Other internet stocks, though, lack investment coverage and could be ripe for snapping up. ChinaCache Internatnl Hldgs Ltd (ADR) (NASDAQ:CCIH), Renren Inc (NYSE:RENN), and SINA Corp (NASDAQ:SINA) are a few of the stocks beaten down in the last ...

Unsurprisingly, numerous internet companies such as Baidu.com, Inc. (ADR) (NASDAQ:BIDU), China's premier web search engine; SINA Corp (NASDAQ:SINA), an online media and news company; and Alibaba, an private auction website on the verge of an ...

SINA Corp (NASDAQ:SINA) has also put forth a solid performance on the technical front, climbing more than 12% so far this year to trade at $56.37, and besting the broader S&P 500 Index (SPX) by north of 11 percentage points during the past two months.

In this article, I compare Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), LinkedIn Corp (NYSE:LNKD), SINA Corp (NASDAQ:SINA) and Renren Inc (NYSE:RENN), trying to take into consideration every important aspect of the social network business.

The Chinese government last year passed a law mandating the use of real names to register for internet services and also began to force users of Sina Corp's wildly successful Weibo microblogging platform to register their real names. Enforcement of ...

SINA Corp (NASDAQ:SINA) has gone from 9 million shares to about 2.6M shares sold short. In previous trading session, stock reports dropped 0.30% to the closing price of $56.74.

Notable Chinese tech names including NTES, BIDU, SINA, and SOHU are among the top ten holdings in the fund for example. [China ETFs Weak on Credit Jitters].

In the iOS 7 reveal at WWDC, one writer noted that the Shared Links panel on iOS 7 had only Twitter listed, though the developer code had other social networking sites included like Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), Tencent Weibo, Sina Weibo, Youku and others.

It's also facing competition from SINA Corp (NASDAQ:SINA), Qihoo 360 Technology Co Ltd (NYSE:QIHU) and Sohu.com Inc (NASDAQ:SOHU) in the search battleground.

For instance, Sina Corp, which owns micro-blogging service Weibo, has recently launched an online payment service in a bid to transform its heavy Web traffic into revenue amid increasing competition.