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Tencent Holdings, the Chinese internet gaming and social media conglomerate, has agreed to acquire a $736m stake in an online classified ads site, the latest purchase in a race with rival Alibaba to snap up internet assets.
中國游戲和社交媒體集團騰訊控股(Tencent Holdings)已達成協議，斥資7.36億美元買入一家分類廣告網站的股份。這是騰訊與其對手阿里巴巴(Alibaba)開展的收購互聯網資產競賽中最新的一起收購。
Tencent will snap up a 19.9 per cent stake in Nasdaq-listed 58.com, a move the Chinese group said would expand online shopping options for customers of its WeChat and QQ online messaging services.
騰訊將買入在納斯達克(Nasdaq)上市的58同城(58.com) 19.9%的股份。這家中國集團表示，此舉將擴大其微信(WeChat)及QQ在線聊天服務客戶的在線購物選擇。
The 58.com site, often described as China’s equivalent of Craigslist, floated in the US last November and has since seen its share price more than double.
58同城常被稱為中國版的Craigslist，該網站去年11月在美國上市，自那以來股價上漲一倍多。
Both Tencent, Asia’s largest internet group by market cap, and Alibaba have been racing to acquire internet assets for the past year to try to outflank each other and dominate the Chinese internet market.
過去一年，不論是騰訊還是阿里巴巴都在競相買入互聯網資產，試圖以此勝過對手，主導中國互聯網市場。目前騰訊是亞洲市值最大的互聯網集團。
Alibaba has bought into media and entertainment companies, while Tencent’s focus has been chipping away at Alibaba’s stronghold in ecommerce.
阿里巴巴已對媒體和娛樂企業開展了一系列收購，而騰訊則把主要精力放在蠶食阿里巴巴對電子商務的霸占上。
Analysts broadly perceive Tencent to be ahead of Alibaba in the race to dominate the mobile internet sector – a challenge for the companies given they were originally based on non-mobile internet offerings.
考慮到兩家企業最初都建立在非移動互聯網服務基礎上，移動互聯網對兩者都是一大挑戰。分析師們普遍認為，在主導移動互聯網板塊的競賽中，騰訊走在了阿里巴巴前面。
Alibaba, which is preparing for an IPO in the US, has spent more than $6bn in the past year acquiring assets such as the internet browser UCWeb and online map maker AutoNavi.
目前，阿里巴巴正在籌備其在美國的首次公開發行(IPO)。過去一年里，該公司已斥資逾60億美元收購各種資產，如互聯網瀏覽器UCWeb和在線地圖制作商高德(AutoNavi)。
