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69-465: Sina owns Sina Weibo , a Twitter -like microblog social network , which has 56.5 percent of the Chinese microblogging market based on active users and 86.6 percent based on browsing time over Chinese competitors such as Tencent and Baidu . The social networking service has more than 500 million users and millions of posts per day, making it the largest Chinese-language mobile portal. The company

138-569: A "lite-blogging service" similar to Tumblr, called Sina Qing, as well as a location-based service, WeiLingDi. 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 Southern Weekend . The company claims that it

207-414: A blue V. A graph and declaration certifying the verification appear on verified user pages. There are several kinds of verifications: personal, college, organization, verification for official accounts (government departments, social media platforms and famous companies), and Weibo Master (linked with phone numbers and followers). To protect the rights and interests of celebrities, Sina Weibo has launched

276-537: A blue letter "V". Sina Weibo has more than 500 million registered users; out of these, 313 million are monthly active users, 85% use the Weibo mobile app, 70% are college-aged, 50.10% are male and 49.90% are female. There are over 100 million messages posted by users each day. With more than 100 million followers, actress Xie Na holds the record for the most followers on the platform. Despite fierce competition among Chinese social media platforms, Sina Weibo remains

345-656: A celebrity authentication system. The celebrity authentication logo is a gold "V" logo after the verified user's name. The certified figures are mainly stars of various industries, business executives and important news parties. From 22:00 on June 12, 2020, users who post comments must follow the blogger for more than 7 days, except for those who have set "people I follow" to comment on themselves. This adjustment will last for 7 days. Sina produces mobile applications for various platforms to access Sina Weibo, including Android , BlackBerry OS , iOS , Symbian S60 , Windows Mobile , Windows Phone and HarmonyOS . Sina has also released

414-449: A closing tag). Users can own a hashtag by requesting hashtag monitoring; the company reviews these requests and responds within one to three days. Once a user owns a hashtag, they have access to a wide variety of functions available only to them on the condition that they remain active (less than 1 post per calendar week revokes these privileges). Additionally, comments appear as a list below each post. A commenter can also choose to re-post

483-400: A common layout which consists of sections like news, information, infotainment and email services with localized content. 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,

552-627: A desktop client for Microsoft Windows under the product name Weibo Desktop. Sina Weibo is available in both simplified and traditional Chinese characters. The site also has versions that cater to users from Hong Kong and Taiwan . In 2011, Weibo developed an international edition in English and other languages. On 9 January 2018, the company ran a week-long public test of its English edition. Sina Weibo's official iPhone and iPad apps are available in English. Weibo International supports existing Weibo accounts and allows Facebook accounts to link to

621-426: A large number of celebrities to join the platform at the beginning and has since invited many media personalities, government departments, businesses and non-governmental organizations to open accounts for the purpose of publishing and communicating information. To avoid the impersonation of celebrities, Sina Weibo uses verification symbols; celebrity accounts have an orange letter "V" and organizations' accounts have

690-419: A message would appear stating that according to relevant laws, statutes and policies, the results of the search couldn't be shown. This censorship was implemented because a photoshopped version of Tank Man which swapped all tanks in the photo with the sculpture Rubber Duck had been circulating on Twitter. According to a BBC News report, the decreasing number of users since 2014 can be attributed both to

759-605: A result of the COVID-19 pandemic with the caption "China lighting a fire versus India lighting a fire". The post was quickly deleted after it faced massive backlash from users and hashtag related to the post also was deleted. According to a report by the Human Rights Watch , racist content targeting black people are strongly prevalent in Chinese social media platforms including Weibo. In cooperation with internet censorship in China , Sina sets strict controls over

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828-504: A spinoff of Sina Weibo, a separate entity called simply "Weibo", and filed an IPO under the symbol WB. Sina carved out 11% of Weibo in the IPO, with Alibaba owning 32% post-IPO. The company began trading publicly on 17 April 2014. In March 2017, Sina launched Sina Weibo International Version. In November 2018, Sina Weibo suspended its registration function for minors under the age of 14. In July 2019, Sina Weibo announced that it would launch

897-594: A strategic cooperation agreement with Alibaba . The two sides conducted in-depth cooperation in areas such as user account interoperability, data exchange, online payment, and internet marketing. At the same time, Sina announced that Alibaba, through its wholly owned subsidiary, had purchased the preferred shares and common shares issued by Sina Weibo Company for US$ 586 million, which accounted for approximately 18% of Weibo's fully diluted and diluted total shares. On 9 April 2013, Alibaba Group announced that it would acquire 18% of Sina Weibo for US$ 586 million, with

966-547: A strategic cooperation agreement. When users browse foreign language content, they can now directly obtain translation results through the YouDao Dictionary. The Sina Weibo financial report in February 2013 showed that its total revenue was approximately US$ 66 million and that the number of registered users had exceeded the 500 million mark. In April 2013, Sina officially announced that Sina Weibo had signed

1035-546: A topic of their choice, Sina Weibo's official data, and demographic information. Sina Weibo has also recently released a desktop version available for free download at its website. On 2 May 2021, a Weibo account belonging to the Chinese Communist Party 's Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission posted an image of rocket Long March 5B 's launch next to a photo of mass cremations of the dead in India as

1104-577: A two-month campaign to clean up pornographic and vulgar information, named "Project Deep Blue" (蔚蓝计划). On 29 September 2020, the company announced it would go private again due to rising tensions between the US and China. Sina had gone public on the Nasdaq in 2000. As of  September 2021 Sina Weibo had 523 million active monthly users, with three in seven of those using the site daily. Sina Weibo has attracted criticism over censoring its users. "Weibo" (微博)

1173-719: A vast range of worldwide events, such as the United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999. 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

1242-543: Is adding 20 million new users per month. The top 100 users now have over 180 million unique followers combined. In November 1998, SRSNet (Stone Rich Sight Information Technology Ltd), the most visited internet portal site in China, established by Wang Zhidong  [ zh ] and Wang Yan in 1996, merged with Sinanet, a web site for American Chinese community, created in California by Hurst Lin, Ben Tsiang  [ zh ] , and Jack Hong in 1995. The merging of

1311-448: Is another service bundled with Weibo. Similar to Foursquare , Weilingdi is a location-based social networking website for mobile devices ; the site grew out of Sina's 2011 joint venture with GeoSentric's GyPSii . Sina's Tuding (图钉) photo-sharing service, similar to Instagram , is also produced by the same joint venture. Sina Lady Weibo (新浪女性微博) specializes in women's interests. Weibo Data Center enables users to access data analysis about

1380-442: Is believed to employ a distributed, heterogeneous strategy for censorship that has a great amount of defense-in-depth , which ranges from keyword list filtering to individual user monitoring. Nearly 30% of the total deletion events occur within 5–30 minutes, and nearly 90% of the deletions happen within the first 24 hours. On 9 March 2010, the posts by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei at Sina Weibo to appeal for information on

1449-649: Is made up of both American and foreign firms, with China and Israel being the largest foreign sources. "Nasdaq" was initially an acronym for the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations. It was founded in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), now known as the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority . On February 8, 1971, the Nasdaq stock market began operations as

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1518-710: Is maintained by a growing microblogging department of 200 employees responsible for technology, design, operations, and marketing. Sina executives invited and persuaded many Chinese celebrities to join the platform. Users now include Asian celebrities, movie stars, singers, famous business and media figures, athletes, scholars, artists, organizations, religious figures, government departments, and officials from Hong Kong , Mainland China , Malaysia , Singapore , Taiwan , and Macau , as well as some famous foreign individuals and organizations, including Kevin Rudd , Boris Johnson , David Cameron , Narendra Modi , Toshiba , and

1587-559: Is one of the biggest social media platforms in China , with over 582 million monthly active users (252 million daily active users) as of Q1 2022. The platform has been a huge financial success, with surging stocks, lucrative advertising sales and high revenue and total earnings per quarter. At the start of 2018, it surpassed the US$ 30 ;billion market valuation mark for the first time. In March 2014, Sina Corporation announced

1656-468: 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 annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com survey. Sina Corp also owns Sina Weibo , a Chinese microblogging site, similar to Sina Edalat , launched in August 2009. According to Sina Corp

1725-798: Is the blog service of Sina, which features the blogs of celebrities, including the most popular blog in the world, the one of Xu Jinglei . Sina Weibo is an equivalent to Tencent Weibo . Many celebrities from mainland China, Taiwan and also Hong Kong use Sina's Microblog as a platform to reach out to their fans and supporters. Some famous users on Sina's Microblog include Taiwanese hosts Dee Shu and Kevin Tsai , with more than ten million followers on their microblogs each. To provide tailored internet services for local people, Sina has been conducting quantitative and qualitative marketing researches, including demographic research, psychograph, etc., on target audience in specific regions. Internationalized services have

1794-430: Is the Chinese word for "microblog". Sina Weibo launched its new domain name weibo.com on 7 April 2011, deactivating and redirecting from the old domain, t.sina.com.cn, to the new one. Due to its popularity, the media sometimes refers to the platform simply as "Weibo," despite the numerous other Chinese microblogging/weibo services including Tencent Weibo (腾讯微博), Sohu Weibo (搜狐微博), and NetEase Weibo (网易微博). However,

1863-464: Is trending, it often becomes a heated issue and can have wide-ranging social influence. As such, the list has reshaped how Chinese people relate to the news media. Sina Weibo has a verification policy, much like Twitter's account verification, for confirming the identity of a user (celebrities, organizations etc.). Once a user is verified, a colorful V is appended to their username; individuals receive an orange V, while organizations and companies receive

1932-597: The 2008 Sichuan earthquake going public were deleted and his account was closed by the site administrator. Attempts to register accounts with usernames alluding to Ai Weiwei were blocked. On 30 March 2010, Hong Kong singer Gigi Leung blogged about the jailed Zhao Lianhai , an activist and father to a 2008 Chinese milk scandal victim; that post was also deleted by an administrator shortly thereafter. On 16 March 2012, all users of Sina Weibo in Beijing were told to register with their real names. Starting on 31 March 2012,

2001-495: The Germany national football team . Sina Weibo has a verification program for known people and organizations. Once an account is verified, a verification badge is added beside the account name. According to research by Sina Corporation, the number of active users reached over 400 million by Q1 2018, making Sina Weibo the 7th platform with at least 400 million active users, and daily usage increased by 21%. In June 2020, Weibo

2070-543: The London Stock Exchange to form the first intercontinental linkage of capital markets . In 1996, the SEC issued a report alleging that Nasdaq market makers fixed prices by avoiding "odd-eighths" quotes (at the time, stock prices were quoted in increments of an eighth of a dollar) to artificially widen spreads. The report was followed by a new set of rules for how Nasdaq handled orders. In 1998, it became

2139-603: The NASDAQ Financial-100 Index, which tracks the largest 100 companies in terms of market capitalization . On March 10, 2000, the NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaked at 5,132.52, but fell to 3,227 by April 17, and, in the following 30 months, fell 78% from its peak. In a series of sales in 2000 and 2001, FINRA sold its stake in the Nasdaq. On July 2, 2002, Nasdaq Inc. became a public company via an initial public offering . In 2006,

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2208-582: The list of stock exchanges by market capitalization of shares traded, behind the New York Stock Exchange . The exchange platform is owned by Nasdaq, Inc. , which also owns the Nasdaq Nordic stock market network and several U.S.-based stock and options exchanges . Although it trades stock of healthcare, financial, media, entertainment, retail, hospitality, and food businesses, it focuses more on technology stocks . The exchange

2277-618: The Chinese population around the globe, Sina stated that it has about 94.8 million registered users and more than 10 million active users engaged in their fee-based services (10,000 of whom are overseas Chinese in North America). 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

2346-416: 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 SMS , eMail , Search , Games, Match, Entertainment, Sina Sports , Sina Blog, and Sina Microblogging. Sina Blog (中文: 新浪博客)

2415-666: The EMiniCME. Below are the contract specifications for the Nasdaq 100 and derivatives. Nasdaq quotes are available at three levels: The Nasdaq Stock Market sessions, with times in the Eastern Time Zone are: 7:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.: extended-hours trading session (premarket) 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.: normal trading session 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.: extended-hours trading session (postmarket) The Nasdaq Stock Market averages about 253 trading days per year. The Nasdaq Stock Market has three different market tiers: After

2484-450: The account if the user is a celebrity, brand, business or otherwise of public interest. URLs are automatically shortened using the domain name t.cn, akin to Twitter's t.co. Official and third-party applications can access Sina Weibo from other websites or platforms. Users may: Hashtags differ slightly between Sina Weibo and Twitter, using the double-hashtag "#HashName#" format (the lack of spacing between Chinese characters necessitates

2553-485: The annual ChinICT conference held at the Tsinghua Science Park . 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. Sina provides Internet services to

2622-445: The audience of Big 5 ( traditional Chinese character ), and GB ( simplified Chinese characters ) to view the webpages sourced from around the Chinese communities of the world. Sina Weibo Weibo ( Chinese : 微博 ; pinyin : Wēibó ), previously Sina Weibo ( Chinese : 新浪微博 ; pinyin : Xīnlàng Wēibó ), is a Chinese microblogging ( weibo ) website. Launched by Sina Corporation on 14 August 2009, it

2691-531: The comment function of Sina Weibo was shut down for three days, along with Tencent QQ . In May 2012, Sina Weibo introduced new restrictions on the content its users can post. In October 2012, Sina Weibo heavily censored discussion of the Foxconn strikes in October 2012. On 4 June 2013, Sina Weibo blocked the terms "Today," "Tonight," " June 4 ," and "Big Yellow Duck." If a user searched using these terms,

2760-532: The comment, quoting the whole original post, to their own page. Unregistered users can only browse a few posts by verified accounts. Neither unverified account pages nor comments to posts by verified accounts are accessible to unregistered users. Although often described as a Chinese version of Twitter, Sina Weibo combines elements of Twitter, Facebook, and Medium, along with other social media platforms. Sina Weibo users interact more than Twitter users do, and while many topics that go viral on Weibo also originate from

2829-646: The continued price increases when selling market data . In December 2020, NASDAQ announced that it would strip its indexes of four Chinese companies in response to Executive Order 13959 . In September 2024, the European Commission said it had carried out an unannounced inspection at the offices of Nasdaq over potential anti-competitive practices. Nasdaq 100 futures are traded on the CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) while its derivatives, E-Mini Nasdaq 100 and Micro E-Mini Nasdaq 100 futures are traded on

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2898-496: The crackdown by the Chinese government on the use of aliases to create accounts and to the rising threat from competitor WeChat . Nasdaq The Nasdaq Stock Market ( / ˈ n æ z d æ k / ; National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American stock exchange based in New York City . It is the most active stock trading venue in the U.S. by volume, and ranked second on

2967-543: The eve of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). In November 2016, chief operating officer Adena Friedman was promoted to chief executive officer , becoming the first woman to run a major exchange in the U.S. In 2016, Nasdaq earned $ 272 million in listings-related revenues. In October 2018, the SEC ruled that the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq did not justify

3036-403: The field of wireless internet, in the meantime collaborating with China Mobile , China Telecom , Ericsson . On January 13, 2004, Sina and Yahoo started to jointly provide online auction services in China; 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. Sina also sponsors

3105-406: The first stock market in the United States to trade online, using the slogan "the stock market for the next hundred years". The Nasdaq Stock Market attracted many companies during the dot-com bubble . Its main index is the NASDAQ Composite , which has been published since its inception. The QQQ exchange-traded fund tracks the large-cap NASDAQ-100 index, which was introduced in 1985 alongside

3174-417: The latter three have stopped providing services. Sina Weibo is a platform based on fostering user relationships to share, disseminate, and receive information. Through the website or the mobile app, users can upload pictures and videos publicly for instant sharing, with other users being able to comment with text, pictures and videos, or use a multimedia instant messaging service. The company initially invited

3243-516: The main search page under "VLOG" sub-menu. Weibo interviews are text-based interviews hosted on the Weibo platform. Users post questions to the person being interviewed via Weibo posts and that person responds in real-time. If a user links their Weibo account to a cell phone number, the user can both make and receive Weibo posts via text message. The user can then upload posts by texting them to 1069 009 009 and they will appear on Weibo in real time. Replies or comments to those posts are sent to

3312-471: The microblogging site has more than 200 million users and millions of posts per day and is adding 20 million new users per month. The company also said it now has more than 60,000 verified accounts, consisting of celebrities, sports stars and other VIPs. The top 100 users now have over 180 million followers. Furthermore, Sina said that more than 5,000 companies and 2,700 media organizations in China are currently using Sina Weibo. More recently, Sina also released

3381-470: The monthly Stock Guides (stock guides and procedures) issued by Standard & Poor's Corporation. Over the years, it became more of a stock market by adding trade and volume reporting and automated trading systems. In 1981, Nasdaq traded 37% of the U.S. securities markets' total of 21 billion shares. By 1991, Nasdaq's share had grown to 46%. In 1992, the Nasdaq Stock Market joined with

3450-666: The most popular. After the July 2009 Ürümqi riots , China shut down most domestic microblogging services, including Fanfou , the very first weibo service. Many popular non-China-based microblogging services like Twitter , Facebook , and Plurk have since been blocked . Sina Corporation CEO Charles Chao considered this to be an opportunity, and on 14 August 2009, Sina launched the tested version of Sina Weibo. Basic functions including message, private message, comment and reposting were made available that September. A Sina Weibo–compatible API platform for developing third-party applications

3519-431: 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. 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

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3588-489: The option to buy up to 30% in the future. Alibaba exercised this option when Weibo was listed on NASDAQ in April 2014. According to iResearch 's report on 30 March 2011, Sina Weibo had 56.5% of China's microblogging market based on active users and 86.6% based on browsing time over competitors such as Tencent Weibo and Baidu . The top 100 users had over 485 million followers combined. More than 5,000 companies and 2,700 media organizations in China use Sina Weibo. The site

3657-461: The platform itself, Twitter topics often come from outside news or events. During the outbreak of the COVID-19, Weibo was also a data collecting station to collect and detect the spread of the coronavirus. Trending topics Sina Weibo's "trending topics" is a list of current popular topics based partly on tracking user participation and partly on the preference of Weibo staff. Once a topic

3726-430: The platform; users can also use their mobile phone number (including international mobile phone numbers) to register new accounts. One of the most recent features of Weibo is Stories. "Weibo's stories" is a video function allowing users to record a video and save them in a separate "Story" menu in their profile page. Weibo has also launched a new "Vlog" function. Now, every video with a hashtag VLOG will be available in

3795-443: The posts on its services. Posts with links using some URL shortening services (including Google's goo.gl), or containing blacklisted keywords, are not allowed on Sina Weibo. Posts on politically sensitive topics are deleted after manual checking. Users with few followers may be able to post on censored topics with relative freedom until they reach a critical mass of followers, which triggers enforced content supervision. Sina Weibo

3864-834: The status of the Nasdaq Stock Market was changed from a stock market to a licensed national securities exchange. In 2007, it merged with OMX, a leading exchange operator in the Nordic countries, expanded its global footprint, and changed its name to the NASDAQ OMX Group. To qualify for listing on the exchange, a company must be registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), must have at least three market makers (financial firms that act as brokers or dealers for specific securities) and must meet minimum requirements for assets, capital, public shares, and shareholders. In February 2011, in

3933-418: The super-hashtag, they will become a member of that community. Their level of membership will increase depend on the sacrifice to the degree of discussion of the super-hashtags (such as signing in, posting, commenting). After publishing a post, you can choose to increase the exposure of the post by paying for it and promoting the content to a wider potential audience. Weilingdi (微领地, literally, micro fief )

4002-589: The two largest Chinese websites formed into the later Sina. Since then, the service had been extended across the straits and North America , before it extended to Hong Kong in July 1999. After the merger, Sina maintained its dominant position as the most visited portal site in Mainland China over its major rivals Sohu and NetEase , two other web-based companies in China, especially through its fast, continuous, and comprehensive online news services covering

4071-400: The user via text message. Weibo began displaying IP addresses of users when posting and commenting in April 2022. A centralised approach to information in the form of a topic. Users can post and discuss within the super-hashtags. It is different from regular hashtags, users can apply to be the host and having the authorities to audit and shield the posts. Once the user choose to subscribe

4140-485: The wake of an announced merger of NYSE Euronext with Deutsche Börse , speculation developed that NASDAQ OMX and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) could mount a counter-bid of their own for NYSE. NASDAQ OMX could be looking to acquire the American exchange's cash equities business, ICE the derivatives business. At the time, "NYSE Euronext's market value was $ 9.75 billion. Nasdaq was valued at $ 5.78 billion, while ICE

4209-609: The website. The official logo was also updated. In June 2011, Sina announced an English -language version of Sina Weibo would be developed and launched, though content would still be governed by Chinese law. On 11 January 2013, Sina Weibo and Alibaba China (a subsidiary of Alibaba Group ) signed a strategic cooperation agreement. With more and more foreign celebrities using Sina Weibo, language translation has become an urgent need for Chinese users who wish to communicate with their idols online, especially Korean . In January 2013, Sina Weibo and NetEase.com announced that they had reached

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4278-460: The world's first electronic stock market. At first, it was merely a "quotation system" and did not provide a way to perform electronic trades. The NASDAQ Stock Market eventually assumed the majority of major trades that had been executed by the over-the-counter (OTC) system of trading, but there are still many securities traded in this fashion. As late as 1987, the Nasdaq exchange was still commonly referred to as "OTC" in media reports and also in

4347-691: Was among 58 other Chinese apps that were banned by the Government of India . Following this, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi 's account was deactivated. Many of Sina Weibo's features resemble those of Twitter . A user may post with a 140- character limit (increased to 2,000 as of January 2016 with the exception of reposts and comments), mention or talk to other people using "@UserName" formatting, add hashtags , follow other users to make their posts appear in one's own timeline, re-post with "//@UserName" similar to Twitter's retweet function "RT @UserName", select posts for one's favorites list, and verify

4416-555: Was founded as a European equivalent to the Nasdaq Stock Market. It was purchased by NASDAQ in 2001 and became NASDAQ Europe. In 2003, operations were shut down as a result of the burst of the dot-com bubble . In 2007, NASDAQ Europe was revived first as Equiduct and was acquired by Börse Berlin later that year. On June 18, 2012, Nasdaq OMX became a founding member of the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative on

4485-618: 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 PaaS platform for cloud computing in China. It is run by SAE Department, which was founded in 2009. SAE is dedicated in providing stable, effective web deployment and hosting service for those corporations, organizations and independent developers. Now more than 300,000 developers in China are using SAE. It mainly caters to

4554-427: Was launched on 28 July 2010. On 1 December 2010, the website experienced an outage, which administrators later said was due to the ever-increasing numbers of users and posts. Registered users surpassed 100 million in February 2011. Since 23 March 2011, t.cn has been used as Sina Weibo's official shortened URL in lieu of sinaurl.cn. On 7 April 2011, weibo.com replaced t.sina.com.cn as the new main domain name used by

4623-430: 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. Sina cooperates with other web-based companies such as People , Nanfang Daily , Lifeweek and Xinhuanet , etc. Apart from the media partners, its clients include Microsoft , Dell , IBM , Motorola , and Kodak . Recently Sina started developing its business in

4692-711: Was the official website for online coverage of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney as selected by the government and the Chinese Olympic committee. 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." 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. In August 2019, Sina's game studio, Sina Games ,

4761-662: Was valued at $ 9.45 billion." Late in the month, Nasdaq was reported to be considering asking either ICE or the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to join in what would probably have to be, if it proceeded, an $ 11–12 billion counterbid. In December 2005, NASDAQ acquired Instinet for $ 1.9 billion, retaining the Inet ECN and subsequently selling the agency brokerage business to Silver Lake Partners and Instinet management. The European Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System (EASDAQ)

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