Sina seeks new revenues as WeChat snaps at its heels
A man holding a Sina Weibo logo in Beijing. Weibo accounted for 16 percent of Sina's total advertising revenue, which stood at $120.6 million, in the third quarter, up from 10 percent in the second quarter, according to Charles Chao, Sina's chairman and chief executive officer. Wu Changing / For China Daily |
Chinese Web portal operator Sina Corp, which runs the country's most popular micro-blogging service, is stepping up efforts to generate revenues from the service, amid investors' concerns that it is not making as much money as expected.
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