阿里巴巴超20億控股亞博科技 搶佔彩票市場

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and its financial affiliate are buying a controlling stake in Hong Kong-listed lottery operator AGTech Holdings Ltd, for HK$2.39 billion ($308 million).

日前，阿里巴巴集團控股有限公司及其金融分支螞蟻金融斥資23.9億港幣（摺合3.08億美元）購買香港亞博科技有限公司控股權。

The deal will give the Alibaba unit 59.45 percent of AGTech, according to the lottery operator's filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange on Sunday.

根據上週日香港股票交易所的消息，本次交易將把亞博科技的59.45%股份轉交給阿里巴巴。

AGTech is engaged in gaming technologies including game software and hardware, and lottery distribution.

亞博科技的主要業務是遊戲科技，包括遊戲軟件和遊戲硬件的開發，以及股票的分發銷售。

Its filing said it will be the exclusive business platform of Alibaba and Ant Financial to apply for, and hold business qualifications and licenses for, the operations of lottery businesses. Alibaba and its affiliate will also provide technical services and resources such as cloud computing services and e-commerce.

亞博科技提交的文件稱，它將成爲阿里巴巴和螞蟻金融的獨家業務平臺，並持有經營彩票業務的營業執照。阿里巴巴和螞蟻金融將會爲亞博科技提供雲計算服務和電子商務服務。

The company, which has 200 employees, said it "will benefit significantly" from the investor, should Internet channels for lottery sales re-open.

亞博科技目前擁有200名員工，相關人員表示，員工將會受益於本次投資，並且通過互聯網銷售彩票的渠道將會重新開放。

Li Kai, an analyst with the Beijing-based Internet consultancy Analysys International, said that the suspension of online lottery sales is likely to be lifted within the year as officials at the annual lottery strategy meeting in January said they will actively push the preparatory work for a pilot online lottery sales program forward.

北京國際互聯網諮詢公司分析師李凱表示，由於相關官員在今年一月份的彩票策略週年例會上表示，將會積極推進彩票網上銷售的前期試點準備工作，所以彩票網上銷售禁令可能在今年內取消。

"China's lottery market is too big for two online lottery-selling companies to fill. More licenses are expected to be offered to more players," Li said. "Alibaba's advantage in e-commerce, big data, online payment can certainly give the online sales of lottery a strong boost."

李凱說道：“中國彩票市場很大，兩個彩票銷售公司遠遠不能滿足市場需求，而應設立更多彩票銷售公司。阿里巴巴在電子商務、大數據和網上支付方面擁有明顯優勢，所以肯定能夠大力促進網上彩票的銷售。”