1. Sina Weibo
Presented by: Zijiang Yang

2. What is Weibo?

3. Financial Info
● Filed on Mar.14
to raise $500
million via a US
IPO.
● Value between
$3.3 billion to
$7 billion
2012 2013
revenue(million dollars)
65.9
188.3
2012 2013
net loss (million dollars)
102.5
38.1

4. History
● July 2009 Urumqi Riots
● Tested version launched on 14 August 2009
● Registered user surpassed 100 million before
March 2011
● 9 April 2013, Alibaba announced to acquire 18%
of Sina Weibo
● Over 500 million registered users and 61 million
daily active users, as of 2013

5. What’s hot?
● Going public in US
● Drops ‘Sina’ from its name

6. Secrete Sauce
● Low barrier to entry
● Can post images and video, even sound, directly
into their Weibo feeds.

7. Interesting Story
● Commenting feature shut off from Mar.31, 2012
to April.3rd, 2012.

8. Competition

9. Future
● More competition with Wechat

10. Questions