Top 25 Most Popular Celebrities on Chinese Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC] We know Justin Bieber is the most-followed celeb on Twitter, and Rihanna is well-liked on Facebook, but who's popular on Chinese social media?
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It's a question that few people in the west likely ask, but with the rise of social networks such as Sina Weibo (China's Twitter) and Renren (China's Facebook) among China's 1.4 billion people, it's one that is important to consider. Synthesio, a global social-media monitoring company, created the following infographic as part of its "China Social Media Listening Month.
" It listened to the top 50 celebrities from Forbes' "The World's Most Powerful Celebrities" list, and monitored China's top social-media sites, including Sina Weibo, Renren and Tencent Weibo. As the infographic reveals, Chinese social-media users love talking about basketball player LeBron James, who takes the top spot, followed by Rihanna and Justin Bieber, respectively. Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift round out the top five.
'Six Strikes' Anti-Piracy Plan Is Both Loathed and Watched Closely. The Copyright Alert System, an anti-piracy plan also known as "Six Strikes" which goes into effect the week of Feb. 25, is getting mixed responses from Internet activists who one year ago banded together to ward off the much-hated Stop Online Piracy Act.
CAS is an effort by content owners (mostly in the entertainment industry) to monitor public data on peer-to-peer networks for what they consider illegal sharing of their music, movies or software. Content owners can share the Internet Protocol addresses of alleged offenders to the accused's ISPs, which then sets off a series of escalating actions in an attempt to put the kibosh on illegal activity. These range from emails with links to legal media consumption methods to severely throttling connection speeds or terminating access. Copyright owners, meanwhile, can open lawsuits against users who don't stop pirating content after repeated warnings, a power they have always held. Twitter's Surprising Solution to the Patent Problem: Let Employees Control Them. Drawing taken from a Twitter patent application (source: USPTO) Here’s the current state of affairs in the industry.
Engineers and designers typically sign an assignment agreement with their company. That agreement irrevocably gives that company ownership of any patents filed related to the employee’s work. The agreements all read the same: The inventor agrees to “sell, assign, and transfer” to the company “all right, title, and interest” to their inventions. Once the agreement is signed, the company has control over the patents. But what if we could keep control of the patent in the hands of engineers and designers … the very people who created the innovations in the first place? Ben Lee is the head of litigation and intellectual property at Twitter. Ecommerce Sales Topped $1 Trillion Worldwide in 2012. Ecommerce is now a trillion-dollar industry.
Global ecommerce sales passed $1 trillion in 2012 for the first time ever, fueled by growth in North America and the Asia-Pacific region, according to a new report from eMarketer. North America sales increased 13.9% year-over-year to about $365 billion and Asia-Pacific sales increased by 33% to about $332 billion. While North America currently dominates for ecommerce sales, eMarketer predicts this will change next year. EMarketer projects that North America sales will grow at a slightly lower rate of 12.2% in 2013 to $409 billion. Asia-Pacific sales, on the other hand, will grow by 30% to $433 billion. "The rapid growth in Asia-Pacific sales is a result of several factors," eMarketer notes in its report. Global ecommerce sales are expected to grow to just shy of $1.3 trillion in the coming year.
Images courtesy of iStockphoto, ryccio and eMarketer. Amazon Introduces Amazon Coins, a Virtual Currency. Amazon on Tuesday announced a new virtual currency called Amazon Coins that's billed as an "easy way for Kindle Fire customers to spend money on developers’ apps in the Amazon Appstore.
" The company will introduce the currency in May with "tens of millions of dollars' worth of free Amazon Coins" to spend on developers' apps. Amazon will also make it quick and easy for customers to buy the coins with their accounts. Developers, meanwhile, will make 70% on every purchase, with the rest going to Amazon. What the Super Bowl Blackout Looked Like in the Control Room. Iron Man 3 Super Bowl Trailer Leaves Heart-Pumping Metallic After-Taste. Super Bowl 47 was full of surprises.
The first-ever championship game black-out, a dull game turned into a nail biter, and a host of summer-blockbuster movie trailers to drool over. OK, the last part wasn't all that surprising, since we expected virtually every movie trailer (and commercial) we saw. Some like the Lone Ranger were rich and finally gave us a feel for, for example, what Johnny Depp's Tonto interpretation would really be like (not as serious as we thought). Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man 3, on the other hand, was 31 seconds of nail-biting fun, but all-too short.
The Iron Man 3 teaser Marvel Studios ran Sunday night during the Super Bowl and soon-after hit YouTube and iTunes features Air Force One being blown out of the sky. Le PDG de Bull se plante un couteau dans le dos.