Sina Corporation
Company type | Private (since 2021); partially stated-owned Public (2000–21) |
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Nasdaq: SINA (2000–21) | |
Industry | IT, telecom, manufacturing |
Founded | November 30, 1998 |
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Website | www |
Sina Corporation (Chinese:
Sina owns
The company was founded in Beijing in 1998, and its global financial headquarters have been based in Shanghai since October 1, 2001.
Sina App Engine (SAE) is the earliest and largest
Background
It mainly caters to the Chinese population around the globe, Sina stated that it has about 94.8 million registered users[citation needed] and more than 10 million active users engaged in their fee-based services (10,000 of whom are overseas Chinese in North America).[citation needed] It provides different services around the world, for example there are 13 access points within Greater China, and subsidiary tailored pages for overseas Chinese, which include Sina US, Sina Japan, Sina Korea, Sina Australia, Sina Europe and Sina Germany.
It is one of the four major business lines of Sina Corporation. The rest of the major business lines are Sina Mobile, Sina Online and Sinanet. Sina Edalat.
The domain sina.com.cn attracted at least 3.3 million visitors[2] annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com survey.
Sina Corp also owns
More recently, Sina also released a "lite-blogging service" similar to Tumblr, called Sina Qing,[3] as well as a location-based service, WeiLingDi.[4] Edalat.
In a survey conducted by Gallup (China) Research Ltd in April 2003, Sina was the most popular company in China, and was estimated to have three-billion-page data volumes every day. Also, it was awarded the "China's Media of the Year" in 2003 by
History
In November 1998, SRSNet (Stone Rich Sight Information Technology Ltd), the most visited internet portal site in China, established by
After the merger, Sina maintained its dominant position as the most visited portal site in Mainland China over its major rivals Sohu and NetEase,[6] two other web-based companies in China, especially through its fast, continuous, and comprehensive online news services covering a vast range of worldwide events, such as the United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999.[7][6]
Sina was the first to be approved for listing on the Nasdaq stock market on 13 April 2000, through a variable interest entity (VIE) based in the Cayman Islands, followed by NetEase and Sohu in June and July respectively. It succeeded in raising US$68,000,000 before Nasdaq plummeted in May 2000. In July 2000, Sina was the official website for online coverage of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney as selected by the government and the Chinese Olympic committee.[8][6]
The Cyberspace Administration of China reprimanded Sina in 2015, accusing the online portal of having "distorted news facts, violated morality and engaged in media hype."[9] On 16 April 2018, the CAC launched an investigation into the news portal for alleged inclinations to factual errors and failure to curtail vulgar and explicit content.[10][6]
In August 2019, Sina's game studio, Sina Games, was sued by Blizzard Entertainment on a claim that their game Glorious Saga is a blatant rip-off of the long-running Warcraft games and related products.[11][12][13][6]
Management
Key officers
- Mr. University of Texas in Austin, TX. and holds an MA degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma.
- Ms. Du Hong: President and Chief Operating Officer. She holds a B.S. in Applied Chemistry from Harbin Institute of Technology and an M.S. in MIS from San Francisco State University.
- Ms. Bonnie Yi Zhang: Chief Financial Officer. She graduated summa cum laude in 1997 with a B.A. in Business Administration from McDaniel College in Maryland. She is a certified public accountant in the State of Maryland and is a member of the American Institution of Certified Public Accountants.[14]
Partnership
Sina cooperates with other web-based companies such as
On January 13, 2004, Sina and Yahoo started to jointly provide online auction services in China;[15] in response to this, EachNet (Chinese: 易趣網), which cooperates with eBay, lowered its registration fee in early February 2004 in order to keep its market share.[16]
Sina also sponsors the annual
Recently, Sina has begun collaborating with Qihoo 360 on internet security. Through this collaboration, Qihoo 360 intend to provide Sina Weibo tech support in order to protect Weibo from hackers and viruses. As of April 24, 2012, an official statement has not yet been made announcing the collaboration.[17]
Features
Multiple services
Sina provides Internet services to the Chinese population around the world. In every localized website, there are over thirty integrated channels, including news, sports, technology information, finance, advertising services, entertainment, fashion, and travel.
Sina is a multiple-service provider, its major services are
Local content
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To provide tailored internet services for local people, Sina has been conducting quantitative and qualitative marketing researches, including
Localization involves political censorship. As with all internet content providers operating within mainland China, the web pages which are geared toward mainland China audiences have internet censors controlling the discussion for sensitive political content. In addition, the news from sina comes from local newspapers, which in the case of mainland China are themselves subject to censorship by the government. This censorship does not extend to pages and forums which are not intended for audiences within mainland China.[citation needed]
Network technology
According to the company's published information, Sina.comXpressTM and Sina.comPlusTM are Sina.com's two main exclusive technologies, which bring ease-of-use benefits and enable the audience of
Publications
- Collection of internet users
- Cooperative publisher
- 作家出版社 (pinyin: zuòjiā chūbǎnshè)
- 漓江出版社 (Líjiāng chūbǎnshè)
- 清韵书院 (qīng yùn shū yuàn)
- 榕树下 (róngshù xià)
See also
References
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- ^ 北京网信办约谈新浪网 新浪新闻APP下架1个月. Xinhua. 2019-04-17.
- ^ "Blizzard sues Sina Games for blatant Warcraft rip-off Glorious Saga". www.digitaltrends.com. 2 September 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-02.
- ^ Update: Glorious Saga Game Pulled After Blizzard Files Lawsuit on Copyright Infringement – IGN, 30 August 2019, retrieved 2019-09-02
- ^ Carpenter, Nicole (2019-08-28). "Blizzard sues Chinese game company over its Warcraft 'ripoff'". Polygon. Retrieved 2019-09-02.
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- ^ "Sina Weibo Cooperates with 360 to Check Short URLs and Guarantee Weibo Users' Online Security". BrightWire. Archived from the original on 2012-03-19.
- ^ Chen, Peijin (2006-05-05). "Xu Jinglei's blog joins the gilded ranks on Technorati". Shanghaiist.com. Retrieved 2012-08-23.