【Native Speaker每日综合训练—35系列】【35-14】经管 Weibo IPO

psychoarya

［speaker］
China is a BRIC country. BRIC means Brazil, Russia, India and China.
China is also a sick country. SICK means Syria, Iran, and North Korea.
So China is a SICK BRIC country.
Not only does China have the Great Wall, it also has the biggest firewall.
The freedom of speech has become a kind of political tool in China.
The U.S. also has its own small cute but bad cats. We should prevent them from hooking up together.

［speed］
2:24’81
Weibo’s main competitor is Wechat of Tencent. And it’s growth is slow in recent time. The chief executive says that Sina will invest more money in platforms and in promotions.

2:11
the functions of Weibo and where its revenues stem from.
The cooperation between Sina and Alibaba.

2:52
Underwriters cannot find enough demand to buy Sina Weibo’s shareholders.
The chief executive said that what matters most is the listing of Sina Weibo.

1:23
Sina and Wechat are distinct. Wechat users restrict their space within more private sphere, whereas Sina is more public.
And the executive said that Sina is good at complying with laws and regulations.

1:59’13
Sina Weibo’s IPO is not going as well as planned, due to the challenges it is confronted with.
First is the technology, then its competitor Wechat. Weibo users use Weibo less frequently to know about information.
And the results of several companies’ IPO are not going well either.

[obstacle]
7:45
(1)A lot of users have changed their social circles from Weibo to Wechat.
(2)public accounts on Wechat can spread information more quietly than Weibo.
(3)Tencent has a intimate relationship with the Chinese party.
(4)once something really happens, Wechat can cause a lot more damage than Weibo.

Lisauce

来迟了555 二环不保！谢谢Tao~

tian767

Speaker
The firewall on China doesn’t reject everything. Behind the wall, weibo, ect have become new media in China.
T2 1:24
Weibo has main competition is WeChat. And Weibo is growing slowly recent year
T3 0:40
Some data of Weibo assets, and strongly suggest long-term invest
T4 0:44
Since Weibo IPO, it has not made a profit, losing 38 million on revenues of 188 million last year
T5 0:43
CEO of Weibo, Chao said the special rules in China wont be a big concern
T6 1:32
Weibo’s IPO is less than PPL had forecast.
O 4:00
Official choice influence to weibo and weichat

阿瓜0826

谢谢TaoRS92!!报名后第三帖。最近熬了好几天夜，刚刚看的时候快睡着了。。。然后被时间吓到了
warm up 01:43
Weibo is preparing for its IPO in the US,where Sina has been listed.The corporation is said to have hired ..AG and Goldman Sach to help its IPO. It is said that Alibaba will increase its stake in Weibo from 18% to 30% once Weibo is listed,more or less helping its own IPO in the future.

Timer 2 2:46
Sina is faced with fierce competition from companies such as Tencent, whose We-chat has attracted more and more oline Chinese.Meanwhile,Sina blog users is said to have droped.
Also, the government has done something, such as arresting some famous commetators,to discourage online activities.
The number of Weibo users is said to have dropped. But the CEO said the drop stemmed from companies other than Sina Weibo, because in fact the users of Sina Weibo have increased.

Timer 3 2:27
Weibo means microblog, which serves as a platform for comment from its users. An example is that in 2011 it offered Chinese a platform to criticize its government's reaction to the collision of two bullet trains.
However,Sina doesn't make much money off Weibo, because it worries that too many advertisements will alienate its users. Currently it is cooperating with Alibaba.
It is said that the listing deal of Weibo will relieve Sina's pressure. Going to public, although means a decrease in holdings from Sina, benefits Sina's future growth.

Timer 4 03:23
Weibo debuted on Nasdaq with a jump of price though it is undersubscribed. It started at $17, jumped to $24.28 and then settled a day in $20. Alibaba benefited from Weibo's debut, as it is also preparing to be listed in the US.Weibo hoped to raise $386 million from its stock,but underwritters didn't find that much demand.The CEO of Sina said the successful listig, rather than current price, really mattered.Weibo serves as a combination of Twitter and facebook, and has had a high growth in recent years.

Timer 5 01:36
Weibo is faced with competition from Wechat, but Chao said the two had ditinct function: Wechat is more private, while Weibo is a public platform in which information distribution is more efficent.He also said the economy downturn in China wouldn't influence Weibo much, because Internet has proved that it is resilient, and sometimes Internet companies even do better in economy downturn.As for worries about censorship, he said every country has its own rule, and Weibo is experienced in complying to regulations a giving people a voice.

Timer 6 01:36
Given the competition Weibo is faced with, the fact that its price is lower than expectation is not surprising.Besides,it is also affected by the censorship on online activities from Beijing.Furthermore,people are worried that the some tech stocks such as Facebook are overpriced,causing a hit to recent IPO of tech stock.For examples,5 companies that went public on Monday and Tuesday all sold their shares less than expected.


Obstacles 07:34
Luo has changed his activities from Weibo to Wechat, because Wechat is more private and thus less likely to be blocked by authorities.
The rise of Wechat reflects how resilient Chinese are in defending their right of expression.
Many peoples have given up their microblogs activities,making it become "vegetable state".
其它的真的记不住了。。。囧  考GMAT前决不能这样熬夜。。TAT

盘腿大王

谢谢楼主~每次主题都很有意义~辛苦了~~
视频没有找到有字幕的 貌似都被和谐了= =。。。不过是中国人讲的 很容易懂

文章比较简单就没有总结了~
time2[2'48]
time3[2'11]
tine4[2'47]
time5[1'55]
time6[2‘27]

zmh_0617

Time 2  1’20
Weibo face many challenges from the government and from the customer. It will still invest money in 2014 and improve its service.
Time3  2min
Weibo is popular in China but Sina make money slowly. Alibab corporate with Sina on the online payment.　A study shows that Sina is worth to invest money.
Time4   3min
Weibo would like to raise money through selling shares. They are convinced that through improvement and executives, they would profit in the long run.
Time5  3min
Weibo is a way for Chinese people to have their own voices, a really big progress. Some people say that Weibo face many challenges since the slowdown of Chinese economy in last year, whereas the online basement are not affected by the the real economy.
Time6  3
Face questions of customer basement and rivals from local company.

flabby2011

好像做错了呢，今天读了前天发的，明天看这篇帖

槁项黄榆

time2 2.06 Sina weibo are going to list in the US. If weibo succeed to go public in America, Alibaba will purchase more stake of Sina.
time3 1.44 Alibaba invest in weibo, because more and more Chinese are tapping internet through mobile. However, the popularity of weibo has been theartend by its compitior's services and political problems.
time4 2.09 weibo was launched in 2009, and it power was noticed by citizens in 2011. Even though Sina has slow to make money off weibo, it has been considered the core to Sina's future growth.
time5 2.27 the price of weibo has jumped 19.7 percent since its listing. Chao siad it is a important time for weibo and they will continue to make value for their stakerholders.
time6 1.38 Sina think weibo and weichat are distinct. besides, the slow down of Chinese eonomy and the censership of goverment will not trouble weibo.
time7 1.51 the low price is not a surprise for Sina. five internet companies that listed just before weibo also got prices under expectation.

triway

Speed

Time1 1'50
The Sina corporation is planning to raise a 500 million dollars by launching initial public offering in the U.S. for the Weibo.
What Weibo is?
weibo is a platform which gives the new chinese generation a way of touching the outside word which is not under control of the chinese goverment.
Now the Weibo's owner is going to trake it in the U.S. public.
Alibaba, another chinese e-commerce bought a minority part of weibo of sina and it will increase it steak to 30 percent from 18 percent if IPOtakes place.

Time2 2'30''
The two principal competition that met by sina weibo is that
1. The competition with Tencent corp. whose message sevices which attracts more people than sina does.
2. the government of China which set up the unrumor fights and claims to purify the enviroment of the internet.
Morever, the statistics say that those years, less people are intrested in microblogs and the custermurs declined a lot.
But the owner of the Sina corp. said that they will still invest more money in this platform while the numbers of users increase from septembre to december.

Time3 2'20''
The Weibo same function as Twitter, it means that the chinese can discuss what ever in the ground of weibo, from pop stars to corrupt politicians of China.
How can Weibo make money?
Adevertisement is the best way but what the corp. profite from Weibo is less than 30 percent of its whole revenues.
Alibaba have ingreted its way of making advertisements.
The lisiting of Weibo can be attractive to the foreign investors and it's a good opportunity and exposure to Sina.

Time4 3'29''
But after several days of listing, the price declined than we thought, Chao said that the entire IPO market is rather tough.
What's more, he is still optimistic and said he didn't care the comtemporary price but to care more about the strategy and the next competitions.
They make money in both adevertising areas, for the SMEs as well as the other e-commerce merchants.

Time5 China slowdown no worry
1'55''
The biggest rival of weibo is wechat which provides the users much more privacy by the freinds groups and circles But Chao
said that privacy is not suitable for Weibo.
What's more, he doesn't concern about the future,
and sina corp kowns the compliance ogf the laws, so there is no problem for them to apply to the strict laws.

Time6 2'24''

Obstacle 10'34

TaoRs92

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