The specifics? The
agreement will see a significant level of integration between the two platforms. Said Renren's chief operating officer Liu Jian in a statement: "Renren's alliance with MSN network is in the spirit of
a win-win situation." Seeking success where others (i.e., Google) have found failure, Microsoft has recently focused it global expansion efforts on China.
Last month, the software giant said it would partner with Baidu to provide the Chinese Web-services company with English-language search. By the numbers, China is a very attractive market for any tech company. As Reuters notes, it's the world's largest Internet market by users with around 480 million "netizens," while around 230 million of them use social networking sites, and 385 million of them use instant messaging.