Who said only Ctrip and eLong ruled the Chinese Internet travel world? LY.com, one of China's many privately-run travel booking websites, announced that they have gained over CNY6 billion new investments from Wanda Culture Industry Group, Tencent Industry Win-Win Fund, and CITIC Capital. As the lead investor, Wanda Culture Industry Group invested CNY3.58 billion in the tourism website. For many years, ...
Alibaba Group announced that the company and Taiwan-based Foxconn have made strategic investments of JPY14.5 billion, which is about CNY732 million, into SoftBank Robotics Holdings Corporation. Under the agreement signed by the three parties, Alibaba and Foxconn will hold a 20% stake in SBRH, respectively; while SoftBank will own the remaining 60%. Alibaba, Foxconn and SoftBank will work together to promote the global ...
Alibaba is working directly with foreign embassies in China to expand its influence and sales potential around the world. The e-commerce company has opened 11 official country pavilions on its Tmall Global platform and cooperative partnerships between Juhuasuan, Alibaba's group-buying platform, and 26 foreign embassies in China. A total of 11 countries, including United States, New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, France, ...
With heat bearing down on their necks in China from local competitors Huawei and ZTE, Cisco has decided to invest more into their China operations. The U.S.-based company plans to invest over USD10 billion in China over the next few years to support local innovation with a series of strategic measures. Cisco made this promise during the China visit of its chairman and current CEO John Chambers and its soon-to-be ...
Ant Financial Services Group, a small and micro financial services company under Alibaba Group's Alipay, will officially launch their online banking platform MYbank on June 25, 2015. MYbank is also known as Zhejiang Online Business Bank and is one of the first five trial private banks approved by China Banking Regulatory Commission on March 11, 2014. This bank later gained construction approval on September 29, 2014. ...