Question: IGN (formerly Imagine Games Network) is an American video game and entertainment media company operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis and wholly owned by j2 Global. The company is located in San Francisco's SOMA district in California, United States, and is headed by its former editor-in-chief, Peer Schneider. The IGN website was the brainchild of media entrepreneur Chris Anderson and launched on September 29, 1996. It focuses on games, films, television, comics, technology, and other media. Originally a network of desktop websites, IGN is now distributed on mobile platforms, console programs on the Xbox and PlayStation, FireTV, Roku, and via YouTube, Twitch, Hulu, and Snapchat.

Originally, IGN was the flagship property of the parent company IGN Entertainment, which owned and operated several other websites oriented towards players' interests, games, and entertainment, such as Rotten Tomatoes, GameSpy, "GameStats", "VE3D", TeamXbox, Vault Network, FilePlanet, and AskMen, among others. IGN was sold to publishing company Ziff Davis in February 2013 and now operates as a J2 Global subsidiary.

Created in September 1996 as the "Imagine Games Network", the IGN content network was founded by publishing executive Jonathan Simpson-Bint and began as five individual websites within Imagine Media: N64.com (later renamed ign64.com), PSXPower, Saturnworld, Next-Generation.com and Ultra Game Players Online. Imagine expanded on its owned-and-operated websites by creating an affiliate network that included a number of independent fansites such as PSX Nation.com, Sega-Saturn.com, Game Sages, and GameFAQs. In 1998, the network launched a new homepage that consolidated the individual sites as system "channels" under the IGN brand. The homepage exposed content from more than 30 different channels. Next-Generation and Ultra Game Players Online were not part of this consolidation; U.G.P.O. dissolved with the cancellation of the magazine, and Next-Generation was put "on hold" when Imagine decided to concentrate on launching the short-lived Daily Radar brand. 1. Who is IGN wholly owned by?
2. What does IGN stand for?
3. Where is it located?
4. In which famous neighborhood?
5. Who is the president of the company?
6. What was his former title?
7. Did he create the company?
8. Who did?
9. When?
10. Where is IGN distributed currently?
11. How was it originally?
12. How many were there?
13. Of how many individual sites?
14. Which was renamed ign64.com later?
15. What changed in 1998?
16. How did it now organize its content?
17. How many were there?
18. Was U.G.P.O included?
19. What did that stand for? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. j2 Global.
2. Imagine Games Network
3. San Francisco'
4. SOMA district
5. Peer Schneider
6. editor-in-chief
7. no
8. Chris Anderson
9. September 29, 1996
10. mobile platforms
11. desktop websites
12. a network
13. Eight
14. N64.com
15. the homepage
16. consolidated the individual sites as system channels
17. more than 30
18. no
19. Ultra Game Players Online

Question: China Merchants Bank Co Ltd has teamed up with ride-hailing major Didi Kuaidi to provide automobile financing and expand its reach in China's booming mobile payment industry.

The two have inked a comprehensive partnership, which includes a strategic investment by the former in the latter. Under the partnership, CMB will become the first bricks-and-mortar bank that can offer in-app credit card payments to Didi users. At present, users of Didi can only choose third-party payment solutions like WeChat Payment and Alipay to pay cab fares.

Zhao Ju, vice-president of CMB, said the cooperation with Didi was an important step in its mobile Internet finance strategy. "CMB's mobile payment is going to enter a new chapter by leveraging Didi Kuaidi's vast user base," he said.

According to a report by China Internet Network Information Center earlier this month, Didi holds 87.2 percent of China's private car hailing market. The company said it has received 1.43 billion car-hailing requests on its platforms in 2015, which means 1.43 billion payments were made via smartphones.

CMB is expected to use Didi to reach the core users of China's mobile payment market. Jean Liu, president of Didi, said many of the expats prefer payment by credit card rather than Alipay or WeChat. "The new partnership will help improve service quality and customer loyalty," she said. The investment makes CMB part of Didi's existing investors, including Tencent Holdings Ltd, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and China Investment Corporation. Both of the companies declined to reveal the actual amount of the investment.

Liu, who showed up on Tuesday for the first time in public after her treatment for breast cancer, said the cooperation with CMB is for the long run and "the capital investment is only part of it".

Under the partnership, CMB and Didi will cooperate on a wide range of initiatives on financial services and online-to-offline cooperation. Apart from the in-app credit card payments, the two companies are going to launch joint credit cards in late February and automobile financing services for Didi's car owners. CMB's branches across China are expected to help Didi recruit more drivers.

"There is a lot of room for imagination in our partnership," Li said, adding in future people may use their CMB credit card reward points to pay for the ride on Didi.

Li Chao, an analyst with iResearch Consulting Group, said the partnership may not significantly boost CMB's mobile payment business. "Didi has educated the market for three years and its customers have formed the habit of paying by WeChat or Alipay. So I think CMB can only turn a very smart proportion of Didi users into its payment customer," he said. "But the move shows that China's traditional banking industry is finally thinking out of the box and looking for outside partners in Internet finance competition," he said.

Statistics from Big-Data Research showed that more than 90 percent of China's 9.3 trillion yuan ($1.41 trillion) worth of third party mobile payment market is donated by Alibaba and Tencent. 1. who show up for the 1st time to the public ?
2. on what day ?
3. who teamed up with Didi Kuaid ?
4. give me one reason why ?
5. and another reason why ?
6. who will opffer special credit cards ?
7. are they a credit card bussiness ?
8. what are they ?
9. what percent of china car hailing do they have ?
10. how many request ?
11. what kind of request ?
12. were payments via computers ?
13. what were they made via ?
14. what does cmb stand for ?
15. what does Li do ?
16. with who ?
17. who provides the stats ?
18. who donated payment markets ?
19. Jean Liu is what ?
20. of what company ? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Liu
2. Tuesday
3. China Merchants Bank Co Ltd
4. provide automobile financing
5. expand its reach in China's booming mobile payment industry
6. CMB
7. no
8. bank
9. 87.2 percent
10. 1.43 billion
11. car-hailing requests
12. no
13. smartphones
14. China Merchants Bank
15. analyst
16. iResearch Consulting Group
17. Big-Data Research
18. Alibaba and Tencent
19. president
20. Didi