Taiwan'S Economic Sector: Alibaba'S Decision To Divest Will Not Change

Alibaba group's Singapore business Alibaba electronic commerce Taiwan branch was invited by the economic authorities of the Taiwan authorities to request the deadline for divestment or pfer in August 24th. Zhang Mingbin, executive secretary of the board of inquiry, said yesterday that Alibaba had expressed the initiative to communicate before, but when the meeting was not yet decided, the decision to withdraw the investment would not be changed.

As for the case of Alibaba setting up the 10 billion Taiwan Youth Venture Fund, Zhang Mingbin said that at present, the other side has not applied to the board. However, there are restrictions on the investment of Vc firms by Lu. In this way, the investment in land can not be controlled. It must be directed by the foreign capital and the Taiwanese. Otherwise, any investment in the venture will need to be examined.

At present, Alibaba is listed in the United States. Its largest shareholder is Japan's software bank and YAHOO, holding 32.4% and 16.3%, while the land owned business team has more than 16% shareholdings, including Alibaba founder Ma Yun's 8.8% stake, and Alibaba executive vice chairman Cai Chongxin 3.6%.

Taiwan Economic Department officials said that in accordance with the "land capital licensing method", third companies to invest in Taiwan, if third of the company's land holdings of more than 3, or third of the company's control capacity, regarded as land capital.

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If a partner is not the largest shareholder, but has actually controlled the operation and is identified as a land fund, he must apply for permission from the board.

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The group set up two branches in Taiwan, including Singapore business Alibaba.

The Taiwan branch of the limited company and the Hongkong branch of Taobao information company, Taiwan branch, are all registered with the business department of Taiwan economic department, but so far they have not applied for permission from the board.

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Ceng Bibo, founder and CEO of oceanic wharf, recently announced internal mail, announcing that the company completed the B round of $100 million financing.

In an interview with reporters, Ceng Bibo pointed out that the future ocean terminal will seize the initiative in the field of mobile Internet.

In addition, the funds will be used to optimize the logistics system, cooperate with overseas manufacturers, and layout international logistics and warehousing.

During last year's "black Friday" campaign, cross-border electricity providers including Miao Tao, Mai Le, Golden hoop and sea, and Hai Tao City have all taken up the banner of "black Friday" and launched the cross-border electricity supplier price war.

Among them, Amazon, Tmall and other giants also entered the cross-border electricity supplier industry last year, which has brought impact to many vertical cross-border electricity providers.

In response, Zeng Bi Bo said that the ocean terminal would "win quickly".

"Fast" can really survive among giants. Analysys International analyst Ma Tao analyzed in an interview with reporters that Tmall international and Amazon's entry will bring financing to the entire cross-border electricity supplier. But by the influence of giants, the competition mode of vertical cross-border electricity providers should be changed slightly. "Competition with giants, deep tillage industry, sales of their services and good experience" is the way to survive in the giant.

It is understood that the ocean wharf has completed two rounds of financing, namely, the 5 million yuan angel from angel Bay in 2010 and the ten million yuan A financing from Softbank Sai Fu in early 2014.

From 2010 to 2013, foreign terminals met with investors: Chen Xing, Jingwei and Alibaba's strategic investment department.

However, Zeng Bi Bo expresses great pressure on the B round of financing.

It means that investors will have to bear fruit. The sales volume of ocean wharf is close to 7 hundred million in 2014, so how to reach four times and five times in 2015?

"Our B round of financing is actually taking the C round of money, from the internal point of view, the team is difficult to carry, the pressure is very great."

Public information shows that the cross-border electricity supplier industry began to break out in 2014, and the domestic electricity supplier giants have also entered the industry with their own resources.

Zeng Bi Bo spent 3 months on the impact of the giant's entry into the market for hundreds of millions of dollars in the B round.

Ceng Bibo said that if the ocean wharf is competing with other start-up companies, A rounds and B rounds are almost the same stage, and there is no need to be too radical.

But now that giants are entering, there are some changes in their gameplay. If the B round takes 30 million yuan for such a scale, it will be dangerous in 2015.

Because the industry will certainly shuffle, "we want to save, we have to spend the winter, so the B round took a lot of money".