Mobile internet mergers and acquisitions boom total trading price of $47 billion

Tim Merel, an investment firm Digi-capital analyst Tim Mallo, said that "removing facebook-whatsapp from mergers and acquisitions shows that the mobile internet sector is a seller's market." In the remaining $28 billion trillion (about 172.3 billion yuan) of mergers and acquisitions, the second quarter of this year accounted for 13.8 billion U.S. dollars (about 84.9 billion yuan), compared with the second quarter of last year, 1.8 billion U.S. dollars (about 11.1 billion yuan) a significant increase. ”

The report showed that the value of mobile internet mergers and acquisitions was 5 times times that of $8.9 billion trillion (54.8 billion yuan) a year ago, with investment trading worth 33.2 billion times the last year's 5.4 billion dollars (about 2.5 times yuan).

Of course, Facebook's $19 billion trillion (about 116.9 billion yuan) to buy WhatsApp is an "exception". However, even excluding the deal, mobile messaging uses $4.1 billion trillion (about 25.2 billion yuan) for mergers and acquisitions in mobile gaming assets, with $5 billion trillion (about 30.8 billion yuan), and $2.3 billion for mergers and acquisitions in mobile finance and mobile advertising. About 14.2 billion yuan), the amount of mergers and acquisitions in the navigation and photo/video fields is more than 1 billion dollars (about 6.15 billion yuan).

Milo points out that there are not only mergers and acquisitions but also huge investment deals in the mobile internet sector. "Over the past 12 months, the amount of investment transactions in the mobile internet sector has exceeded $14 billion trillion, and more investment has been made in hot areas such as tourism/transportation, tools and mobile commerce, but even some of the less popular areas have reached $ hundreds of millions of trillion," he told VentureBeat.

In the second quarter of this year, the mobile Internet market Investment transaction amount of more than 5.5 billion U.S. dollars (about 33.8 billion yuan), is 1.4 billion U.S. dollars (about 8.6 billion yuan) a year earlier 4 times times.

In the past 12 months, the mobile Internet market value of 14 billion U.S. dollars in investment transactions, tourism/transportation investment in the amount of 3.1 billion U.S. dollars (about 19.1 billion yuan), tools and mobile business investment amount of about 1.5 billion U.S. dollars (about 9.2 billion yuan), the game area investment amount of 1 billion U.S. dollars, Mobile advertising in the field of investment in the amount of 700 million U.S. dollars (about 4.3 billion yuan).

According to Milo, there are more areas of access to investment and exit opportunities, including mobile commerce, business applications, education and wearable technologies. Areas that have not been fully noted include advertising/marketing-the number of startups that have grown dramatically over the past few years, as well as games, navigation and messaging.

"Fashion, healthcare, journalism and social networking apps still have a good exit opportunity," says Milo.