土豆网寻求纳斯达克上市 Tudou.com seeks $100m-plus Nasdaq IPO -sources

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source: ChinaDaily

China's online video website, Tudou.com, has hired Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank for a planned initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq, aiming to raise up to $150 million, Reuters reported on Monday, citing unnamed sources.
Tudou plans to list in the first quarter, two sources with direct knowledge of the plan told Reuters. The firm expects to raise between $100 million and $150 million, one added.
Tudou, which is backed by venture capital firms such as IDG China, GGV Capital and General Catalyst, competes with Youku.com and Ku6.com in China. The firm is similar to Google's YouTube and Hulu, streaming millions of online videos and original content daily and allowing users to share files.
More recently, Singapore's state investment firm Temasek invested $35 million in the company, whose name means potato in Mandarin, alluding to the image of a couch potato in front of the television.
Tudou had 16 percent of China's online video market in the second quarter, behind Youku, which had 20 percent, according to data from Analysys International.
"The firm is looking at the first quarter (for a listing)," said one source with knowledge of the deal.
Gary Wang, Tudou's chief executive, told Reuters last year that the firm's main source of revenue was from advertising and that it differentiates itself by producing its own content and chasing tie-ups with production houses.
Youku is also pursuing a public listing as soon as the first quarter of next year, and has also hired investment banks, sources previously told Reuters.