---- Einen chinesischen Netizen durchsucht die Website von online Review site dianping.com in Tianjin, China, 30. März 2014. Dianping, Chinas größtes überprüfen
--FILE--A Chinese netizen browses the website of online review site dianping.com in Tianjin, China, 30 March 2014. Dianping, China's largest review and daily deals website, is close to sealing a US$850 million investment round, according to news portal QQ Tech. The news comes about three weeks after reports said Dianping, which has over 190 million monthly active users in about 2, 300 Chinese cities, was in talks to raise around US$800 million from a group of investors including Tencent, Singapore state-fund Temasek, private-equity firm FountainVest Partners, and Chinese conglomerate Wanda Group. Today's report does not go into the terms of the deal, but quoted an unnamed industry veteran as saying Dianping initially only aimed to raise about US$300 million and no more over fears of diluting shareholders' stakes in the Shanghai-based company, in which Tencent is already a major investor. But Dianping had to up the ante after Alibaba-backed competitor Meituan raised US$700 million in a new financing round that valued the restaurant review website at US$7 billion, the person said.
