Close the Silicon Valley office and return to the science and technology board? Weilai Automobile responded to these contents as false reports.
Big company
Ali is considering multiple listing schedules, raising up to $15 billion< /span>
The Hong Kong Economic Times quoted sources as saying that Alibaba is considering several different timetables for listing and plans to raise between $10 billion and $15 billion (about 78 billion to 117 billion Hong Kong dollars). Sources pointed out that Alibaba is most likely to launch Hong Kong IPO in the third quarter, the most likely time in late August, or will become the largest IPO this year, but Alibaba announced its second quarter results last week, against Hong Kong The listing is not mentioned. The news revealed that Alibaba’s thoughts on the matter “have variables” and said the company is considering multiple timetables for listing. (Finance News Agency)
It was learned that Weilai’s official Weibo clarified the information such as “Closed Silicon Valley Office”: media reports such as Zhongwei’s back and forth, and the closure of the Silicon Valley office were all false reports. The Silicon Valley office is an important part of Weilai’s global strategic layout and has been in normal operation. Wei Lai currently focuses on system efficiency improvement, and employee optimization is carried out in an orderly manner. Wei Lai has no plans to return to the board in the near future.
Sensor Tower: Vibrato and TikTok hit a new high in July, up 290% year-on-year %
It was learned that the intelligence data of the Sensor Tower store showed that in July 2019, the revenue of the bytebeat and its overseas version of TikTok reached a new high. In July, its in-app purchase revenue reached $11.7 million, an increase of 290% from the estimated revenue of $3 million in the same period last year. In July, Chinese iOS users spent nearly $8.2 million on the currency, accounting for 70% of the global app store and Google Play revenue.
Investment and financing
PwC: China’s M&A transaction volume fell 18% in the first half of the year %
The latest data released today by PricewaterhouseCoopers shows that in the first half of 2019, the amount of M&A activity in China was US$264.4 billion, down 18% from the second half of last year, the largest semi-annual decline in the past decade. The decline in overseas M&A and private equity fund transactions by Chinese mainland companies led to a decline in total M&A transactions, but the growth of domestic strategic investor transactions slowed the overall decline. (China Securities Network)
“Everything is getting millions of angel rounds of financing
It is learned that recently, the consumer scene social service platform “equal interest” has received millions of angel financing from capital and individual investors. This round of financing will be mainly used to strengthen product development, team building and model market. Development. According to the official introduction, while the interesting platform provides services such as live customers and business conversion for upstream cooperative service providers in the consumption scenario, the other side provides services such as customer acquisition and consumption upgrade for downstream cooperation suppliers.
New Products
Sogou input method online AI assistant, transition to smart service
August 19th, Sogou input method announced the launch of a new feature intelligent Wang Zi, introducing AI assistant in the input method. According to the introduction of Sogou input method, after the upgrade, the intelligent Wang Tsai can provide the god map and expression recommendation; according to the keyword, the user can recommend the fighting figure expression; carry out poetry association, lyric association, popular word association and so on. At the same time, Sogou input method can be combined with the content input by the user to give a beautification alternative copy. (Tencent first line)
It was learned that Huawei’s consumer business CEO Yu Chengdong sent a video on Weibo, saying that the Huawei IFA2019 conference will be held in Berlin, Germany on September 6th. The theme of the conference is “Under the Future”, Kirin 990 will be in this time. Debut at the event.
On August 19th, People’s Daily Online, Tencent, and Medical Duyun jointly created an authoritative health science popularization library – “People’s Medical Code” officially launched, and the future three parties will jointly promote new media around the “People’s Medical Code” IP. (People’s Network)
Today’s point of view
IDC Wu Lianfeng: China’s software and IT security services have a larger development space < /a>
Wu Lianfeng, vice president and chief analyst of IDC China Research, said at the Internet Security Conference that by 2022, at least 60% of the world’s GDP will be a digital economy, and China’s proportion will reach 65%, higher than the global ratio. At present, the global share of China’s cybersecurity market is much larger than that of GDP and IT. He also said that in terms of the network security market, China is still dominated by hardware. In the future, China’s software and IT security services will have more room for development. (China Securities Network)
Tan’an Vice President Tan Benhong: Half of Chinese auto brands will be eliminated >
Tan Benhong, vice president of Changan Automobile, said at the 2019 Global Automotive Industry Innovation Conference, “China’s autos are undergoing transformation and upgrading, and the competitive landscape will change. From traditional competition to competition in the ecological circle, the main players of competition will also The single evolution to diversification. The survival of the fittest is more obvious, 50% of Chinese auto brands will cease to exist for a while. Of course, the new forces will also face greater pressure to build cars.” (21st Century Business Herald) Br>