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- LEPAS Expands Its Presence Across European Markets, Bringing Elegant Mobility to More ConsumersCompanies: CheryFollowing its European debut, LEPAS is now expanding its presence across the region.
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- Duiba Group Founder Gifts 11.21% Stake to Employee Incentive Platform in Record-High Founders-to-ESOP Transfer by Share of Capital in Hong Kong Market HistoryHONG KONG, Sept 21, 2026 - Duiba Group Limited (Stock Code: 01753.HK), the Hong Kong-listed operator that has become one of China's fastest-scaling AI short-drama platforms, announced that its controlling shareholder, Xiaoliang Holding Limited, has agreed to transfer 120,682,000 ordinary shares — approximately 11.21% of issued share capital — for nil consideration to Kewei Holding Limited, the Company's employee share award platform. The transfer, executed on 20 September 2026, is understood to be the largest founder-to-ESOP donation by percentage of share capital in the history of the Hong Kong stock market. It is not a disposal for cash. No shares are being sold into the market; all of them are being placed into a vehicle whose sole economic purpose is to reward and retain employees. Crucially, the arrangement is being funded entirely from the founder's personal shareholding. It involves no issuance of new shares and therefore no dilution to existing shareholders, and it consumes no company capital — no cash, no treasury reserves, no debt. The 120,682,000 shares are being transferred at nil consideration from the founder's own account to the employee incentive platform, meaning the cost of motivating and retaining the core team is borne by the founder, not by public investors or the Company's balance sheet. Six months of exponential growth The transfer comes as Duiba's AI short-drama business enters a phase of compounding growth. On Douyin's native end, cumulative playback from June to August rose 178%. In July and August, Duiba ranked top three across the entire industry for two consecutive months, and was the only leading player to sustain month-on-month growth above 50% in both months. Seven years, zero founder selling Duiba listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong on 7 May 2019. According to HKEX disclosure records, Mr. Chen Xiaoliang, the founder and controlling shareholder, voluntarily extended the post-IPO lock-up to three years at the time of listing and, from the IPO through the date of the transfer, has never reduced his personal beneficial shareholding. The 20 September arrangement is therefore the first change in the founder's ownership structure in the seven years since listing — and its direction is unambiguously inward. "This is the clearest possible signal that the controlling shareholder is backing the next chapter of the business rather than exiting it," a Company spokesperson said. "The shares go to an ESOP vehicle, not to the market." After completion, Xiaoliang Holding will remain the controlling shareholder with approximately 31.01%, down from 42.21%. Kewei Holding, which currently holds only 0.17%, will hold approximately 11.38%. A war chest for AI talent Kewei Holding has undertaken to introduce new incentive schemes with vesting and lock-up arrangements under the Company's equity incentive management measures. The stated focus is AI businesses, with AI short drama at the centre. Existing and future awards will be subject to service and performance conditions, aligning key employees with long-term shareholder value. The timing is deliberate. The AI short-drama sector is expanding rapidly, but hits remain scarce: fewer than 0.5% of new AI short dramas on Douyin surpass 100 million views. In that environment, the constraint on growth is not capital — it is the ability to retain writers, algorithm engineers, producers and commercialisation talent capable of turning AI tooling into repeatable hits. By moving roughly 11% of the Company into a locked-up, performance-vested incentive pool, Duiba is, in effect, converting founder ownership into collective engineering and creative capacity. The AI bet is already compounding Duiba was founded in 2014, is headquartered in Hangzhou and listed on HKEX in May 2019. It built its early business on points-and-benefits SaaS and internet advertising, serving more than 16,000 enterprise clients. In late 2025 it moved strategically into AI short drama, building a full-stack pipeline spanning AI scriptwriting, AI production and AI distribution — what the Company describes as the industrialised, scaled monetisation of AI-generated content. Financials: revenue and gross profit rising in tandem The Company's 2026 interim results show that the growth is reaching the income statement, not merely the traffic ledger. For the six months ended 30 June 2026: Metric 1H2026 Change Total revenue RMB 434.7 million +24.3% YoY Gross profit RMB 74.5 million +30.0% YoY Gross margin 17.1% 16.4% (1H2025) Loss attributable to owners RMB 25.3 million narrowed AI short-drama revenue RMB 222.6 million 51.2% of group revenue The Group's traditional SaaS and advertising operations contributed nearly RMB 70 million of gross profit in the first half and are expected to continue providing earnings support, while AI short drama has become the dominant revenue driver. Asset quality also appears intact. The Company reported net assets of RMB 1.175 billion, cash and short-term wealth management products of approximately RMB 400 million, and prepayments of RMB 345 million, largely related to the bank instant-discount business and recyclable into working capital. Why the transfer matters now Three things make the move more than a symbolic gesture. First, it is structurally a gift, not a sale. The nil-consideration transfer means the founder receives no cash. For a controlling shareholder who has not sold a single share in seven years, the decision moves equity from a personal account to a collective one. Second, it arrives at a moment of operational inflection. Douyin rankings, view-count trajectories and the first-half revenue split all point in the same direction: AI short drama has become the core business, and locking talent into it via vesting and lock-ups addresses the binding constraint on its next phase. Third, it creates a credible incentive currency. An ESOP pool of roughly 11.38% is large enough to be material for hires and retention, yet structured with vesting and lock-ups that prevent it from becoming a short-term payout. The road ahead: overseas expansion and the short drama alliance business Duiba's second-half outlook rests on two tracks: AI short-drama expansion and a stable SaaS and advertising base. On the global front, the Company is accelerating its overseas push into a market it estimates at US$4 billion in 2026, up 390% year on year, with management expecting overseas operations to begin contributing revenue in the fourth quarter. Domestically, it is pursuing a strategy of the short drama alliance business,expanding to tens of thousands of app media clients via SDK access. Its distribution footprint extends beyond Toutiao and Hongguo to Tencent, Kuaishou, Baidu and more than 20 mid-tier platforms. This is not a founder exit. It is a founder-to-employee capital allocation: a seven-year holder converting personal ownership into collective incentive capacity at precisely the moment Duiba's AI short-drama business is compounding on both the view-count and income-statement lines.
- Duiba Group Founder Gifts 11.21% Stake to Employee Incentive Platform in Record-High Founders-to-ESOP Transfer by Share of Capital in Hong Kong Market HistoryHONG KONG, Sept 21, 2026 - Duiba Group Limited (Stock Code: 01753.HK), the Hong Kong-listed operator that has become one of China's fastest-scaling AI short-drama platforms, announced that its controlling shareholder, Xiaoliang Holding Limited, has agreed to transfer 120,682,000 ordinary shares — approximately 11.21% of issued share capital — for nil consideration to Kewei Holding Limited, the Company's employee share award platform. The transfer, executed on 20 September 2026, is understood to be the largest founder-to-ESOP donation by percentage of share capital in the history of the Hong Kong stock market. It is not a disposal for cash. No shares are being sold into the market; all of them are being placed into a vehicle whose sole economic purpose is to reward and retain employees. Crucially, the arrangement is being funded entirely from the founder's personal shareholding. It involves no issuance of new shares and therefore no dilution to existing shareholders, and it consumes no company capital — no cash, no treasury reserves, no debt. The 120,682,000 shares are being transferred at nil consideration from the founder's own account to the employee incentive platform, meaning the cost of motivating and retaining the core team is borne by the founder, not by public investors or the Company's balance sheet. Six months of exponential growth The transfer comes as Duiba's AI short-drama business enters a phase of compounding growth. On Douyin's native end, cumulative playback from June to August rose 178%. In July and August, Duiba ranked top three across the entire industry for two consecutive months, and was the only leading player to sustain month-on-month growth above 50% in both months. Seven years, zero founder selling Duiba listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong on 7 May 2019. According to HKEX disclosure records, Mr. Chen Xiaoliang, the founder and controlling shareholder, voluntarily extended the post-IPO lock-up to three years at the time of listing and, from the IPO through the date of the transfer, has never reduced his personal beneficial shareholding. The 20 September arrangement is therefore the first change in the founder's ownership structure in the seven years since listing — and its direction is unambiguously inward. "This is the clearest possible signal that the controlling shareholder is backing the next chapter of the business rather than exiting it," a Company spokesperson said. "The shares go to an ESOP vehicle, not to the market." After completion, Xiaoliang Holding will remain the controlling shareholder with approximately 31.01%, down from 42.21%. Kewei Holding, which currently holds only 0.17%, will hold approximately 11.38%. A war chest for AI talent Kewei Holding has undertaken to introduce new incentive schemes with vesting and lock-up arrangements under the Company's equity incentive management measures. The stated focus is AI businesses, with AI short drama at the centre. Existing and future awards will be subject to service and performance conditions, aligning key employees with long-term shareholder value. The timing is deliberate. The AI short-drama sector is expanding rapidly, but hits remain scarce: fewer than 0.5% of new AI short dramas on Douyin surpass 100 million views. In that environment, the constraint on growth is not capital — it is the ability to retain writers, algorithm engineers, producers and commercialisation talent capable of turning AI tooling into repeatable hits. By moving roughly 11% of the Company into a locked-up, performance-vested incentive pool, Duiba is, in effect, converting founder ownership into collective engineering and creative capacity. The AI bet is already compounding Duiba was founded in 2014, is headquartered in Hangzhou and listed on HKEX in May 2019. It built its early business on points-and-benefits SaaS and internet advertising, serving more than 16,000 enterprise clients. In late 2025 it moved strategically into AI short drama, building a full-stack pipeline spanning AI scriptwriting, AI production and AI distribution — what the Company describes as the industrialised, scaled monetisation of AI-generated content. Financials: revenue and gross profit rising in tandem The Company's 2026 interim results show that the growth is reaching the income statement, not merely the traffic ledger. For the six months ended 30 June 2026: Metric 1H2026 Change Total revenue RMB 434.7 million +24.3% YoY Gross profit RMB 74.5 million +30.0% YoY Gross margin 17.1% 16.4% (1H2025) Loss attributable to owners RMB 25.3 million narrowed AI short-drama revenue RMB 222.6 million 51.2% of group revenue The Group's traditional SaaS and advertising operations contributed nearly RMB 70 million of gross profit in the first half and are expected to continue providing earnings support, while AI short drama has become the dominant revenue driver. Asset quality also appears intact. The Company reported net assets of RMB 1.175 billion, cash and short-term wealth management products of approximately RMB 400 million, and prepayments of RMB 345 million, largely related to the bank instant-discount business and recyclable into working capital. Why the transfer matters now Three things make the move more than a symbolic gesture. First, it is structurally a gift, not a sale. The nil-consideration transfer means the founder receives no cash. For a controlling shareholder who has not sold a single share in seven years, the decision moves equity from a personal account to a collective one. Second, it arrives at a moment of operational inflection. Douyin rankings, view-count trajectories and the first-half revenue split all point in the same direction: AI short drama has become the core business, and locking talent into it via vesting and lock-ups addresses the binding constraint on its next phase. Third, it creates a credible incentive currency. An ESOP pool of roughly 11.38% is large enough to be material for hires and retention, yet structured with vesting and lock-ups that prevent it from becoming a short-term payout. The road ahead: overseas expansion and the short drama alliance business Duiba's second-half outlook rests on two tracks: AI short-drama expansion and a stable SaaS and advertising base. On the global front, the Company is accelerating its overseas push into a market it estimates at US$4 billion in 2026, up 390% year on year, with management expecting overseas operations to begin contributing revenue in the fourth quarter. Domestically, it is pursuing a strategy of the short drama alliance business,expanding to tens of thousands of app media clients via SDK access. Its distribution footprint extends beyond Toutiao and Hongguo to Tencent, Kuaishou, Baidu and more than 20 mid-tier platforms. This is not a founder exit. It is a founder-to-employee capital allocation: a seven-year holder converting personal ownership into collective incentive capacity at precisely the moment Duiba's AI short-drama business is compounding on both the view-count and income-statement lines.
- THE ROSEN LAW FIRM, P. A.Rosen Law Firm Encourages America's Car-Mart, Inc. Investors to Inquire About Securities Class Action Investigation - CRMTWhy: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, continues to investigate potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of America's Car-Mart, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRMT) resulting from allegations that America's Car-Mart may have issued...
- From Sarong Music Run Sponsorship to Long-Term Commitment: JETOUR Advances Its Travel+ Strategy in MalaysiaCompanies: CheryThe Malaysia Sarong Music Run 2026 was held in Kuala Lumpur, bringing together sports, music and local cultural experiences. As the official automotive partner of the event, JETOUR organized a fleet of more than 100 vehicles for a city parade through the capital. The celebration drew a crowd of over 20,000 participants, with YAB Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Prime Minister of Malaysia, and Ke Chuandeng, President of JETOUR International, in attendance to join this unique fusion of fitness, music and Malaysian culture.
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- ARIDGEARIDGE and UAE Authorities to Jointly Establish the World's First Personal Flying Car Regulatory SandboxCompany deepens its UAE presence through flight validation, airworthiness activities and preparations for future inter-emirate advanced air mobility services. — ARIDGE (Formerly XPENG AEROHT), Asia's largest flying car company, officially...
- Over 10,000 Units Sold: EVDANCE Unveils the Next-Generation NACS Charging Extension CableEVDANCE unveils its upgraded NACS extension cable, adding EV charging reach while retaining the original Tesla charger’s charge-port button experience.
- EVDANCE Unveils Affordable Smart EV Charger with Large Display and Premium FeaturesEVDANCE unveils a smart 40A wall-mounted EV charger with a large display, app controls, NACS compatibility and 9.6kW Level 2 charging.
- 比亚迪、斯泰兰蒂斯和蔚来三家车企同日宣布召回：时间横跨 12 年，18万多辆新能源车在列Companies: BYD Company（来源：大众新闻-大众日报） 9月18日下午， 比亚迪 、斯泰兰蒂斯和蔚来三家车企同时宣布，因部分车型中的部分批次，可能存在安全隐患，正式向国家市场监督管理总局备案了召回计划。 这一轮的召回备案中，比亚迪召回数量最多，共涉及比亚迪唐、秦两大车系。 其中，比亚迪汽车工业有限公司唐家族多款车型需要召回，包括2015年3月28日至2018年12月21日期间生产的唐系列汽车，共计58026辆；2018年5月19日至2022年1月14日期间生产的全新一代唐DM系列汽车，共计77846辆；2018年12月27日至2021年10月25日期间生产的全新一代唐EV系列汽车，共计7023辆。 另一个主体比亚迪汽车公司，则宣布即日起召回2014年6月27日至2019年6月9日期间生产的秦系列汽车，共计40316辆；至此，本次比亚迪旗下两大主体，共召回车型数量超 18 万台。 公告称，本次召回范围内的部分车辆，由于生产制造问题，导致制动踏板限位垫材料批
- Avis Budget Group Shareholder Alert: ClaimsFiler Reminds Investors With Losses In Excess Of $100,000 Of Lead Plaintiff Deadline In Class Action Lawsuit Against Avis Budget Group, Inc. - CARClaimsFiler, a FREE shareholder information service, reminds investors that they have until September 29, 2026 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Avis Budget Group, Inc. ("Avis" or the "Company")...