Will Alibaba Draw VCs Back to China?
Although the American financial press seems preoccupied with Twitter’s impending IPO, Alibaba’s IPO could be an even bigger story. The China-based e-commerce juggernaut, which could go public as early...
View ArticleChina’s Economy Has Hit the Skids; Why Haven’t Internet Investors Noticed?
China’s economic growth has slowed to a quarter-century low of 7.4 percent. You wouldn’t know it, though, looking at the gigantic rounds that China-based Internet companies are raising. Just this week,...
View ArticleStrictlyVC: January 22, 2015
Hi, happy Thursday, everyone! (Web visitors, click here for an easy-to-read version of this email newsletter.) —– Top News in the A.M. Amazon is reportedly in talks to buy the stealth-mode Israeli...
View ArticleBen Thompson on What Xiaomi Gets Just Right
Ben Thompson, a Taipei, Taiwan-based writer with a sharp understanding of consumer tech, has attracted a loyal and growing base of readers to his one-man media company, Stratechery. Thompson has also...
View ArticleU.S. Companies Backing Out of U.S. Indices? Maybe Not
It’s been a big story of late. As of mid-June, 14 U.S.-traded China-based companies had received buyout offers valued at a collective $22.4 billion, according to Dealogic. The highest profile of the...
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