Major Chinese company Alibaba, specializing in e-commerce, has made a strategic investment in the local manufacturer of smartphones.
Alibaba officially announced the acquisition of a minority stake in the company Meizu for $ 590 million. Before it, has invested $ 10 million in startup OUYA, famous for its game console with open source software. In an official statement also said that the cooperation with Alibaba Meizu help web giant in the dissemination of its mobile operating system Aliyun by its installation on smartphones Meizu.
By the way, recently Meizu CEO Jack Wong announced that in January the company sold 1.5 million smartphones, and its revenues on a monthly basis increased by 50%.