subject: It is Said Facebook will Step Into China [print this page] It is Said Facebook will Step Into China It is Said Facebook will Step Into China
Recently, China bulk wholesale eletronics company epathchina CEO Yide Huang released news that, the world's largest social networking site Facebook is about to enter into China, and presently the relevant agreement has been signed, the way of entry is to build a new station.
Epathchina Yide Huang didn't disclose further details about Facebook entering into China, but he said details would be disclosed soon.
It is noteworthy that, recently, with a joint venture called Gaopeng with the Tencent network, groupbuy site Groupon has landed on the Chinese market. Therefore, some analysts believe that for the Facebook,there no more than two main ways to enter into China: First, trough a joint venture, second, by means of cooperation, acquisition.
However,epathchina yide Huang believes that, Facebook entering into China is not particularly early and at least not this year.
The informed source said, Facebook need to accept some restrictions for entering into China, for instance, the server should be located in China,it is better to adopt joint ventures in China, and China is holding more than 50% shares and so on.
And more analysis from discount electronics storeepathchina yide Huang noted that be different from Groupon, for Facebook entering into China, its biggest obstacle will be to face the precisely review of contents. Previousely Google had declined to cooperate with the Chinese government censorship and choose to move the server away from the mainland of China.
In addition to the risk of policy, Facebook will face a market test for entering into China..
At present, in the SNS (social networking) market, RenRen net, Kaixin network and Tencent have occupied a considerable scale, in which Kaixin network and RenRen networks have been traced to be listed in the United States. Promoted fiercely by Sina, Tencent, Sohu, Netease, microblogging has formed a boom in the Chinese market, thus make impact on the traditional SNS industries
Earlier, epathchina Yide Huang has commented that he shown an cautious optimism outlook to Facebook entering into China's. He believed that in the competitive environment of China SNS industires, it is difficult for Faceboobk to make the most of its advantage on open platform and other areas.
At the same time, epathchina yide Huang said that now each SNS website is exploring aspects of SNS marketing value and application value, if Facebook still enters into China with identity of the traditional SNS site, he will has no so much room for development
