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Baidu leads $300M investment to bring its search smarts to elevator ads

China’s largest search engine Baidu is getting an offline revenue boost after it led a $300 million strategic round in Xinchao Media, a company that shows people ads when they’re waiting f

LinkedIn’s China rival Maimai raises $200M ahead of planned US IPO

Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on TechNode, an editorial partner of TechCrunch based in China. Maimai, China’s biggest rival to LinkedIn, has revealed today that it received a $200 m

Alibaba boosts its offline reach with $2B+ investment in outdoor digital marketing firm

Alibaba is investing big bucks into offline distribution. The Chinese e-commerce giant has forked out $2.23 billion in exchange for a sizeable piece of Focus Media, a Shanghai-based company that ope

China's Focus Media Sells Internet Division Allyes To Silver Lake For $124 Million

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/allyes.png" class="shot2" /> <a href="http://ir.focusmedia.cn/phoenix.zhtml?c=190067&p=irol-homeprofile">Focus Media</a>, one of China's