| Date | Title | Description |
| 24.06.2013 | Travel Search Site Wego Closes $17M Series C | Travel search site, Wego, just closed its Series C round of $17 million.
The round was led by Crescent Point, a fund manager with offices in Singapore and China that focuses on investments in Asia.
Wego’s site provides a metasearch across a... |
| 12.03.2013 | Tudou Founder Gary Wang To Launch ‘Pixar Of China,’ Looks To San Francisco And LA For Talent | Gary Wang, the founder of China’s largest online video site Tudou.com, now plans to launch a Beijing-based animated film studio that the Wall Street Journal calls “China’s answer to Pixar” on April 1. Wang says he has already secured “tens ... |
| 12.03.2012 | Top Chinese video sites Youku and Tudou to merge in $1B deal | The top two online-video sites in China, Youku and Tudou, are merging into one super-company that will be called Youku Tudou Inc. The YouTube-esque companies are traded on the NADSAQ as YOKU and TUDO, and will retain separate brand identiti... |
| 12.03.2012 | Top Chinese video sites Youku and Tudou to merge in $1B deal | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The top two online-video sites in China, Youku an... |
| 17.08.2011 | ‘China’s YouTube’ Tudou raises $174M in U.S. IPO | YouTube-like site Tudou has priced its initial public offering (IPO) and will begin trading on the Nasdaq stock market this morning under the symbol TUDO, reports Bloomberg.
The site lets you access movies, TV shows, self-produced content a... |
| 17.08.2011 | ‘China’s YouTube’ Tudou raises $174M in U.S. IPO | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
YouTube-like site Tudou has priced its initial pu... |
| 17.08.2011 | Chinese Online Video Giant Tudou Opens 13 Percent Below IPO Pricing | A rocky financial climate isn’t stopping this IPO—Chinese online video site Tudou has started trading on the NASDAQ this morning under the symbol ‘TUDO.’ Last night, Tudou priced its shares $29 a piece, raising $174 million in the offering.... |
| 08.02.2011 | Could Chinese venture capital back African innovation? | Chinese venture capitalists have clearly stated their desire to see the success of the western venture capital process replicated in their country. State and private firms have begun to take initiatives and institute policy reforms in recen... |
| 08.02.2011 | Could Chinese venture capital back African innovation? | Chinese venture capitalists have clearly stated their desire to see the success of the western venture capital process replicated in their country. State and private firms have begun to take initiatives and institute policy reforms in recen... |
| 25.10.2010 | Premium streaming video 3, YouTube 0: China’s Tudou preps for IPO | Tudou, the number two streaming video site in China, is planning to file an initial public offering to raise up to $150 million on the tech-heavy NASDAQ Composite stock market.
The Chinese streaming site is the latest in a slew of sites tha... |
| 05.08.2010 | Tudou raises $50M more for mobile video explosion | Chinese video site Tudou just announced that it has raised a $50 million fifth round of funding.
The site went live on April 15, 2005, and says it now hosts more than 38 million videos. Beijing-based research company Analysys told the Finan... |
| 05.08.2010 | Tudou Closes US$50M Series E Funding Round | Tudou, a Shangai, China-based online video platform where users can upload, view and share video clips, has closed a US$50m Series E funding round.
The investment was led by Singapore- based Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd., which committed US$35... |
| 14.06.2010 | How the Chinese Internet Needs to Up Its Game | Back in March I thought that Google pulling out of China would hurt Google’s Chinese employees and shareholders more than anyone. The search engine was a distant number two in the market to Baidu, and many of the people already using Google... |
| 28.04.2010 | Huzzah! The iPhone 4G gets a Chinese clone [update: now with video!] | How many Shanzai does it take to clone the new iPhone? Apparently one and he doesn’t need very long to do it, either. Hot on the heels of the iPhone leak Chinese cloners are already producing iPhone-alikes that look just like the iPhone HD/... |
| 18.04.2010 | The Chinese Matrix and the War of Internet Addiction | Frank Yu is a Chief Product Officer with BokanTech in Beijing. He also writes the China Angle Column for the Game Developer’s Conference website Gamasutra.
Sometimes in the bustle of news and product launches, we tend to overlook some signi... |
| 31.01.2010 | In The Limelight: An American Entrepreneur In China Talks About Startup Culture | Calvin Chin is an American entrepreneur who lives in Shanghai. He founded Qifang, a P2P lending site for Chinese student loans. You can read more about Qifang here. He attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this last week, ... |
| 06.01.2010 | China’s Baidu launches premium video service, aims to staunch piracy | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
There’s a gap in the online video market in China... |
| 06.01.2010 | China’s Baidu launches premium video service, aims to staunch piracy | There’s a gap in the online video market in China: extremely high-quality videos for users seeking a better experience.
Now Chinese search engine Baidu is stepping in to fill that role, launching an independent venture that will focus on de... |
| 20.12.2009 | Chinese video website Youku raises $40M more, furthering arms race | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Youku.com, one of the largest and fastest growing... |
| 20.12.2009 | Chinese video website Youku raises $40M more, furthering arms race | Youku.com, one of the largest and fastest growing Chinese video websites, said Sunday evening it has raised $40 million in its latest round of funding and signaled that it expects to raise up to $40 million more before the round is over.
We... |
| 30.06.2008 | Despite censorship issues, two Chinese online video sites get large rounds of fresh funding | The third-largest video site in China, 56.com, has been offline for nearly a month due to what most observers believe is government censorship. But that’s not stopping rivals from raising more funding.
Youku, approximately tied with Tudou a... |
| 04.06.2008 | Leading Chinese video sharing web sites are having trouble staying online | Youku.com, Tudou.com and 56.com may be the most popular video-sharing sites in China, but within the last few months, they’ve all suffered from downtime — due to what each of these venture-backed companies have said are technical problems.
... |
| 25.03.2008 | Roundup: MySpace in deals with labels, Tudou raises $53M, and more | MySpace nearing deals with music labels — Before long, MySpace may be offering streaming music and ad-supported downloads from Sony BMG and Warner Music Group, according to a report from the NY Post. A deal with the two music giants might c... |
| 21.03.2008 | China moves to sanction video sites, shut down others | China has cracked down on over 50 video-sharing Web sites for distributing content it feels is pornographic, violent or subversive, by either punishing or shutting down the sites altogether.
The Chinese government had published three lists ... |
| 14.02.2008 | Television viewers are going online to watch videos, unevenly | User behavior is surprisingly diverse when it comes to watching online videos, a recent study by Comscore and Media Contacts has found. The data provides a more granular perspective on the surge of people going to online video sites, instea... |
| 07.12.2007 | 56.com aims to become YouTube of China, raises $20M | updated
While YouTube ran away with the video-sharing crown in the United States, the race is still heated in China, the world’s second largest Internet market and fastest-growing.
There, two leaders are fighting it out, Tudou.com and 56.co... |
| 25.04.2007 | Roundup: Jobs misled, VoIP on Blackberry, Zude, Twitter grows, more | Apple’s Steve Jobs dealt setback — Former Apple finance chief Fred Anderson now says Apple chief executive Steve Jobs misled him about stock option accounting. Story here, and statement by Anderson here. Question: Will this bring down Jobs?... |
