Series of fines come after regulators declared their intention to take a harder look at big tech with new anti-monopoly rules

Online literature provider faces double threat from unhappy authors and a growing industry trend toward free-to-read products

Online fiction platform’s revised agreements offer writers more control over their intellectual property, bigger share of the profits

Hong Kong-listed China Literature’s new management team met with its top contributors Wednesday to discuss compensation as industry increasingly moves to free reading model

Personnel shakeup comes as the Tencent-backed company is making more and more of its money selling the rights to produce its content for film and television

Tech giant’s move is part of online literature platforms’ general trend towards an advertising model

Midu is among new cohort of Chinese e-book providers luring audiences with free content

Alibaba pledges to boost financial inclusion in Africa, JD.com strikes logistics deal with Unilever, Nio files for IPO

China Literature to buy domestic production house New Classics to get its content made into films, TV series

Revenue for online publishing unit comes mainly from paying readership

Tencent’s newly listed unit hopes to expand product range to fuel profit growth

Initial public offering prices shares at high end of range after being heavily oversubscribed

Literature subsidiary’s initial public offering in Hong Kong likely drew $44.87 billion in orders from retail investors, brokers say

Latest application by financial technology firm comes as China Literature gets nod for Hong Kong listing, and Sogou eyes New York share sale