Posts Tagged ‘Weibo’

• 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 [...]

• Tweeting The Sina Q4 2011 Earnings Call
  Posted by bbishop on February 27th, 2012 at 10:08 pm, Comments: 0

  Sina reported disappointing Q4 2011 results and Q1 2012 guidance. I tweeted the earnings call and have embedded some of my comments below. CEO Charles [...]

• Quick Thoughts Ahead Of Sina Earnings
  Posted by bbishop on February 27th, 2012 at 12:23 pm, Comments: 0

  Sina ($SINA) announces earnings after the close today. I expect Q4 results and Q1 guidance will likely be as disappointing as Sohu’s ($SOHU). At least [...]

• Sina Weibo Trends Manipulated By Fraudulent Accounts?
  Posted by bbishop on February 18th, 2012 at 10:06 pm, Comments: 0

  So claims a new research paper written by a trio of researchers from HP Lab’s Social Computing Lab. In “Artificial Inflation: The True Story of [...]

• 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 [...]

• Tencent Is Going After Sina Weibo
  Posted by bbishop on January 16th, 2012 at 11:42 pm, Comments: 0

  I have written about Tencent’s Weibo efforts in Will Tencent’s Weibo Spending Spree Destroy Sina’s Weibo Profit Potential? and Can Tencent Weibo Threaten Sina Weibo?. My point [...]

• 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 [...]