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\n New Delhi: Chinese internet major Alibaba<\/a>'s mobile business arm is forming a strategic group that will explore opportunities to increase investments in India and has set no ceiling for deployment of funds.<\/p>\n The group's digital media platform UCWeb<\/a> is also planning to collaborate with Paytm and other ecommerce firms to push its content ecosystem.<\/p>\n \"The first one we may see a collaboration between UCWeb India and Paytm and e-commerce platform in which Alibaba has invested,\" Alibaba Mobile Business Group<\/a> President He Xiaopeng<\/a> told in an interview.<\/p>\n Besides Paytm, the group also has investments in Indian ecommerce firm Snapdeal<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tHe is also co-founder of UC Web which today announced that it will pay minimum of Rs 50,000 per month to top 1,000 content creators or writers on its We-Media platform.<\/p>\n \n\tWe-Media is UCWeb's platform where users can register and post their own content like articles, photos, videos etc.<\/p>\n UCWeb, which is looking for space among Google<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>, has announced Rs 5 crore investment as reward to push user generated content in India.<\/p>\n \n\tThe company in January had announced its plans to invest Rs 200 crore for driving content distribution in India over the next 2 years.<\/p>\n Xiaopeng<\/a> said that during his team's stay in India, they are having discussions with venture capitalists to co-invest in the area of media content distribution and development of content ecosystem in India.<\/p>\n \n\t\"We are forming our strategic group here specifically looking into the investment strategy for India. Overall, Alibaba would most probably do strategic investment and strategic acquisition. We would not like to disclose any fixed figure now but it will be very big. There is no cap for it because strategy is for long term,\" Xiaopeng said.<\/p>\n Alibaba group holds majority stake in One97 Communications<\/a> and significant stake in digital payment firm Paytm.<\/p>\n \n\tAlibaba's UCWeb has firmed up its strategy to be one of the choice for users among Google and Facebook. The company has over 50 per cent market share (as per stat counter) in Indian mobile browser segment.<\/p>\n UCWeb's content distribution platform UC News<\/a>, launched in June 2016, has registered 80 million monthly active users in India as of February 2017, Alibaba Mobile Business Group<\/a> GM-Overseas Business Kenny Ye<\/a> said.<\/p>\n \n\tWhen asked if UCWeb has plans to partnering with telecom companies to built infrastructure like Google and Facebook are doing to enhance their reach, Xiaopeng responded affirmatively.<\/p>\n \n\t\"That is yes. Like Chrome (Google's internet browser) has been doing for telecommunication partners, we are also exploring this kind of opportunity with telecom partners. In other ways, there has already been some kind of establishments.<\/p>\n \n\tFor example, Paytm, our partner, is already in infrastructural level of digital payment. It is going to have chemistry with us in the future,\" Xiaopeng said.<\/p>\nHe said UCWeb will soon enter into online ticket bookings space but did not disclose details about it. \n\n<\/body>","next_sibling":[{"msid":57536271,"title":"BSE Telecom index races past Sensex on M&A buzz","entity_type":"ARTICLE","link":"\/news\/bse-telecom-index-races-past-sensex-on-ma-buzz\/57536271","category_name":null,"category_name_seo":"telecomnews"}],"related_content":[],"msid":57540296,"entity_type":"ARTICLE","title":"Alibaba's UCWeb plans big India investment, to partner Paytm","synopsis":"New Delhi, Mar 8 () Chinese internet major Alibaba's mobile business arm is forming a strategic group that will explore opportunities to increase investments in India and has set no ceiling for deployment of funds.","titleseo":"telecomnews\/alibabas-ucweb-plans-big-india-investment-to-partner-paytm","status":"ACTIVE","authors":[],"Alttitle":{"minfo":""},"artag":"PTI","artdate":"2017-03-08 20:19:28","lastupd":"2017-03-08 20:21:43","breadcrumbTags":["Alibaba","Google","Facebook","industry","One97 Communications","SnapDeal","UCWeb","Mobile Business Group","Kenny Ye","Alibaba Mobile Business Group","UC News","india overall alibaba","xiaopeng","he xiaopeng","paytm alibaba"],"secinfo":{"seolocation":"telecomnews\/alibabas-ucweb-plans-big-india-investment-to-partner-paytm"}}" data-authors="[" "]" data-category-name="" data-category_id="" data-date="2017-03-08" data-index="article_1">
新德里3月8日()中国互联网主要阿里巴巴的移动业务部门形成一个战略集团,将探索机会增加投资在印度和没有设置上限为部署资金。 新德里:中国互联网专业阿里巴巴的移动业务部门形成一个战略集团,将探索机会增加投资在印度和没有设置上限为部署资金。 集团数字媒体平台UCWeb还计划与Paytm和其他电子商务公司合作,推动其内容生态系统。 “第一个我们可以看到UCWeb Paytm和印度之间的协作和电子商务平台阿里巴巴投资”阿里巴巴移动业务集团总统他Xiaopeng在一次采访中说。 除了Paytm,该集团在印度电子商务公司也有投资Snapdeal。 他也是加州大学的联合创始人Web今天宣布,它将支付至少每月50000卢比1000强内容创造者或作家在其国家语委平台。 国家语委UCWeb的平台,用户可以注册并发布自己的内容和文章,图片,视频等。 UCWeb,寻找空间谷歌和脸谱网宣布,5卢比投资奖励将在印度用户生成内容。 公司在1月份宣布计划投资200卢比驾驶内容分布在印度在未来2年。 Xiaopeng说,在他的团队在印度,他们正在讨论与风险投资家投资领域的媒体内容的分布和发展在印度内容生态系统。 “我们正在形成战略小组专门研究印度的投资策略。总体而言,阿里巴巴将最有可能做战略投资和战略收购。我们不愿意透露任何固定的图,但这将是非常大的。没有限制,因为战略是长期的,”发源地。并且 阿里巴巴集团持有多数股权One97通信数字和重大的股份公司Paytm付款。 阿里巴巴UCWeb敲定了其战略的选择为用户在谷歌和Facebook。公司拥有超过50%的市场份额(按统计计数器)在印度移动浏览器。 UCWeb的内容分发平台加州大乐动扑克学新闻成立于2016年6月,注册8000万每月活跃用户在印度2017年2月,阿里巴巴移动业务集团GM-Overseas业务肯尼你们说。 当被问及UCWeb计划与电信公司合作建立基础设施像Google和Facebook正在加强,发源地回应并且肯定地。 “那是肯定的。像Chrome(谷歌的互联网浏览器)已经做了电信合作伙伴,我们也在探索这种机会与电信合作伙伴。在其他方面,已经有一些类型的机构。 我们的合作伙伴,例如,Paytm已经在基础设施水平的数字付款。它将在未来,化学与我们“发源地说。并且印度阿里巴巴UCWeb计划大举投资,合作伙伴Paytm
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