Posts Tagged ‘GFW’

• Sell Side Analysts Love Sina, New Weibo Rules May Change Their Minds
  Posted by bbishop on December 16th, 2011 at 1:45 am, Comments: 0

  The latest ratings and price targets for Sina ($SINA) per Bloomberg: Kudos to Paul Wuh of Samsung Securities and the Maxim Group analyst, the only [...]

• FT Says Sina Weibo Becoming Less Vibrant, User Warns Of Castration
  Posted by bbishop on December 12th, 2011 at 5:18 am, Comments: 0

  The Financial Times writes in China’s love affair with blogging wanes that: Many heavy users of Sina ($SINA) Weibo, the country’s leading Twitter substitute, told the [...]

• Translation Of Wang Chen’s People’s Daily Article On Microblogs
  Posted by bbishop on December 6th, 2011 at 1:48 am, Comments: 0

  Yesterday’s post on the ratcheting up of the Chinese government’s campaign to manage social media, and especially microblogs like Sina’s ($SINA) Weibo, highlighted a signed [...]

• Chinese Government: “Internet Rumors Are Like Drugs..Attack Creators And Spreaders…Head-On”
  Posted by bbishop on December 4th, 2011 at 9:35 am, Comments: 0

  It looks like the campaign to squash Internet rumors, especially on microblogs (aka weibo), has kicked into high gear. In the last week there have [...]

• Amazon To Launch The Kindle “Fire-Wall” in China?
  Posted by bbishop on October 28th, 2011 at 3:42 am, Comments: 0

  From TheNextWeb: Amazon is hatching plans to release the Kindle in China after the company revealed it is in talks with the government and copyright [...]

• 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 [...]

• Unredacted Wikileaks Cable About The Google Hacking
  Posted by bbishop on September 3rd, 2011 at 8:50 pm, Comments: 0

  Last December we learned that one of the Wikileaks cables contained a claim by someone with high level connections that the attacks on Google ($GOOG) [...]

• 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 [...]