【华盛顿邮报20120201】Facebook IPO:对中国有何感受？

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【中文标题】 Facebook IPO:对中国有何感受？

【原文标题】Facebook IPO filing: How does the social network feel about China?

【登载媒体】华盛顿邮报

【来源地址】http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/facebook-ipo-filing-how-does-the-social-network-feel-about-china/2012/02/01/gIQAnIhtiQ_story.html

【译者】lilyma06

【翻译方式】人工

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【译文】

Facebook的持续成功在很大程度上取决于公司持续在国际上扩张的能力，然而Facebook承认在周三提交的IPO（首次公开募股）申请文件中他们在关键的市场中至少面临着一个重要障碍——那就是中国。
文件中称，“对于Facebook来说中国是一个潜在的巨大市场，但是一般来自中国的用户访问Facebook受限。我们还不清楚是否能找到一个方式来使得网页的信息和内容被我们和中国政府都接受。”
此外，Facebook认为即使最终其进入到了巨大的中国市场，也会面临着包括人人网、新浪和腾讯在内的中国对手更激烈的竞争。
除了在中国开展业务有这些障碍之外，Facebook还列出了开展国际业务可能的大量风险，包括“政治、社会或者是经济不稳定性”，政治或社会动乱，要遵循各种外国法律的费用，全球管理运营以及员工配置方面的问题，以及与多个海外基地相关的差旅费、基础设施费以及合规成本等不断上涨的问题。
尽管Facebook并没有进军中国，提交的IPO文件也表明该公司在进入其他全球市场中已经取得了很大的胜利。在包括智利、土耳其和委内瑞拉在内的国家估计占有率已经达到80%。而在其本土美国加上英国占有率估计为60%。
The continued success of Facebook depends heavily on the company’s ability to continue expanding internationally.  But the firm acknowledges in IPO documents filed Wednesday that there’s at least one critical market in which it faces major roadblocks: China.
The document says, “China is a large  potential market for Facebook, but users are generally restricted from accessing Facebook from China. We do not know if we will be able to find  an approach to managing content and information that will be acceptable to us and to the Chinese government.”


Furthermore, Facebook acknowledges that even if it were to eventually break in to the massive Chinese market, it would face steep competition from more entrenched Chinese competitors including Renren, Sina and Tencent.
In addition to these hurdles specific to doing business in China, Facebook outlines a host of host of risks that come along with doing any international business, including  “political, social, or economic instability;” political or social unrest, “burdens of complying with a variety of foreign laws;” and “difficulties in staffing and managing global operations and the increased travel,  infrastructure, and legal compliance costs associated with multiple international locations.”
Despite the fact that the firm hasn’t made inroads in China, the IPO filing shows that the company has had great success infiltrating other global markets. In nations including Chile, Turkey and Venezuela, the firm says it estimates its pentration rate exceeds 80 percent. On its home turf, the United States, as well as the United Kingdom, the penetration rate is estimated to be 60 percent. The figure is somewhat lower for countries such as Germany, Brazil and India, where Facebook estimates its penetration rates are between 20 percent and 30 percent.





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函数解析式

facebook不是和微薄一样么，那还要它干什么啊，来了也估计没有多少人用吧？

feiyu

其实我很想知道非死不可跟新浪腾迅比谁的活跃账户多

滔滔1949

如果进入了中国，那就是谷歌跟百度之战的新版本

路过不留下

真心说，以前fb在中国不受限的时候都很少中国人玩。fb真的不好玩，我现在可以上我都没有去玩

Bambusse

马姐好勤奋{:soso_e154:}{:soso_e154:}

沐霜

在中国 MSN 和QQ不能比的  同样道理也适合于FB

ykfo2

也就公知们爱用用

Lxm_258

FB除了拜仁之外也就那些香蕉人喜欢用，其实就微博嘛，新浪，搜狐，腾讯===那一个不比他用户广泛且更贴近中国人习惯的，和google，百度还有些不一样