Coco Liu
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Didi Chuxing advances IPO plans to next quarter, targets $62b valuation
The debut would hand another triumph to investor SoftBank and Masayoshi Son.
China wants Alibaba to shed media properties including South China Morning Post
The company has stakes in the Twitter-like Weibo and several news outlets.
Ant-backed bike-sharing firm Hello TransTech files confidentially for IPO
Previously known as HelloBike, the startup is one of the few firms to survive China’s bike-sharing bubble.
How Chinese gay dating app Blued blazed a trail to the US stock market
The company has a market valuation of $335 million and counts DCM Ventures, Shunwei Capital as backers.
China’s e-commerce giants JD.com, Alibaba rebound from pandemic
In their earnings call, both e-commerce giants credited the pandemic for their explosive growth.
Taiwan to block streaming services of China’s Tencent, Baidu
The new regulation is subject to public review and scheduled to take effect on September 3.
US-listed Chinese e-learning major TAL Education admits to inflated sales
TAL's admission marks the second Chinese accounting scandal in less than a week.
Asian startups face cash crunch as COVID-19 cuts off funding
Funds raised by Asia-focused venture capital firms fell to a seven-year low of $2.2 billion in the first quarter.
Inside China’s ByteDance, the world’s most valuable startup
TikTok, today, is the third-most downloaded nongame app in the world.
China’s SenseTime said to seek up to $1b funding, defer HK IPO
New share sales in Hong Kong, the world's largest IPO market last year, were down 93% to $49 million in February from the same period a year earlier.
