App Annie Travels From China Origins To Global Shores
App Annie shows how to go from China roots to global outreach as it scales up its popular tracker of mobile app data, boosted with $63 million in new funding.
App Annie shows how to go from China roots to global outreach as it scales up its popular tracker of mobile app data, boosted with $63 million in new funding.
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Alibaba’s investment of $1.25 billion in an 020 food delivery app creates another Chinese unicorn startup even in these tighter venture times.
Some of China’s once-hot startups are now feeling the pinch of tighter capital as the go-go days are fading.
Apple Pay and Samsung Pay are entering the Chinese mobile payments market by striking deal with state-owned UnionPay, but are going up against entrenched Alibaba’s Alipay and Tencent’s Tenpay.
Qihoo’s huge go-private deal could spark more Chinese tech companies to head home and list anew in Shanghai or Shenzhen.