Joseph Tartakoff
Sep 16, 2010 1:00 PM
Chinese video site Ku6 is licensing rights to “several hundred” films and TV shows from Sony (NYSE: SNE) and a second, unnamed Hollywood studio, which it says makes it the first Chinese video portal to “acquire legitimate copyright content from major Hollywood studios.” The deal comes nearly 10 months after…
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Tameka Kee
Dec 22, 2009 6:10 PM
More end-of-year activity in China’s online video market. Sohu and Shanda—two of China’s largest online entertainment and media companies—plan to invest up to $10 million in a new fund that will buy Hollywood film and TV content licenses. Shanda (NSDQ: SNDA) is investing in the fund through newly-acquired online video…
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Rafat Ali
Jul 21, 2008 12:24 PM
The slew of big Chinese digital media fundings continue: Ku6, the online video sharing site based in Beijing, has received “tens of million” of dollars of funding in its second round. Investors included UMC Capital, SBI, Itochu and Hotung Group. DFJ and DT China, two first-round investors, also increased their…
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