Chinese online media and mobile value-added services firm Sina Corporation says its profit fell more than 50% as it announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2011. While the company's net revenues grew 20% year over year to USD119.0 million, net income attributable to Sina for the second quarter of [...]

Smartphone maker HTC and the Chinese Internet company Sina.com jointly held a cross-platform brand launch meeting in Beijing to promote the first Sina microblog-themed smartphone product in China. The two companies said that they will cooperate in product development and promotion in the future for their new social media smartphone. At the product launch meeting, [...]

The microblog channel of Sina.com and China Telecom have signed an agreement to implement a cooperation for products based on the microblog services at Sina.com. Under the agreement, China Telecom's eSurfing users, broadband users, and fixed-line users will be able to log onto Sina microblog with their China Telecom accounts; meanwhile, China Telecom will open [...]

Chinese online and wireless media company Sina Corporation says its profit fell on higher costs as it announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2011. For the first quarter of 2011, Sina reported net revenues of USD100.2 million, compared to USD85.0 million for the same period last year. Of that [...]

Chinese social media websites are ablaze today with rumors, photos, and innuendo that at least one non-Chinese employee working for Apple was responsible for hitting customers waiting on line to buy the iPad 2 in Beijing. Though the iPad was released in other countries a couple months ago, it only legally became available in China [...]

Chinese Internet company Sina.com has officially launched a new domain name, weibo.com, for its microblog product, and the company has also adopted a new logo for the social media business. To ensure the normal use of its microblog, Sina.com will run the old domain name and the new one concurrently for a certain period of [...]

A representative in charge of the planning of China Mobile's online application store Mobile Market has revealed that the company's location-based service module is currently finishing its test phase, and will be launched next month. The development module of China Mobile's Mobile Market store is mainly designed for non-technical developers, who can directly create simple [...]

Chinese Internet company Sina.com and Microsoft's MSN China has jointly announced that the two parties have signed a strategic cooperation agreement and formally entered a social media strategic partnership. Under the agreement, Sina.com and MSN China will implement comprehensive cooperation in various fields, including microblogs, blogs, instant messaging, information content, and wireless services. The cooperation [...]

Chinese portal website Sina.com has published its first white paper targeting the Chinese microblog market. The white paper reveals that by the end of 2010, there will be over 65 million registered active accounts in the Internet microblog sector in China; by 2011, the number will be over 100 million. Statistics show that Sina's microblog [...]

Chinese telecommunications solutions provider Huawei has launched its social networking service website Aimi.com which targets Chinese white-collar netizens, marking Huawei's formal entry into the Internet business.
By looking at the settings of this website, Aimi.com's positioning is to satisfy the entertainment demands of its high-level users. The interface of Aimi.com is just like those of other [...]

Chinese telecommunications operator China Mobile has announced the opening of registration of its social networking service website 139.com and the testing area of its website will be extended from Guangdong to the entire country.
139.com is a website operated by China Mobile's mobile Internet subsidiary and the website aims to build an online family of users [...]

Vacationers in China's sunny Hainan province will soon have more opportunity to take their multimedia with them to the beach, thanks to an agreement inked between UTStarcom and Hainan Telecom.
This first large-scale mobile TV system in China will adopt UTStarcom's end-to-end RollingStream platform. The deployment is scheduled to go live on May 17, 2009, as [...]

China Mobile (CHL) has started a semi-secret beta test of its mspaces.net, a Web 2.0 product based on Internet and mobile phone platforms.