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Tencent set to take on Alibaba with 15% stake in ecommerce group JD.com

Tencent, the tech giant behind China’s QQ and WeChat messaging apps, is radically shaking up its ecommerce operations by forming a strategic partnership with…

Life after Koos Bekker: where to next for Naspers?

There’s a quote from outgoing Naspers chief executive Koos Bekker buried right at the end of Sunday’s City Press article that tells you an…

Tencent slide sees Naspers stock take 7% hit

Media and technology giant Naspers’ stocks fell sharply today on the back Chinese internet company Tencent taking a beating on the Hong Kong Stock…

It’s a blue world: Facebook’s empire grows in latest map of social networks

Facebook may or may not be dead to teenagers. If it is, it could certainly be an issue in the future but right now,…

6 big numbers to come out of Naspers’ latest set of results

Over the past decade or so, Naspers has gone from being a reasonably large media and publishing outfit to being an emerging markets internet…

Tencent throws a bone to international users with 10TB worth of free storage

You might recall Chinese internet giant Tencent giving its domestic users 10TB worth of free storage back in August. It was a big deal…

Tencent coughs up $27m for 49% stake in Singapore game company

It’s no secret that Chinese social media superpower Tencent sees gaming as a big part of its future. So it shouldn’t be all that…

Tencent, Activision Blizzard to take ‘Call of Duty Online’ into China

This is interesting. One of China’s biggest social networking powers Tencent has been granted the exclusive rights to distribute Call of Duty Online in…

Sina Weibo drives censorship on Tiananmen Square anniversary

Twenty three years ago today, the Tienanmen Square Protests were put down in bloody fashion by Chinese authorities. Given that the government refuses to…

Facebook fundamentals: Why its share collapse simply does not matter

Facebook’s share collapse has the social network’s strongest critics buzzing, some even going as far as questioning the future of the platform. Are we…

Sina’s anonymous citizen reporting site launches, mysteriously disappears

Sina is responsible for running some of China’s web properties. The Twitter-like Sina Weibo and its native blogging service are immensely popular. Hardly surprising…

Chinese web powers vow to clamp down on rumours

Three of China’s biggest online players are vowing to clamp down even further on false rumours being spread online. Search giant Baidu, along with…

Emerging markets are killing when it comes to mobile social networks

Instagram’s a pretty big mobile social network. A user base now sitting somewhere north of the 30-million mark is nothing to be sneezed at….

Tencent set to expand into search, other markets

Chinese internet giant Tencent is already a dominant player in the online space. It owns a number of chat properties, microblogging sites, social networks,…

Tencent mobile game platform hits 200M users

Chinese social giant Tencent now has 200-million registered users on its mobile gaming platform Mobile QQ Game Hall. Accroding to Marbridge Consulting, the Shenzen-based…

Sina Weibo smashes Twitter’s traffic record over Chinese New Year

The most popular of China’s microblogging services Sina Weibo, saw record traffic over the Chinese New Year. According to Chinese tech site Do News,…

China’s Tencent building cloud-based instant voice messaging service

Chinese social giant Tencent is reportedly building a cloud-based messaging service for instant voice messaging Weixin. Chinese tech blog 36kr, reports the new product…

China’s weibos pass 300-million user mark

Months after revealing that its online adult population had gone past the 500-million mark, Chinese state authorities announced that more than 300-million people in…

China’s Tencent Weibo launches English-language service

Chinese web giant Tencent has launched an English version of its Twitter-like microblogging service. According Chinese newspaper, China Daily, the English version of Tencent…

Evolution of social media in China [Infographic]

Six months ago Ogilvy‘s China social media team created an infographic to show some of the local platforms thriving in place of the major…

Chinese social media’s US$500-million Renren offer to investors

China’s Renren, which launched as a Facebook clone, is eyeing a US listing that could make it the first social networking site to go…

The emerging market social-networking superpowers

There is something going on in China, Russia and South Africa. Via various internet investments and creations, these three countries combined have built up…

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