快手预在今年上市

Chinese startup Kuaishou is considering to a U.S. initial public offering to bankroll its expansion in short videos and fend off competition from TikTok-owner ByteDance Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.

据知情人士透露，中国初创企业快手正考虑在美国进行首次公开募股(ipo)，为其在短视频领域的扩张提供资金，以抵御来自字节跳动旗下抖音的竞争。

The company, backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd., plans to list next year, the people said, requesting not to be named because the matter is private.

知情人士说，这家由腾讯控股有限公司(Tencent Holdings Ltd.)支持的公司计划明年上市。由于此事属于私人性质，该人士要求匿名发布。

One person said Kuaishou also weighed the option of going public this year. The video startup is raising more than $1 billion at a $25 billion valuation in a pre-IPO round mostly from Tencent, one of the people said.

一位知情人士表示，快手也在权衡今年上市的可能性。一位知情人士说，这家视频初创公司在ipo前的一轮融资中筹集了逾10亿美元资金，估值250亿美元，主要来自腾讯。

Kuaishou is an important part of Chinese social media giant Tencent’s strategy to compete against ByteDance, now the world’s most valuable startup.

快手是中国社交媒体巨头腾讯(Tencent)与字节跳动(ByteDance)竞争战略的重要组成部分。字节跳动目前是全球市值最高的初创公司。

Tencent has devoted a lot of resources toward building a library of short and mini video offerings -- key to retaining user attention and boosting advertising revenue -- but has yet to catch its rival.

腾讯投入了大量资源打造一个短视频和迷你视频库，这是保持用户注意力和提高广告收入的关键，但它还没有赶上竞争对手。

“Tencent’s biggest enemy is ByteDance right now,” said David Dai, a Hong Kong-based analyst at Bernstein. “Tencent hasn’t been very successful in short videos in the past, so resorting to investing in other companies instead is its best option.”

伯恩斯坦(Bernstein)驻香港分析师戴大卫(David Dai)表示:“腾讯目前最大的敌人是字节跳动。”“腾讯过去在短视频领域并不十分成功，因此转而投资其他公司是其最佳选择。”

U.S.-listed shares of some of Kuaishou’s competitors fell. Momo Inc. fell 2.8%, the most in more than a week, while DouYu International Holdings Ltd. fell 1.9%, the most in about a month. Both under-performed the Nasdaq, which rose 0.3%.

美国快手的一些竞争对手在美国上市的股票下跌。陌陌股份有限公司(Momo Inc.)跌2.8%，为一周多来最大跌幅，而斗鱼国际控股有限公司(DouYu International Holdings Ltd.)跌1.9%，为约一个月来最大跌幅。两家公司的表现都不及纳斯达克指数0.3%的涨幅。