International Social Networks

Renren, after a pretty tough couple of months that’s seen the stock come down from an IPO of between $12 and $14 to around $5 today, has joined other Chinese stocks in some of their best rallies of the year.  Renren CEO Joseph Chen pointed out that mobile demand is boosting the user numbers.  This [...]

Renren, after a pretty tough couple of months that’s seen the stock come down from an IPO of between $12 and $14 to around $5 today, has joined other Chinese stocks in some of their best rallies of the year.  Renren CEO Joseph Chen pointed out that mobile demand is boosting the user numbers.  This [...]

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Despite government crackdowns on social media users, social games continue to grow in China.  Sohu’s (NASDAQ: SOHU) fourth quarter financial results are in, and the largest share of the company’s revenue came from games, which brought in $123 million and showed an increase of 34 percent year-over-year and 6 percent quarter-over-quarter.

Investors have put some serious volume into investing in Renren, the “Chinese Facebook” over the last three days, seemingly identifying the site as a possible social media growth stock that can ride the coattails of Facebook.  Between January 29th and the end of the 30th, the stock rose from around $4 to a high of [...]

On December 13th, 2011, Twitter users all over Japan broke a record by tweeting about during a television screening of Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky — it’s a famous anime that is known by all Japanese and Japanese tweeters tweeted quotes from the show during the entire program.  That was the world record for message [...]

This is a guest post by Christian Arno, founder and managing director of professional translation-services provider Lingo24. It’s hard to find a part of the world where social media isn’t popular. One ninth of the population has a Facebook profile, while hundreds of millions of tweets circle the globe each day. The opening of a Facebook-themed [...]

When people talk about the legalization of drugs it’s usually followed by a rumination of the idea of ‘drug stores’ like beer stores.  What’s less obvious is what would happen online if it was all legal.  Even when it’s illegal, people still use the web to sell drugs, and recently two men in Japan were [...]

Over the course of the last few years China has been running a trial of getting social networks to collect the full real names of all of their users.  Currently on popular networks like the Twitter clone Sina Weibo and Facebook clone QQ, users have the ability to be anonymous.  The government states it is [...]

Pinterest clones are popping up all over the place after the site’s 2011 success, and the sincerest form of flattery is continuing all the way into China.  The new service is called Renren Guangjie, and allows you to simply pin images onto your site.  It seems that most of the posted images come from one [...]

Chinese social network Renren is one of the first social networking companies to have gone public here in America, and while it’s often derided as China’s “Facebook clone”, the service now boasts between 30 and 40 million monthly active users.  In addition to its growing popularity, the site is also home to some of those [...]

Recently, a jailed political activist based out of Iran recorded a 15 minute video and posted it on YouTube.  This is despite the government’s attempt to silence his efforts.  The man, Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, is the head of the Democratic Front of Iran, and uses the video to criticize the Iranian government who are putting undue [...]