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Report 1:

It appears Chinese online media giant Sina is joining  BesTV New, to start a new Internet television service, to expand its multimedia content  with the launch of its own social television service

According to Bloomberg report:

Sina Corp, operator of the Twitter- like Weibo site in China, plans to start a new Internet television service, stepping up efforts to add multimedia content to win social networking users.
Sina will offer the “social television” service with BesTV New Media Co., according to details posted on Weibo.com. Mao Taotao, a public relations manager at Sina in Beijing, confirmed the contents of the site. The companies will unveil the new service at an event in Shanghai today that will be attended by executives including Charles Chao, Sina’s chief executive officer.
The new service will help Sina attract other partners in the television industry and application developers to offer content on Weibo, the company said on Weibo.com.
Sina Weibo is China’s most-popular microblogging service by activity, generating four times the number of page views on average from each user, compared to Tencent’s, according to a April 20 report by Morgan Stanley.
Last month, Sina reached an agreement with Zynga Inc. (ZNGA) to offer the San Francisco-based company’s “Draw Something” game in China. BesTV New Media, a Shanghai-based provider of video services, is a unit of state-owned Shanghai Media Group.

Report 2:

Reporting for the Koreatimes Cho Mu-hyun states that the most searched words in Korea at the moment are Kakao Talk and Galaxy: Full report below:

Google Korea revealed Thursday a list of the most searched words in Korea country during the first half of the year in four categories, giving a clear outline of what topics Koreans were looking for most.
In the information technology category, mobile messenger service Kakao Talk topped the list after launching a free Internet call service which caused heated debate over network neutrality.
Samsung Electronics’ two smartphone products, Galaxy Note and Galaxy S3 took second and third place respectively for their stellar sales. Kakao Story, Kakao Talk’s social network service was fourth after garnering 9.2 million users in a week. Google’s Chrome was fifth for becoming the most used browser in the world.

Sources: KoreatimesBloomberg

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