| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.12.2024 | Глава «Газпром‑медиа»: рост Rutube не стоит связывать только с замедлением YouTube | Рост популярности национального видеохостинга Rutube связан как с замедлением работы YouTube, так и с технологическим развитием отечественной видеоплатформы. Об это заявил ТАСС генеральный директор холдинга «Газпром‑медиа», которому принадл... |
| 08.10.2021 | Reid Collins Announces $300 Million Settlement in Renren Derivative Litigation Benefitting Minority Shareholders | NEW YORK, Oct. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Litigation powerhouse Reid Collins & Tsai LLP today announced the terms of a direct pay cash settlement totaling at least $300 million and resolving the In re Renren, Inc. Derivative Litigation (NYS... |
| 12.11.2020 | How China’s Control of Information is a Cyber Weakness | In 2015, news broke that Chinese hackers had breached computer networks at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, exposing the personal data of millions of government employees. In response, the White House took the initiative to improve ... |
| 03.01.2018 | Of course China’s forgotten social network is doing an ICO | ICOs were one of the breakthroughs in the tech industry in 2017. Initially it was just those in the blockchain space who were aware, but as the year went on a number of existing business grew attracted to the idea of raising money without t... |
| 24.12.2015 | Fundrise’s Ben Miller Reveals How He Raised $27M Through LinkedIn | This week, co-founder of Fundrise, Ben Miller, wrote a piece for Forbes about how Chinese social media site Renren‘s COO, James Liu, offered up $27 million through the social media platform for professionals, LinkedIn.
Miller shared in the ... |
| 27.10.2015 | China’s Social Network Renren Completes Additional $150M Preferred Stock Investment in SoFi | Renren Inc. (NYSE: RENN) (“Renren” or the “Company”), a real-name social networking internet platform in China, announced on Tuesday it has completed an additional $150 million preferred stock investment in Social Finance Inc. (“SoFi”), a S... |
| 05.10.2015 | Open Letter to RenRen Highlights Potential Value of Fintech Investments | RenRen is a publicly traded company that is listed (ADRs) on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:RENN). The company is making an attempt to go private and has an offer on the table to buy-out shareholders at a price of $4.20 per share.
RenRen... |
| 09.07.2015 | Cloud-based Physical Security Startup Octopus Raises $2.5M From Singulariteam | Octopus, a Tel Aviv startup that makes cloud-based physical security systems for large facilities, has raised $2.5 million from Singulariteam.
The company will use the funds to expand in the U.S. and Asia. In China, its growth plans will be... |
| 19.05.2015 | Stox Gets $8M Series A To Make Equities Trading More Accessible | Stox is an online broker that wants to make trading stocks less mystifying for new investors. The London-based company announced that it has raised an $8 million Series A round led by Singulariteam.
The site is currently in beta in the U.K.... |
| 05.03.2015 | Trucker Path Raises $1.5M From Renren To Help Truckers Truck Better | Trucker Path is a mobile app that helps truckers find truck stops, parking spots, rest areas, scales, DOT weigh stations, truck washes and more. At first, this may sound pretty banal, but the company has bigger plans that go far beyond thes... |
| 14.11.2014 | Yik Yak Is Close To Closing On Roughly $75 Million | Thank the kids in America for turning Yik Yak into the newest technology craze that’s a parental nightmare and an anonymous messaging juggernaut. Only a year after its launch, the app is now close to closing on roughly $75 million in new fi... |
| 30.06.2014 | Anonymous Social Messaging Discovers That Location Matters | Apparently secrets are better if you share them with those closest to you — geographically.
As anonymous social networks proliferate, they’re increasingly turning to location-based features as a way to keep users coming back.
For example, l... |
| 09.07.2013 | Cooliris Continues Push Into China and Russia, Shaking Hands With Tencent and Yandex | Photo-sharing startup Cooliris is continuing its push into two of the world’s biggest Internet markets, China and Russia.
The Kleiner Perkins-backed company has just partnered with Tencent in China to pull images from Tencent’s microbloggin... |
| 16.04.2013 | Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley | China has the biggest Venture Capital industry outside the U.S.
I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese andChinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share wh... |
| 05.12.2012 | The Lives Of Others: Civo Gives Strangers A Friendly Place For “Visual Conversation” | Civo is a beautiful new social discovery app that breaks users out of their social or geographic networks without forcing them to leave their comfort zones. It went live last week and is available for free in the iOS App Store (an Android v... |
| 12.07.2012 | Viki Climbs The Great Firewall, Signs With ‘China’s Facebook’ Renren For Its First Video Distribution Deal In The Country | Online video site Viki has made a big business out of aggregating content from around the world, covering 150+ languages in all, and making it accessible to all by crowdsourcing translations from its community of users. Now that pool of vie... |
| 08.05.2012 | As venture capitalists turn their backs on China, funding dries up | Venture capital investment is hitting the skids in China, the world’s largest Internet market.
VC investment fell to its lowest level in six years this quarter, as reported by Dow Jones VentureSource. A slew of unprofitable companies going ... |
| 08.05.2012 | As venture capitalists turn their backs on China, funding dries up | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Venture capital investment is hitting the skids i... |
| 27.12.2011 | A Geek’s Guide to China’s Silicon Valley | Editor’s note: Contributor Kai Lukoff is based in Beijing and is co-founder of the startup blog TechRice.
Twenty years ago, Zhongguancun was but farming fields and small houses, far from the city center of Beijing. The ‘cun’ at the end of Z... |
| 22.12.2011 | Tencent vs. Sina: The Fight for China’s Social Graph | Editor’s note: Contributor Kai Lukoff is a Beijing-based writer who is the founder of startup blog Techrice.
In the West, the battle for the social graph is over for now. Facebook is the undisputed champion. All my Western friends use Faceb... |
| 26.09.2011 | Chinese Social Network Renren Buys Video Sharing Site 56.com For $80 Million | Chinese social network Renren has purchased China-based video and photo sharing site 56.com.The deal size is around $80 million, according to a release.
Founded in 2005, 56.com is a Chinese video sharing site where users can upload, view an... |
| 18.05.2011 | PopCap games takes Plants vs Zombies to China’s biggest social network | PopCap Games has developed the first-ever social adaptation of its Plants vs. Zombies game for China’s Renren social networking site.
Plants vs Zombies has been a huge hit for PopCap around the world on a variety of platforms. But the launc... |
| 04.05.2011 | Chinese Social Network Renren Prices $743M IPO At $14 Per Share, At High End Of Range | Chinese social network Renren has priced its its initial public offering of shares at $14 per share, with a total offering size of $743.4 million. The price per share falls into the high range that the Street expected, which was $12 to $14 ... |
| 04.05.2011 | Renren IPO raises $743 million | The first social networking site to go public in the United States sees its shares surge to $24
Chinese social networking website Renren went public on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, raising $743 million for the Beijing-based com... |
| 08.04.2011 | From The Rumor Mill: Facebook Plans To Enter China Through Major Partnership(s) | Facebook, as I’m sure you know, is blocked in China.
And being banned in a country that boasts roughly 500,000,000 Internet users is, of course, not exactly an ideal situation for a company aggressively looking for growth worldwide.
Now Fac... |
| 06.08.2010 | Copying is not the future of social games, unless you’re a Chinese social network | Though copying of both foreign-made and Chinese-made games is rampant in China’s social games industry today, that’s not what will drive the industry forward.
Liu Jian, chief operating officer of Oak Pacific Interactive, owners of the popul... |
| 06.08.2010 | Copying is not the future of social games, unless you’re a Chinese social network | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Though copying of both foreign-made and Chinese-made games is rampant in China’s social games industry today, that’s not what will driv... |
| 27.06.2010 | Making Sense of China's 100+ Groupon Clones | This is a guest post by Gang Lu, a Shanghai-based blogger and consultant. His blog mobinode.com covers the Chinese and Asian Web industry, and he also co-founded OpenWeb.Asia workgroup and KUUKIE.com.
Twitter hit $1 billion valuation within... |
| 07.04.2010 | China’s top four social networks: RenRen, Kaixin001, Qzone, and 51.com | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Facebook is a non-entity in China, but the countr... |
| 07.04.2010 | China’s top four social networks: RenRen, Kaixin001, Qzone, and 51.com | Facebook is a non-entity in China, but the country is chock full of social networking fans who belong to four different social sites.
The actual Facebook.com is blocked by government censors (Chinese sites all obediently and quickly remove ... |
| 25.03.2010 | China’s Social Gaming Landscape: What’s Coming Next | It’s no longer a secret that China’s online gaming industry is booming, and growth is set to continue with companies such as Shanda Games, Netease and The9 leading the way. In 2009, China’s online gaming industry earned nearly $4 billion, g... |
| 28.01.2010 | Never Mind the Valley: Here’s Beijing | It’s Data Privacy Day and when it comes to generating privacy-related buzz in the blogosphere, there are few governments as controversial as China. From Google’s recent security issues, to blocked social media sites to the proposed Green Da... |
| 29.10.2009 | China’s growing addiction: online farming games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
A new agrarian revolution has occured in China, but only in the virtual worlds of social games. Social farm games now dominate all majo... |
| 29.10.2009 | China’s growing addiction: online farming games | A new agrarian revolution has occured in China, but only in the virtual worlds of social games. Social farm games now dominate all major Chinese social networking sites — RenRen (formerly Xiaonei), Kaixin001, 51.com, and QQ’s QZone. The May... |
