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China’s popular video streaming service, iQiyi, has filed confidentially for US IPO according to IFR. Sources familiar with the plans said the company is looking to raise $1 billion by the end of Q1 or early Q2 of 2018. iQiyi has not commented on their plans for IPO. Rumors of iQiyi’s IPO have been circulating since the end of last year. In September, Bloomberg reported that iQiyi was taking its IPO to the US, which could value the video streaming service at over $8 billion. And in October 2017, IFR also reported that iQiyi had picked three banks—Bank of America, Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs—to help manage the deal. iQiyi is a Netflix-like video streaming service currently controlled by search giant Baidu, who became the firm’s largest shareholder in 2012. In 2013, Baidu acquired PPS—another popular video streaming platform in China—for $370 million, merging the two video streaming services. After the merger, iQiyi began to expand into areas such as s...

ANDRE MATTHIAS Album “ BLESSED BENEFIT (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” Director Mahmoud al Massad Digital & Physical Distribution Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd The Orchard    Andre MATTHIAS - "BLESSED BENEFIT" (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)   Ahmad a construction worker gets tangled up in an unfortunate business deal leading him to prison. He meets fraudster Ibrahim who ruins his last hope to prove his innocence. Ahmad is awakened by the realisation that life in prison might be better than the one he has on the outside... Finding the right tone for the music of “Blessed Benefit“ was not easy but very rewarding. Mahmoud originally wanted no score at all in his film, but at some point it was decided that some musical accompaniment might be helpful after all. The film didn't need much music and its mood needed to be just right. Not too funny, not too serious and certainly not too ethnic. So out went my original demo and...