The merger of China’s Meituan, a “Groupon for China,” and Dianping, “China’s Yelp,” to create a $15 billion giant respectively backed by Alibaba and Tencent as well as several prominent VC firms, marks the largest combo in China’s Internet industry in a year when Internet deals involving Chinese companies are pegged at $58.4 billion, nearly double the amount for...
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It’s remarkable to see so many Asian startups placing in the top tier of global companies valued at 1$ billion or more by venture capital firms. See Billion $ Club. China claims the most with eight, followed by India with four. In a signal that the Startup Asia story is spreading throughout the region, South Korea...
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