SINA–news and information about China

SINA Corporation (NASDAQ: SINA) is a leading online media company and value-added information service (VAS) provider for China and for global Chinese communities. With a branded network of localized web sites targeting Greater China and overseas Chinese, SINA provides services through five major business lines including SINA.com (online news and content), SINA Mobile (mobile value-added services), SINA Community (community-based services and games), SINA.net (search and enterprise services) and SINA E-Commerce (online shopping). Together these business lines provide an array of services including region-focused online portals, MVAS, search and directory, interest-based and community-building channels, free and premium email, blog services, audio and video streaming, online games, classified listings, fee-based services, e-commerce and enterprise e-solutions.

With more than 260 million registered users worldwide and over 800 million daily page views, SINA is the most recognized Internet brand name in China and among Chinese communities globally.

In various surveys and polls, SINA has been recognized as the most valuable brand and the most popular website in China. SINA was awarded “The Most Respected Enterprise” for four consecutive years from 2003 and 2006 by the Economic Observer and the Management Case Study Center of Peking University. In the ‘Internet Guide 2007 China Internet Survey’ conducted by Internet Society of China, SINA was ranked number 1 in user reach in the fields of portal, blog, automobile, sports, news and finance. In 2007, SINA was awarded ‘Top Ten Innovative Media’ and ‘Internet Company of the Year’ by Peking University and MII, respectively.

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The Baidu Story

Many people have asked about the meaning of our name. “Baidu” was inspired by a poem written more than 800 years ago during the Song Dynasty. The poem compares the search for a retreating beauty amid chaotic glamour with the search for one’s dream while confronted by life’s many obstacles. “…hundreds and thousands of times, for her I searched in chaos, suddenly, I turned by chance, to where the lights were waning, and there she stood.” Baidu, whose literal meaning is hundreds of times, represents persistent search for the ideal.

Baidu chose a poetic Chinese name because it wants the world to remember its heritage. As a native speaker of the Chinese language and a talented engineer, Baidu focuses on what it knows best - Chinese language search. Applying avant-garde technology to the world’s most ancient and complex language is as challenging as it is exciting. At least people here at Baidu think so. As having diligently disclosed in the Prospectus of our recent Initial Public Offering, we believe there are at least 38 ways of saying “I” in Chinese. It is important that we master all the ways of addressing oneself in Chinese because our users depend on us to address every one of their daily queries. And trust us, pin pointing queries in the Chinese language is an art rather than a science.

Blogbus–the earliest and most reputed blog service provider in China.

The 5-year-old BlogBus is the earliest and most reputed blog service provider in China. BlogBus.com work to promote the development of Blog culture in Chinese blogosphere.

Blogbus.com has a traffic rank of: 971

Wealink–The biggest Chinese business SNS in the world

Social relations is the people to an essential basis for any activities, today’s society, each person’s social network decides a person’s success and viability. Today, however dramatic increase in the diversity of society, so that the people have become very fragile in community relations. Various social activities, particularly commercial activities also increased by more uncertainty. Consolidate and expand the individual’s social network become a headache. Although the information network technology to help people more easily create information and communicate with each other, but redundant information and false information harmful to the network are spread everywhere, formed a new public hazard.

Wealink.com committed to providing China’s largest online social networking services to help people to build real, honest, reliable contact and evaluation system. This system will be equipped with personal data centre services (PDH), personal social relationship management services (SNS), a credible business information sharing services. In this system, people can secure the confidence of people to share their contacts, information and knowledge, expand their use of trust between the social network, a more valuable communication and collaboration. This system will gradually form an effective social evaluation system so that people’s social capital (Social Capital) can be accumulated, such a system can serve the future of social activities and bring enormous business and social value.

Wealink.com has a traffic rank of: 25,435

douban–discover books, music and people

Douban was conceived in fall of 2004 by Bo Yang, a bilingual book worm, partly out of frustration that he could not find anyone in Beijing to talk about his new English books with. It was decided that a pilot version should be made in Chinese. Douban.com (alpha of course) went live on March 6, 2005, from a $800 home-made server hosted in the cheapest datacenter in Shanghai.

By December douban.com has attracted over sixty thousands registrations from Chinese speakers all over the world, over a million collections and ratings, and over 13,000 full-length reviews. The almost identical English version, douban.net, the one you’re looking at, went on public testing on December 6, 2005.

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Douban.com has a traffic rank of: 905

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