Alibaba investit $590M dans Meizu

[Kingu Prima]

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/alibaba-expands-into-smartphones-investing-590-million-in-xiaomi-rival-2015-02-09?mod=mw_share_twitter

 

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is expanding into the smartphone business, with a $590 million investment in the start-up Meizu Technology Co.

Alibaba BABA, -1.52%  and Meizu issued a joint announcement Monday morning, saying they would form a “long-term strategic cooperative partnership,” with Alibaba providing support to Meizu on e-commerce, mobile Internet, data analysis and payment service, while Meizu would offer its experience in smartphone operating systems, market strategy and off-line sales, according to various Chinese media reports.

Meizu lags behind some larger competitors such as Lenovo Group Ltd.0992, +3.48% LNVGF, +0.00%  and Huawei Technologies Co. 002502, +0.42%

However, Meizu’s MX4 model is the best-selling mid-priced phone in China, followed by the M4, made by Xiaomi Inc., according to a 2014 MTrend survey. Meizu has also made news with a sometimes public rivalry with Xiaomi, which is China’s most popular domestic smartphone maker overall.

Alibaba Chief Technology Officer Wang Jian said the investment represented “an important expansion of Alibaba’s ecosystem and a key step in our mobile strategy,” according to a report Monday on the Sina Corp. SINA, -0.68%  news portal Sina Tech.

Alibaba and Meizu began talks on the tie-up in October, when Wang met with Meizu’s founder Huang Zhang in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai, where Meizu is based, the report said.

Announcing the deal on their official weibo (microblogging) accounts, both Alibaba and Meizu simply forwarded the Sina report along with a smiley-face emoji icon.

Chinese media has long characterized Meizu, founded in 2003, and larger competitor Xiaomi as bitter enemies.

The two companies’ executives were involved in a verbal dispute on Weibo in September over marketing strategies and accusations of slander, while back in 2012, some Meizu supporters accused Xiaomi’s Mi2 phone as copying the earlier Meizu MX model.

Meizu sold more than 1.5 million handsets in January, a jump of 50% over the previous month, Huang said on his Weibo account Friday.

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