When it comes to China’s internet giants, there’s barely a player that hasn’t entered the world of online financing. Following in the footsteps of Alibaba, many of these companies are looking to finance as a means of subsidizing heavy cash burn rates in their core businesses. Ant Financial, which oversees Alipay, the country’s largest mobile payment service, is […]
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More Than Half Of China Is Now Online, And They’re Mostly Mobile
China has kicked off 2016 with a serious milestone – more than half their 1.37 billion population is now connected to the internet, according to a report released by state-backed China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). As of January first 2016, 688 million Chinese people had access to the internet, accounting for 50.3% of the […]