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We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #37

Sina Weibo launches Social TV Sina Weibo expanded its Twitter-esque service by launching a Social TV last week. There is no known hardware partner with this service and hence, it is said to be entirely hosted on Weibo.com, tapping on the whole range of social features that Sina provides such as social gaming and a virtual currency. With over […]

Five Friday Facts #36

China leads Asia Pacific in mobile social media usage Research led by Google in conjunction with Ipos MediaCT and TNS Infratest reveals that China has the highest rates of mobile social connectivity in the Asia Pacific region. The study that took place in March 2012 reported that the highest usage of social media from smartphones in Asia […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #36

Chinese social media users ‘happier’ than Westerners Researchers from two universities in Holland and in China studied 46 million posts from Twitter and Sina Weibo. While almost all of the posts on Sina Weibo were from China, 80% of all tweets were from the United States. The study revealed that 79% of the messages on […]

Top Facebook Pages in Asia, May 2012

Socialbakers regularly look at the top-performing Facebook pages around the world. Here is the recent report they have published looking at the Facebook pages in India as of May 2012:

Five Friday Facts #35

Rakuten adds ‘pin it’ buttons to its sites Rakuten, Japan’s largest e-commerce site, has added ‘Pin it’ buttons across three of its services – the country’s largest shopping site Rakuten Ichiba which is also global, international hotel booking site Rakuten Travel and Japanese-focused Rakuten Recipe. We reported earlier in May that Rakuten invested $100 million in visual storyboarding site Pinterest […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #35

Yahoo shuts down Indonesia’s social media site Koprol Two years into acquiring Indonesia’s location-based social network site Koprol, Yahoo announces that the service will be discontinued as of 28th August. This comes as a result of Yahoo Global’s decision to lay off 2,000 employees worldwide. With a 1.5million user base, Koprol was once a strong […]

Chinese puns on the Internet

Welcome to the world of Chinese social media, dominated by those who were born after the 90s, and who speak a Martian language that confuses even the Martians themselves. The situation is fascinating: a 5000-year old language that is continually evolving and morphing within the Great Firewall of China. Beyond the fascination, however, brands and […]

Five Friday Facts #34

Facebook showing solid growth in Japan and Korea Social networking sites are seeing multifold growth in usage in many of the Asian countries. Latest figures from Nielsen/NetRatings illustrate Facebook’s reach in Japan and Korea. According to their new report, Facebook visitors surfing from their PCs in Japan amounted to around 17.2 million in May, a […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #34

Jiepang buddies with Weixin Jiepang.com, China’s largest location based check-in service announced its integration with the country’s biggest social media networking site Tencent. This allows users to log in using their Tencent account giving Jiepang access to a massive 700 million user pool. Check-ins can now be synced into all of Tencent’s social networking offerings […]

Five Friday Facts #33

Sina Weibo begins charging premium users Yesterday, Sina Weibo launched its paid premium service for users who would like extra features such as a more personalised page, voice posts, increased security and other enhanced mobile features. The membership fee provides for 15 of such services in all. After implementing social gaming and virtual currency, Sina […]

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