https://www.dekut.com/USA/alibaba-pumps-100-million-into-vmate-to-grow-its-video-app-in-india/ Chinese tech giant Alibaba is doubling down on India’s burgeoning video market, looking to fight back local rival ByteDance, Google and Disney to gain its foothold in the nation. The company said today that it is pumping $100 million into Vmate, a three-year-old social video app owned by subsidiary UC Web. Vmate was launched as a video streaming and short-video-sharing app in 2016. But in the years since, it has added features such as video downloads and 3-dimensional face emojis to expand its use cases. It has amassed 30 million users globally, and will use the capital to scale its busine Read Moress in India, the company told TechCrunch. Alibaba Group did not respond to TechCrunch’s questions about its ownership of the app. Fri, 31 May 2019 13:03:45 UTC en