驚聞阿里巴巴入股優酷土豆

Alibaba Group's shopping spree rolls on. Chinese video platform Youku Tudou Inc. announced Monday afternoon that the e-commerce giant and a private equity firm owned by founder and Executive Chairman Jack Ma had agreed to pay $1.2 billion for a combined 18.5 percent stake in Youku Tudou Inc., China's answer to Youtube. Youku Tudou is listed on Nasdaq; Alibaba itself plans to list in New York later this year.

阿里巴巴集團(Alibaba Group)的收購狂歡仍在繼續。中國視頻平臺優酷土豆集團(Youku Tudou Inc.)週一下午宣佈，阿里巴巴和一家由該公司創始人兼執行主席馬雲(Jack Ma)擁有的私募股權公司同意斥資12億美元收購優酷土豆18.5%的股權。優酷土豆已在納斯達克上市，阿里巴巴計劃今年晚些時候在紐約上市。

Increased cooperation resulting from the stake in Youku Tudou's online TV business could help Alibaba's online shopping empire. 'Alibaba could get a potential killer app on smart TV's and integrate it with online shopping,' a Nomura analyst noted earlier on Monday, speculating about the likelihood of a Chinese internet giant taking a stake in Youku Tudou.

Reuters馬雲，照片攝於2013年11月。此次入股將使阿里巴巴能夠接觸到優酷土豆的網絡電視業務，進而將帶來更多的將有助於阿里巴巴網絡購物帝國的合作。野村(Nomura)一位分析師週一早些時候在猜測阿里巴巴入股優酷土豆的可能性時指出，阿里巴巴可以藉此獲得智能電視領域的一個潛在殺手級應用，將其和網上購物整合起來。

Alibaba seems to be trying to push through as many deals as possible before it becomes subject to the investor and regulatory scrutiny of a U.S. listing. Just in the past year, Alibaba and its founders have spent billions of dollars on companies in businesses from microblogs and travel booking to cloud-storage and department stores.

在阿里巴巴的赴美上市計劃受到投資者和監管機構審查前，該公司似乎正在嘗試儘可能多地進行一些收購交易。僅去年一年，阿里巴巴及其創始人就花費了數十億美元投資了多家公司，這些公司的業務涵蓋微博、旅行預訂、雲儲存和百貨商店等領域。

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. advised Youku Tudou on the deal, while Morgan Stanley advised Alibaba.

高盛集團(Goldman Sachs Group Inc.)和摩根士丹利(Morgan Stanley)分別擔任優酷土豆和阿里巴巴的顧問行。