By Sue-Lin Wong SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Despite being blocked in China, Twitter is courting Chinese companies to buy advertising space on its service used by more than 300 million people elsewhere in the world. “It’s not a coincidence that we are here now,” Peter Greenberger, director of sales for emerging markets at Twitter, told Reuters on Tuesday. “This seems to be a moment in time where Chinese corporations really feel
Chinese microblog Weibo Corp will invest $142 million in China’s dominant taxi-hailing firms Didi Taxi and Kuaidi Taxi, a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing showed. Weibo said in the filing on Tuesday that it had agreed to invest in the two Chinese companies in the latest round of financing through its Cayman Islands holding company Xiaoju Kuaizhi Inc, a move that will help lure in riders and fend off
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European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis, who is in charge of euro matters, denied a Greek government statement that a deal is close with international creditors. “We are still not there,” Dombrovskis told reporters in Brussels.
