Social Gaming

• 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

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

• Taomee IPO Shows Chinese Kids Are A Goldmine
  Posted by bbishop on June 9th, 2011 at 6:08 am, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits I think I am going to drink heavily tonight. I lost a lot of money, my own and others’, trying to build [...]

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

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

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

  Share on StockTwits Liz Gannes at AllThingsD has just written that Facebook is coming to China in partnership with Baidu and that the Facebook China [...]

• Sinica Podcast: Does China Have A Second Internet Bubble?
  Posted by bbishop on April 22nd, 2011 at 7:05 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits This week we have a good podcast on the high flying Chinese Internet stocks: Interest in Chinese Internet companies has reached fever [...]

• Inside RenRen, The First Of China’s Facebook Clones To File For A US IPO
  Posted by bbishop on April 17th, 2011 at 8:32 am, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits iChinastock.com has created a presentation introducing Renren.com: On April 15, 2011 RenRen Inc. filed for IPO on the NYSE under the ticker [...]

• China’s Internet: The Invisible Birdcage
  Posted by bbishop on February 21st, 2011 at 10:03 am, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits This essay I wrote last year originally appeared in the September 2010 issue of the China Economic Quarterly. Some of the numbers may [...]

• What A Downgrade of Tencent Says About China’s Online Gaming Sector
  Posted by bbishop on June 8th, 2010 at 3:38 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits On Monday evening SIG analyst Zhao Chunming downgraded Tencent from positive to neutral over concerns about its valuation in the face of [...]

• Zynga Acquires XPD Media; Opens Office In Beijing
  Posted by bbishop on May 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Zynga is doing more than just opening a Beijing office, they have bought XPD Media-Zynga Enters Asia With Acquisition Of Gaming Startup [...]

• Zynga Setting Up A Studio In Beijing
  Posted by bbishop on May 19th, 2010 at 9:12 am, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits UPDATE2: Zynga Acquires XPD Media; Opens Office In Beijing. Today Zynga posted three jobs on Craigslist Beijing: [UPDATE:These job listings appear to [...]