Afm: China’s Huace Becomes Force on Global Film Scene
In the past two years, Zhejiang Huace has emerged as one of the most important new forces not only on the Chinese film and TV scene, but also on the...
View ArticleAlibaba Agrees to Buy Video Site Youku Tudou for $27.60 a Share
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. agreed to buy video service Youku Tudou Inc. for $27.60 a share in cash as billionaire Jack Ma seeks to...
View ArticleTencent and MGM announce deal for online rights to entire James Bond...
SHENZHEN, China, Nov. 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Tencent Holdings Limited ("Tencent" or the "Company") (SEHK: 00700), a leading provider of Internet value added services in China, announced today it has...
View ArticleTencent signs agreement to offer exclusive TVOD and SVOD access to new movie...
SHENZHEN, China, Nov. 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Tencent Holdings Limited ("Tencent" or the "Company") (SEHK: 00700), a leading provider of Internet value added services in China, has reached an agreement...
View ArticleChina is on track to surpass US as world's biggest movie market by 2017
LOS ANGELES — Despite the recent economic slowdown in China, the country's film market is growing even faster than anticipated. China is now on track to overtake the United States as the world's...
View ArticleInternet helps Chinese film industry grow bigger
LOS ANGELES - "Film used to be B2C (Business of Customer) business, but now Internet allows the industry focus on customers", Michael Ellis, Asia-Pacific President and Managing Director of the Motion...
View ArticleSingles Day online sales shatter records
Online shoppers spend $14.33b in frenzied 24 hours of buying binge China's e-commerce industry set another jaw-dropping sales record on Singles Day, the world's biggest online shopping event, with...
View ArticleLetv defends spending spree, as first player from mainland China to ‘crack’...
Chinese online video-streaming giant Letv has been investing aggressively in its operations in China and Hong Kong, but it defended its spending spree this week by saying that internet companies often...
View ArticleInternet shoppers get a taste for fresh food
From Ailao Mountain oranges to Canadian cod, the online grocery market is growing rapidly and is now worth up to $4.09 billion It takes three and a half hours to fly from Shanghai to Kunming, the...
View ArticleAlibaba and JD brace for big shopping battle on Singles Day
Singles Day, the annual red-letter day in China that has fostered the world's biggest online shopping festival, is shaping up into a two-horse race between e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding and...
View ArticleNew Flight Pattern for Online Travel Rivalry
A deal with Baidu for a Ctrip-Qunar tie-up may set the stage for more competition among China's Internet giants By staff reporter Qin Min (Beijing) – The business of selling airline tickets and resort...
View ArticleAlibaba pays US$3.67b to take over Youku Tudou
E-commerce powerhouse Alibaba Group Holding has agreed to pay US$3.67 billion for the shares that it does not own in Youku Tudou, the mainland's leading online video services provider, and take the New...
View ArticleTencent and MGM announce deal for online rights to entire James bond...
(Source: Tencent Holdings Ltd) 272a7230-ea65-4b02-8ffa-a841480cc830.pdf TENCENT AND MGM ANNOUNCE DEAL FOR ONLINE RIGHTS TO ENTIRE JAMES BOND FRANCHISE IN CHINA Movie fans in China to get access to the...
View ArticleTencent signs agreement to offer exclusive TVOD and SVOD access to new movie...
(Source: Tencent Holdings Ltd) DRAFT #1 Tencent signs agreement to offer exclusive TVOD and SVOD access to new movie releases from Paramount Pictures in China Tencent users will have access to a wide...
View ArticleTencent profit hits record as games, video attract users
Tencent Holdings Ltd (騰訊) posted record third-quarter profits as the Chinese Internet company withstood a slowing domestic economy through the popularity of online games and streaming HBO shows. Net...
View ArticleTencent Profit Rises to Record as Online Gaming Lures Users
Tencent Holdings Ltd. posted record third-quarter profit as the Chinese Internet company withstood a slowing domestic economy through the popularity of online games and streaming HBO shows. Net income...
View ArticleAlibaba to buy Youku Tudou in US$4.8bn deal
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (阿里巴巴) on Friday agreed to buy video service Youku Tudou Inc (優酷土豆) in a deal said to be valued at US$4.8 billion, as billionaire Jack Ma (馬雲) seeks to stream more content to...
View ArticleTencent Uses Free HBO Shows, Mobile Games to Beat China Slowdown
In China’s slowing economy, billionaire Ma Huateng is finding growth by supplying cheap entertainment to the masses. Smartphone games for the billion users of the WeChat and QQ messaging applications...
View ArticleFirst Quarterly Results Announcement for the three months ended September...
(Source: China 3D Digital Entertainment Ltd) b60e7d8c-30de-4b87-8f14-d8dd13de31e8.pdf China 3D Digital Entertainment Limited 中國 3D 數碼娛樂有限公司 * (Incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability) (Stock...
View ArticleFirst Quarterly Report 2015/2016 (China 3D Digital Entertainment Ltd)
(Source: China 3D Digital Entertainment Ltd) acc2eab4-8285-4c7e-9f6b-fdf21eca258e.pdf First Quarterly Report 2015-2016 I H N C A 3 D CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GROWTH ENTERPRISE MARKET...
View ArticleFemale-directed films rule a weekend box office topped by 'Spectre,' 'Peanuts'
LOS ANGELES — Women owned this past weekend's theaters as directors of three high-profile premieres opened across the country - Jessie Nelson's "Love the Coopers" and Patricia Riggen's "The 33"...
View ArticleBaidu in talks to buy majority stake in Mydala for $100 million
NEW DELHI: Baidu, China's biggest Internet search company, is in talks to make its first investment in India, joining compatriots Alibaba and Tencent that are actively scouting for promising startups...
View ArticleSingles Day online sales shatter records (The Central People's Government of...
(Source: The Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China) China's e-commerce industry set another jaw-dropping sales record on Singles Day, the world's biggest online shopping event,...
View ArticleBona Film invests $235m in Fox movie slate
A major Chinese film studio has struck a deal that will funnel $235 million into a slate of six tentpole 20th Century Fox Film Corp's movies including this summer's The Martian, as China's burgeoning...
View ArticleCITIC plans to jointly invest with Baidu in direct bank
CITIC Bank, the country's seventh-largest commercial bank by assets, plans on majority holding in the direct bank it is going to jointly set up with Baidu. The Baixin Bank will have an registered...
View ArticleBaidu, CITIC cement partnership
Search giant plans to offer online financial services through its new unit Baidu Inc, the country's biggest online search firm, is set to enter the private banking sector by teaming up with a local...
View ArticleBaidu Teams With Citic Bank to Join China's Online Banking Wave
Baidu Inc., the Chinese Internet search company, is teaming up with China Citic Bank Corp. to join the wave of online lenders altering a financial industry traditionally dominated by the big state...
View ArticleWhy Singles' Day in China Is Bigger Than Cyber Monday
Singles' Day, a twist on Valentine's Day, started in China in the 1990s as an obscure holiday but has snowballed into a consumer phenomenon thanks largely to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., founded by Jack...
View ArticleChinese nationals are buying multi-million dollar US homes using the...
WeChat India's advertising campaign. Imagine selling a $14 million New York City apartment entirely through Twitter or SnapChat. Emma Hao, an agent for luxury-home broker Douglas Elliman has done it....
View ArticleSky’s the limit for Beidou’s clients (The Central People's Government of the...
(Source: The Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China) China's commercial eye in the sky is ready to produce solid down-to-earth profits for its customers. Fifteen years after the...
View ArticleChina Tech ETFs Stand Out as Xi Bolsters Internet Amid Slowdown
For all the discouragement about the slowdown in China’s economy, at least one part of it is producing notable returns for some investors in U.S. exchange-traded funds: technology. Fund managers...
View ArticleTencent's SY Lau lays out his vision for Internet Plus and its significance...
SELANGOR, Malaysia, Nov. 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- SY Lau, Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent and President of its Online Media Group (OMG), spoke today at the 2015 Malaysia-China Entrepreneur...
View ArticleCloser Look: Baidu Joins Other Internet Giants to Open a Bank
Search giant is close to opening a financial institution with Citic Bank, but it may already have a leg up on Alibaba and Tencent in the race By staff reporter Wu Hongyuran (Beijing) – Baidu Inc.,...
View ArticleChinese baby-goods market grows up fast
HONG KONG — Just hours after Beijing this month announced plans to abandon its one-child policy, an advertisement appeared on Chinese social media for a mobile app connecting pregnant women and new...
View ArticleChina’s Baidu, Alibaba & Tencent scouting for Indian startups to invest in
NEW DELHI: A new group of investors — Chinese in origin — is poised to step in as investors of choice for Indian startups, taking the place of some of the country's biggest venture capital firms that...
View ArticleFrom brick-and-mortar malls to e-finance: Can China’s richest man Wang...
China’s richest man, Dalian Wanda chairman Wang Jianlin, is banking on brick-and-mortar stores to realise his latest ambition of developing the country’s most successful privately owned internet...
View ArticleIndian startups, Chinese giants Baidu, Alibaba & Tencent eyeing you
NEW DELHI: A new group of investors — Chinese in origin — is poised to step in as investors of choice for Indian startups, taking the place of some of the country's biggest venture capital firms that...
View ArticleFandango and National CineMedia (NCM) Form Strategic In-Theater Marketing,...
(Source: National CineMedia Inc) Multiyear Deal Kicks off with Debut of Fandango's New 'Miles Mouvay' Video Spots Featuring 'Saturday Night Live' Star Kenan Thompson on the Big Screen in NCM's...
View ArticleChina Hi-Tech Fair 2015: "Internet Plus" is Booming
SHENZHEN, China, Nov. 18, 2015 (Antara/PRNewswire) -- The China Hi-Tech Fair (CHTF) 2015 kicked off on November 16 in Shenzhen, China, covering an exhibition area of more than 150,000 square meters and...
View ArticleAsian online giveaways echo past internet follies
HONG KONG: As the internet boom of the late 1990s neared its peak, venture capitalists used to joke about setting up a website that would sell dollar bills for 90 cents. The start-up would attract...
View ArticleWang Jianlin on Why the Wanda Phenomenon Works
China's wealthiest person reveals the secrets of real estate success and plans for the future in an exclusive interview By New York correspondent Li Xiaoxiao (Boston) – The US$ 2.6 billion buyout of...
View ArticleOnline land of milk and honey
Annual shopping extravaganza delivers $14.3 billion and records to Alibaba China's e-commerce industry set another jaw-dropping sales record on Singles Day, the world's biggest online shopping event,...
View ArticleWanda plans film arm's IPO, eyes Hollywood size
A Wanda cinema in Yichang, Hubei province. (Photo Source: China Daily) BEIJING, Nov. 25 (Xinhuanet) -- Dalian Wanda Group Co Ltd, the privately owned Chinese property conglomerate, plans to list its...
View ArticleMovie Theaters Ready to Cash In on 'Star Wars' With 'Yoda-Ritas'
People headed to cinemas to see the new “Star Wars” next month will encounter more than the usual concession-stand popcorn and Raisinets. Theater chains, seeking to capture a bigger share of “The Force...
View ArticleBaidu and Allianz team up to grab slice of China’s online insurance market
The arms race between China’s big three internet companies is heating up in financial services as online search giant Baidu, global insurer Allianz and Asian investor Hillhouse Capital...
View ArticleIs Internet TV next wave after smartphones?
BEIJING, Nov. 26 (Xinhuanet) -- Internet TV that works like a smartphone in mega-size may be the next big thing and there is no shortage of manufacturing and software firms trying to capture those...
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