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 […]
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Priceline Group Announces Additional US$250M Investment in Ctrip
The overseas online travel service company Priceline Group Inc. today announced that it will invest an additional US$250 million in Ctrip.com International, Ltd. , China’s leading online travel company. This investment follows a commercial relationship established between the two companies in 2012, which was expanded in August 2014 along with the US$500 million investment by The Priceline Group. Immediately following issuance of the […]
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Qunar or Alitrip: Which Will Be China’s Travel Taobao?
In yet another expansion into new markets, Alibaba launched Alitrip (or Qu’a (去啊) in Chinese) in late October. Like the e-commerce giant’s other market places, Alitrip is a platform for travel agencies big and small to set up online storefronts. Vendors on Alitrip have the same resources as Taobao and Tmall retailers, such as Alipay […]
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China’s Ticketing Site LY.com Lands Nearly $1B USD Funding Led By Wanda Group
LY.com (formerly 17U.com or Tongcheng), one of China’s largest ticketing websites, has secured more than 6 billion RMB ($967 million USD) funding from a consortium led by Chinese real estate conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group, Tencent Industrial Capital, CITIC Capital Holdings as well as other institutions. The company did not specify the stakes each investors are acquiring. The investment, which marks […]
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China’s Meituan and Dianping Merge To Form O2O Giant
Meituan and Dianping, the two leading group-buying providers, often dubbed the respective Groupon and Yelp of China, have agreed to form a joint venture with equal shares valued between $15 billion and $17 billion USD, according to statements from both companies and their investors. The match-up marks the end of another O2O service war in China, […]
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Ctrip Invests $200 million in LY.com, Becoming Its Second Largest Shareholder
China’s leading online travel service Ctrip announced today it has invested more than USD200 million in cash in LY.com, one of its competitors, becoming the second largest shareholder in the latter. It’s undisclosed what a percentage Ctrip has taken in LY, but rumor says it’s about 30%. LY.com, formerly 17u.cn, wasn’t well-known in China’s online travel […]
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Online Hotel Distribution Solution Developer DerbySoft Raises $9 million from DCM
DerbySoft Inc., a hotel distribution connectivity and caching technology service provider, has raised $9 million in Series D funding from DCM Ventures China Fund. DerbySoft connects central reservations systems (CRS) of hotels and third-parties to online booking and search services, such as Booking.com, Google, Kayak, Travelocity and Tripadvisor. Since it’s headquartered in Shanghai, China, the company also […]
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Korean Founded B5M Bets Big on Shopping Search in China
Few investors would like to invest in the first shopping search engine Yin Rujie founded in the U.S. in late 1990’s. Investors he approached back then argued that e-commerce sites wouldn’t let him index items on their sites for price comparison. Mr. Yin finally managed to raise some funding and later on founded another shopping search […]
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Tech in China 2013: Chinese Tech Stocks Recovering?
Two Chinese tech stocks SouFun Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: SFUN) and Qihoo 360 Technology (NYSE: QIHU) ranked No. 2 and No. 4 respectively of the top 10 best-performing tech stocks by total return in the US stock market in 2013, according to this Forbes post published on December 23th (The writer doesn’t believe there will be any […]
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Tech in China: Boom of Taxi Apps in 2013
Technology developments have given rise to new solutions for urban transportation. Taxi apps gained popularity quickly in Chinese market this year, attracting sizable investments from leading venture capitalists and Internet companies. The leading ones include Beijing-based Didi Dache, Hangzhou-based Kuaidi Dache, Beijing-based YaoyaoZhaoche, and Shanghai-based Dahuangfeng. DidiDache received $15 million of funding from Tencent at valuation of […]
