China's Ku6 Media Company Ltd., which boasts a new focus on Internet video services after dumping its poor wireless services offerings and its old name of Hurray, today announced its unaudited financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2010. On August 17, 2010, the company announced that it changed its name to Ku6 [...]
Shanda Completes Ku6 Deal
18 August 2010
Chinese online game firm Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited announced that it has completed its business swap with Ku6 Media Company Limited. The companies entered into the transaction on June 1, 2010. Ku6 has now acquired 75% of an online audio business from Shanda in exchange for 415,384,615 newly issued ordinary shares of Ku6, and it [...]
China's Linktone Resurrects Business With Singapore Acquisition
23 March 2010
Days after announcing a drop in mobile revenue for last year, Chinese wireless value-added services firm Linktone Ltd. has now announced a new acquisition of a Singapore company.
Linktone announced that it together with its major shareholder, PT Media Nusantara Citra Tbk, have completed the acquisition of 75% of the share capital of InnoForm Group. InnoForm [...]
New Chinese Mobile Content Rules Will Adversely Affect KongZhong's Revenue
27 January 2010
Chinese wireless value-added services firm KongZhong Corporation has issued an update on schemes within the [...]
China's 360 To Explore Mobile Phone Security Industry
22 January 2010
Chinese Internet security software provider 360 has announced plans to acquire Msafe.com.cn, a Chinese mobile [...]
Linktone Pays USD9 Million For Controlling Stake In Chinese Mobile Game Company
13 January 2010
Chinese wireless value-added services firm Linktone Ltd. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire [...]
Hutchison Whampoa To Buy Out Hutchison Telecom
05 January 2010
Hutchison Telecommunications International has announced that its parent company Hutchison Whampoa, the Hong Kong-headquartered innovation [...]
KongZhong Makes New Online Game Acquisition In China
16 December 2009
Just a week after announcing that its revenue would be greatly impacted by new anti-pornography [...]
Hurray Buys Chinese Internet Video Firm Ku6.com
30 November 2009
The rumors from last week are correct: Chinese online video service Ku6.com has been purchased [...]
KongZhong Buys Chinese Mobile Game Developer
22 June 2009
Chinese wireless value-added services firm KongZhong Corporation announced that it is planning to buy Simlife International Inc., a mobile game developer in China.
KongZhong has agreed to pay USD3 million in cash to the shareholders of Simlife. An additional payment of USD1.25 million in cash and the issuance of 6 million of KongZhong's ordinary shares to [...]
KongZhong Buys Chinese Mobile Game Developer
22 June 2009
Chinese wireless value-added services firm KongZhong Corporation announced that it is planning to buy Simlife International Inc., a mobile game developer in China.
KongZhong has agreed to pay USD3 million in cash to the shareholders of Simlife. An additional payment of USD1.25 million in cash and the issuance of 6 million of KongZhong's ordinary shares to [...]
Shanda To Spend USD46.2 Million Buying Majority Stake In Mobile Firm
09 June 2009
Ending weeks of speculation and public whining, Chinese online gaming firm Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited is planning to buy a majority stake in wireless value-added services company Hurray.
Chen Tianqiao, chairman of the board of Shanda, stated, "We respect the work by Hurray's board and management and their efforts in defining Hurray's strategies and direction and [...]
Hurray's Mobile Revenues Fall In China As It Drops Further Investor Guidance
22 May 2009
Embattled Chinese wireless value-added services firm Hurray Holding Company Ltd. says its total revenues plummeted 18.5% quarter-over-quarter to USD11.8 million as it announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009, and stated it would not continue to provide quarterly guidance.
The company's USD11.8 million in total revenues was also a decrease [...]
Best Prospect Begs For Hurray To Engage In Acquisition Talks
20 May 2009
Best Prospect Overseas Limited's Jacky Tung has bedeviled Chinese wireless value-added services firm Hurray with another open letter that practically begs for more acquisition talks.
Addressing the open letter to Qindai Wang, chairman of Hurray, Tung responds today to Hurray's press release of May 14, in which the company says it is not interested in a [...]
Hurray's Statement Still Leaves Doubt About Chosen Suitor
15 May 2009
After days of rumors and press releases surrounding possible acquisitions of China's beleaguered wireless value-added services firm Hurray, the company has issued a statement about where it stands on the issue.
The statement reads: "Hurray! Holding Co. Ltd. announced that it had received from Best Prospect Overseas Limited an expression of interest in acquiring a 51% [...]
Shanda Rumored To Be Buying Hurray While Best Prospect Whines About Acquisition
13 May 2009
In a letter to shareholders of Chinese wireless value-added services firm Hurray, Best Prospect Overseas Limited has stated that Hurray's management and board "seems to believe that they do not need to answer, or even listen, to Hurray!'s shareholders".
Best Prospect is trying to buy a 51% stake in the beleaguered WVAS firm, and in its [...]
China Mobile To Acquire 12% Stake In Far Eastone Telecommunications
30 April 2009
Chinese telecommunications operator China Mobile has announced that the company has invested NTD17.77 billion, which is about CNY3.6 billion, in acquiring a 12% stake in the Taiwan-based telecommunications company Far Eastone Telecommunications.
China Mobile said it will purchase 444 million shares of Far Eastone Telecommunications at the price of NTD40 per share through its wholly-owned subsidiary [...]
Hurray Finds A Company That Actually Might Want To Make A Deal
30 April 2009
Chinese mobile value-added service company Hurray Holding Company Ltd. might have a suitor, as the company announced it has received an offer to sell a 51% stake.
Fittingly called Best Prospect Overseas Limited, Best Prospect has reportedly expressed interest in acquiring a 51% stake in Hurray. The expression of interest is subject to the satisfactory completion [...]
China Mobile May Acquire MTN's Assets
03 April 2009
Chinese telecommunications operator China Mobile is considering the acquisition of a part of the South African telecommunications operator MTN Group's assets in Iran, Syria, and Sudan, with a total value of about USD2 billion.
According to local media reports, China Mobile is looking for partners in the telecommunications industry to jointly bid for these assets. At [...]
China Mobile May Acquire MTN's Assets
03 April 2009
Chinese telecommunications operator China Mobile is considering the acquisition of a part of the South African telecommunications operator MTN Group's assets in Iran, Syria, and Sudan, with a total value of about USD2 billion.
According to local media reports, China Mobile is looking for partners in the telecommunications industry to jointly bid for these assets. At [...]






