Happy birthday, OpenSocial! Welcome to Xiaonei
OpenSocial, the standards platform that makes it easier to write applications across social networks, is celebrating its one-year birthday in San Francisco today. As part of the festivities, OpenSocial made several announcements, most significantly launching on Chinese social networking site Xiaonei, and releasing some impressive… Continue Reading
Roundup: YouTube revenue, clean energy governance, and much more
Report: YouTube still trying to figure out how to make money — Lots of people have been wondering if the online video site has somehow figured out how to make big money from its huge amounts of web traffic. The answer, according to a Wall Street… Continue Reading
Xiaonei, the Facebook of China, raises $430M — better funded than Facebook
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Xiaonei, the company that likes to call itself the “Facebook of China” has raised a whopping $430 million from financial backers, VentureBeat has learned from the company’s investors.
The backing gives it a larger financial warchest than Facebook itself, and sets the scene for… Continue Reading