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The Alibaba-backed firm hasn't launched a formal sale process and financial details of the potential deal have yet to be finalized.Read More

Alibaba Launches New Movie Brand to Diversify Portfolio Alibaba Culture and Entertainment Group — the showbiz arm of Alibaba has recently announced its plan to establish a new brand called “Surprise Works” that will focus on the productions of independent film projects. Expected to grow into a Chinese equivalent of…

Tata Group, the Mumbai-headquartered USD 113 billion conglomerate is close to buying 80% stake in e-grocer BigBasket for USD 1.3 billion after five months of negotiations. The deal, which is expected to be a combination of the primary and secondary share sale, values BigBasket at around USD 1.6 billion, said…

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Xiami’s management hasn't made an official announcement in response to the rumors about its closure.Read More

Alibaba suspended its acquisition of iQiyi, a long video platform and a subsidiary of Baidu, due to the lack of agreement on valuation. Tencent, which has been holding separate talks with Baidu, is also putting the plan on hold. It is said that ByteDance may also consider acquiring iQiyi, but…

Jack Ma’s Alibaba has chosen one more logistics opportunity In today’s roundup of regional news headlines, delivery platform Pickupp receives financing from venture funds tied to Alibaba and Swire, PropertyGuru snaps up a Malaysian property data firm, and a Japanese developer and its media company partner agree to buy the…

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On Nov.29, a post on Sina Weibo, Chinese largest microblogging platform, claimed that Alibaba’s music streaming platform Xiami Music（虾米音乐) is going to close down permanently in January 2021. The author was reportedly Universal Music Marketing Director Xiang Zheng and the post went viral in a few hours with official accounts…

What Happened: On November 21, Pinduoduo launched the “Italian National Pavilion” wine-focued livestreaming sessions hosted in partnership with the Italian Foreign Trade Commission (ITA). 420,000 Pinduoduo users ensured the initiative was a great success. Over 20,000 wines and food specialities were sold during the event. Wine transactions, in particular, proved…