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May 11, 2013 02:44 am GMT

Sina Weibo Will Monetize Through E-Commerce, Not Ads, Alibaba CTO Jian Says

weibo logoOne interesting thing to watch is how social networking platforms mature divergently as businesses around the world.Sina Weibo, the public microblogging platform that has had a huge impact on online discourse in China, is veering down a path toward e-commerce and transactions after Alibaba took a stake worth $586 million in it last month. The platform is one of the two more influential social networks in China today, with the other being Tencent's messaging app WeChat.

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