Wedding videos don’t always turn out the way their makers intended (all that shaky camerawork). Youku and Tudou, China’s two biggest online video websites, may have higher hopes for their own marriage. Their merger agreement yesterday will see the two companies combine in a $4.5bn, all-share transaction to compete better in the world’s biggest internet market. It is a defensive move: growth in China’s online video market may well have peaked.
婚禮錄像并不總能達到新人們的預期,想想那些晃動的畫面吧。但中國兩家最大的在線視頻網(wǎng)站——優(yōu)酷(Youku)和土豆(Tudou)——對它們的聯(lián)姻寄予了厚望。這兩家公司于3月11日以100%換股的方式達成合并協(xié)議,合并后的公司市值45億美元,此舉旨在加強它們在世界上最大互聯(lián)網(wǎng)市場上的競爭地位。這也是一種防御性的舉措:中國在線視頻市場的增長或許已經(jīng)過了巔峰期。