and CEO Mark [...]

• Dear Mr. Li: Senator Dick Durbin Sends Baidu A Letter
  Posted by bbishop on May 5th, 2011 at 3:29 pm, Comments: 0

  Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) has just issued an open letter to Baidu and its CEO Robin Li. Sen. Durbin asks the company [...]

• RedTech Advisors Report: The Rise And Stall Of SNS In China
  Posted by bbishop on May 3rd, 2011 at 8:15 am, Comments: 0

  RedTech Advisors, a Shanghai-based advisory firm specializing in China’s ConsumerTech, CleanTech and MedTech sectors, has published an excellent report on the SNS market in China, [...]

• RenRen IPO Shows You Don’t Need Revenue Growth To Be Worth $5 Billion
  Posted by bbishop on April 30th, 2011 at 5:05 pm, Comments: 0

  Chinese Facebook clone Renren is on the verge of a blockbuster IPO. The company recently increased the proposed price range of its offering and will [...]

• Detailed AllThingsD Report Claims Facebook Partnering With Baidu To Enter China
  Posted by bbishop on April 28th, 2011 at 8:42 pm, Comments: 0

  Liz Gannes at AllThingsD has just written that Facebook is coming to China in partnership with Baidu and that the Facebook China will not be [...]