Posts Tagged ‘Regulations’

• Sina Admits It Has Not Complied With Weibo Real Name Registration Rules
  Posted by bbishop on April 28th, 2012 at 4:11 am, Comments: 0

  Sina’s ($SINA) recently released 20-F filing has an interesting section on regulatory risk surrounding Weibo. The company admits it has not fully implemented real name [...]

• New Registrations For Sina Weibo Appear To Have Fallen Off A Cliff
  Posted by bbishop on February 7th, 2012 at 8:01 am, Comments: 0

  At one point in 2011 Sina ($SINA) Weibo was seeing 20 million or so new registrations per month. Today we learned that the government will [...]

• Chinese Press Reports Say Google China Maps May Be Facing Shutdown (UPDATED)
  Posted by bbishop on January 31st, 2012 at 9:53 pm, Comments: 0

  Grim if not unexpected. Chinese press reports say Google ($GOOG) has not met the deadline to apply for a mapping license and so is likely [...]

• Sina Telling Investors There Will Be No Fees To Verify Real Names
  Posted by bbishop on January 10th, 2012 at 2:12 am, Comments: 0

  Sina ($SINA) has been telling Wall Street analysts and some investors that there will be no charges to verify real names on Weibo, in contrast [...]

• Update On Weibo Real Name Registration And Associated Fees
  Posted by bbishop on January 4th, 2012 at 11:15 pm, Comments: 0

  Time Weekly looks at id5 (北京国政通科技有限公司), a company that verifies real names in China and may the prime beneficiary of the real name requirement for [...]

• People’s Daily Says Sina’s Rise Friday Validates New Weibo Rules
  Posted by bbishop on December 18th, 2011 at 10:46 pm, Comments: 0

  Makes you wonder who the Friday buyers of Sina ($SINA) were. If a rising stock price is important to regulators than perhaps Sina shareholders should [...]

• Tweets About Sina Weibo
  Posted by bbishop on December 17th, 2011 at 10:11 pm, Comments: 0

  I write a lot more on Twitter than on this blog. As Twitter now makes it easy to embed tweets in WordPress I am going [...]

• Translation Of Beijing’s New Weibo Regulations
  Posted by bbishop on December 16th, 2011 at 6:00 am, Comments: 0

  William Farris has done a quick translation of the Beijing Municipal government’s new Weibo rules that will affect Sina ($SINA) and probably other microblog providers [...]

• 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 [...]