Sentences with phrase «chinese internet company»

Launched in May 2016, the Lenovo Zuk Z1 is an upcoming smartphone that will be released shortly as a tie up between Lenovo and the Chinese Internet company ZUK.

The company is funded by some big - name investors, including Goldman Sachs, Chinese internet company Baidu and Jim Breyer, a tech venture capitalist that got behind Facebook in its early days.

Chinese Internet company Tencent confirmed yesterday that it has agreed to buy SuperCell in a deal that values the Finnish games company at around $ 10.2 billion.

The Chinese internet company owns 48.4 % of Epic Games, and can appoint members to the Board of Directors, after a $ 330 million investment

The deal will be for $ 8.6 billion U.S. dollars, and the Chinese internet company will own an 84 percent stake.

The list does not include the management buyout of Activision Blizzard, the world's biggest video game publisher, in which a Chinese Internet company, Tencent, took part.

It also turns out to be faster: a study by Stanford University, the University of Washington and Baidu, the Chinese Internet company, showed that for handheld devices the spoken word was three times faster than entering on a small keyboard.

Jack is the former president and CTO of SINA Corporation (Nasdaq: SINA), a leading Chinese Internet Company.

After the close of the deal, Yahoo shareholders will still own shares in what is left of the company, essentially an investment fund with two holdings: a 15 percent stake, worth about $ 32 billion based on its recent share price, in the Chinese internet company Alibaba; and a 35.5 percent stake, worth about $ 8.7 billion, in Yahoo Japan.

JD.com, backed by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner's DST Global, filed in January to raise $ 1.5 billion in what may be the largest IPO of a Chinese Internet company in the U.S.

With that vision, Wang and DHgate.com opened up the first era of business - to - business (B2B) e-commerce in China, and the company has since rocketed to be a leading Chinese Internet company.

The stock was VCSY a Chinese internet company with a homepage consisting of a simple dial pad.

«The whole idea was to get people to think more creatively, maybe come up with a new idea they wouldn't have if they were just in their office,» said Dale Alberda, the lead architect on the project at NBBJ, a firm that has also worked on building projects for Samsung, Google and the Chinese internet company Tencent.

(Reuters)-- Chinese Internet company Meituan - Dianping, akin to a mix of Yelp, GroupOn and food delivery, said on Tuesday its latest funding round raised over $ 3.3 billion, valuing the firm at more than $ 18 billion.

That deal was led by Chinese Internet company Tencent Holdings.

Larry Puglia, manager of the T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund, owns Alibaba along with Chinese Internet company Tencent (tcehy), which is also capitalizing on mobile payments.

Various news outlets this week reported that Chinese Internet company Alibaba, which has expansion plans in North America, is interested in purchasing a stake in Snapchat, and assessing it to be worth 11 figures.

It's said to be the most expensive domain name purchased by a Chinese Internet company, and Xiaomi intends to use it to make its brand name easier to remember.

Mysterious electric car startup Faraday Future has been the topic of several news reports lately relating to the company's financial and intellectual property issues, as well as its relationship with Chinese internet company LeEco, which has fallen on hard times recently as well.

In the cloud server market, a much larger current sales target for AI chips, Nvidia announced deals to supply its Volta graphic processors used for such functions to Chinese Internet companies Alibaba (baba), Baidu (bidu), and Tencent (tcehy)

well, senator, there are some very strong Chinese Internet companies.»

He notes that Chinese Internet companies certainly were imitating their U.S. counterparts until the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis, which hit the Internet advertising market hard.

Chinese Internet companies have been spending heavily amid fierce competition.

When Zuckerberg began to answer by praising Chinese internet companies, Sullivan said, laughing, «You're supposed to say yes to this question.

Uber, a five - year - old company that operates in more than 310 cities and 58 countries worldwide, faces homegrown Chinese rivals like Didi Kuaidi, which has more than 90 percent of the market and is backed by two of the largest Chinese Internet companies, Alibaba and Tencent.

Two companies — Chinese internet companies Baidu and Tencent — improved their disclosure of reasons for collecting and sharing information (P5), but companies on average scored poorly on this indicator.

Meanwhile, Chinese internet companies were gaining visibility worldwide thanks to Alibaba's record - breaking New York IPO in September.

Hillhouse, which has invested in major Chinese internet companies including Baidu Inc (BIDU.O), Tencent Holdings Ltd (0700.

Zuckerberg hesitated, then said «mostly in America» before mentioning some «very strong Chinese internet companies.»

As demonstrated by the far - reaching success and impact of Chinese Internet companies — such as e-commerce giant Alibaba's record - breaking «11.11 Singles» Day» sales of over US$ 17 billion, as well as the incredible saturation of over 700 million active users achieved by Tencent's messaging and social networking platform, Wechat, and its new mobile payment system, WePay, to name a couple — in many respects, China's mobile and digital infrastructure has surpassed the systems available in many economies, including those in Canada.

He's founded BroadWebAsia, which has in turn taken stakes in 20 Chinese Internet companies that focus on entertainment and — like MySpace — social networking.

Chinese Internet companies are developing online dating sites designed to meet the specific issues men and women face here.

Yang announced their ability to strike a nice working relationship with Chinese Internet companies such as Baidu and Tencent will provide the LePad with an advantage that other non-Chinese players will have difficulty getting into.

«Chinese internet companies are increasingly investing in mobile device hardware development, platforms and distribution as they aim to grow their user bases and increase user loyalty and engagement,» concluded Zimmermann.

Not exact matches

Ontario Teachers» has agreed to acquire 3.8 million shares in the company, which produces games including Assassin's Creed and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, while Chinese internet giant Tencent is to buy 5.6 million shares.

Because of that protectionist impulse, the Chinese Internet has come to be dominated by a number of homegrown companies that differ substantially from their Silicon Valley counterparts.

A sale of Yahoo's internet assets would leave the company just owning a 35.5 percent stake in Yahoo Japan Corp., as well as a 15 percent stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., which accounts for most of its value.

A sale of Yahoo's Internet assets for cash, followed by a divestment of its 35.5 % stake in Yahoo Japan, would leave the company owning just its 15 % stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group (baba).

It's been a rough 18 months for Chinese Internet tycoon Jack Ma, founder and chairman of the Alibaba Group, a sprawling conglomerate of Web companies.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has joined together with Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba Group, multinational telecom company ZTE, and China Unicom to develop a blockchain framework for Internet of Things (IoT), called the Blockchain of Things (BoT).

Uber recently earned praise from the head of a major Chinese Internet industry group for behaving more like a Chinese company than like an eBay or an Amazon.

Last week, TechCircle chronicled how Chinese investors have been holding sway among Indian internet companies, with e-commerce behemoth Alibaba investing a large chunk of this money.

August 2016: The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the agency that oversees China's internet censorship, convened a meeting (link in Chinese) in Beijing with internet media companies calling for round - the - clock monitoring of livestreaming videos, as well as censorship of «bullet screen» comments common on the platforms.

Mr. Ma, the Chinese internet tycoon, has worked hard to put a positive face on his companies in the United States.

The city is home to Chinese internet services provider Tencent, which surpassed Wells Fargo in April as the world's 10th biggest company by value.

Earlier this month, the Chinese technology giant announced a partnership with Ford Motor in which the two companies said they would leverage artificial intelligence, cloud computing, the Internet of Things and e-commerce via Tmall to «redefine the consumer journey and user experience for automobiles.»

BMW is working with the Internet - of - Things (IoT) business unit of Alibaba Cloud to deploy the company's BMW Connected in - car infotainment system to Chinese consumers.

The term Great Firewall, then, should be seen as encompassing policy areas well beyond the extensive censorship system, to include forced technology transfer, forced partnership with Chinese partners, ever more sophisticated theft of intellectual property, demands that internet data be «secure and controllable,» legislation allowing government officials to demand access to software source code, and denial of access for major internet platform companies such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook.

Nearly 10 percent of all activity observed during this timeframe involved China, not including the internet access points provided by Chinese telecommunications companies.

Tencent Holdings, the rapidly growing Chinese internet giant, is proving a welcome source of capital to America's fledgling companies, with Snap the latest focus of its deep pockets.