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 [...]

Weibo, the microblog division of the Chinese Internet portal Sina.com has announced that it will cooperate with four leading mobile sites which provide mobile phone software download services in China to launch nine new versions of microblog client around the New Year. These new version can reportedly support iPhone, iPad, Symbian, and Android mobile devices. [...]

Chinese online and wireless value-added service media company Sina Corporation announced its unaudited financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2010, and said net revenues grew 12% year over year to USD108.2 million but the company expects lower results in the following quarter. Advertising revenues grew 27% year over year to USD81.0 million, and [...]

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 online media company Sina Corporation today announced its unaudited financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2010, and stated net revenues grew 10% year over year. Sina reported net revenues of USD99.4 million, compared to USD90.3 million for the same period last year. Advertising revenues for the second quarter of 2010 were USD73.1 [...]

Chinese online media portal and mobile value-added services firm Sina Corporation announced its unaudited financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2010, and stated its net revenues grew 15% year-on-year.
For the first quarter of 2010, Sina reported net revenues of USD85.0 million, compared to USD73.8 million in the same period in 2009. Advertising revenues [...]

Baidu Wireless, a service of Chinese search engine Baidu, has signed a proposal letter with about a hundred of mobile internet service providers in China — including Sina.com — on creating a green mobile Internet.
The parties call for joint actions be taken among the industry to purify Internet information and create a green mobile internet [...]

On the same day Chinese online game company Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited announced that Bruno Wu had resigned from the company's board of directors, Chinese wireless value-added services firm Hurray Holding Company Ltd. revealed the appointment of Wu to their own board.
"We highly appreciate Bruno's dedication and contribution to Shanda's fast growth over the years. [...]

After days of rumors and press releases surrounding possible acquisitions of China's beleaguered wireless value-added services firm Hurray, the company has issued a statement about where it stands on the issue.
The statement reads: "Hurray! Holding Co. Ltd. announced that it had received from Best Prospect Overseas Limited an expression of interest in acquiring a 51% [...]

Google China has announced that it has renewed its previous contract signed in January 2007 with China Mobile to continue to provide mobile search support to China Mobile's Monternet.
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, vice president of Google Worldwide and president of Google Greater China, says that mobile search has been one of the strategic focuses of Google [...]

Microsoft (MSFT) and Chinese website Sina.com (SINA) have announced a technology licensing agreement for the Chinese Couplet Generator technology, a natural language processing innovation created at Microsoft Research Asia, to enhance Sina.com's ability to deliver mobile value-added services to the Chinese market.

Chinese telecommunications operator China Telecom (CHA) is considering acquiring the Taiwan-based wireless communications and digital media solutions provider MediaTek.

Chinese wireless value-added services firm KongZhong (KONG) announced the appointment late last week of Wang Xin as its chief operating officer.