‘China’s Twitter’ Sina Weibo drops ‘Sina’ from its name as it prepares to list in the US
Mar28
China’s Twitter-like microblogging platform Sina Weibo has just dropped ‘Sina’ from its name to become known only as ‘Weibo,’ as it aptly announced via Weibo today. The logo on the service’s homepage has also been changed to reflect the switch in name. Weibo means “microblog” in Chinese. This move essentially makes the platform synonymous with microblogging in China and overrides all other similar services — which include Tencent Weibo — and comes as it recently filed for a US IPO to raise up to $500 million. A recent report published by state-affiliated research organization China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) showed that as of end-2013, the number…
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