Huazhu Hotels acquired a 5% stake in Homeinns for RMB435 million to inflate Homeinns's share price and thus push up the price of its proposed privatization.
Major Chinese hotel chains continue to pursue their expansion plans. HUAZHU Hotels states the roadmap is charted out, featuring a pipeline of 696 hotels.
517NA B2B online ticketing platform, announced it is transferring its shares to a public company system and is listing on China’s New Third Board.
Uroaming, an overseas WiFi service rental platform, announces today that it has raised over $10 million Series A+ funding from Steamboat Ventures and existing investor New Enterprise Associates.
Bugentuan announced it has completed a multi-million RMB Pre-A Series financing that was led by Newsion Venture Capital.
Wechat’s third-party service provider Weimob announced it has already raised RMB500 million of the two billion yuan targeted for its C Series financing.
Beijing Century Mind Education, announced it completed a B Series financing worth an estimated one billion RMB. Ctrip had invested in its previous financing round.
Caissa Touristic could be the key listed platform for HNA Group to consolidate assets starting with Capital Airlines.