实力雄厚！阿里与字节跳动在香港逆势扩张, 租用更多办公空间

TikTok母公司字节跳动（ByteDance Ltd.）和阿里巴巴已经签署了在香港增加办公室的租约。据一位知情人士透露，字节跳动在铜锣湾时代广场租下了约3000平方英尺(279平方米)的办公室，租期三年。阿里巴巴也在同一栋大楼中租了三层楼。尽管在在本土市场增长放缓的情况下，新的租约也突显了这两家科技巨头扩大全球足迹的雄心。阿里巴巴的电子商务和云计算等部门正在努力吸引海外客户，字节跳动也正寻求推出新的全球热门产品，以复制TikTok在在线娱乐领域的成功。随着投资者对TikTok海外市场的信心增强，字节跳动的估值在最近飙升至1000亿美元以上。该公司此前制定了积极的扩张计划，计划在2020年提供4万个新的就业岗位，其中包括两个在香港负责制定内容政策的职位。

Chinese tech firms are expanding their footprint in Hong Kong even as the pandemic prompts some banks to consider scaling back in the world’s most expensive office market. TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. have signed leases to add office space in Hong Kong. ByteDance took out a three-year lease on about 3,000 square feet (279 square meters) of space in Causeway Bay’s Times Square, according to a person familiar. Alibaba has also signed up for one more floor spanning approximately 17,000 square feet in the same building, one of the people said. The firm currently leases three floors and a dozen more units. The new leases underscore the twin tech giants’ ambition to broaden their global footprint, as growth in their home market slows. While ByteDance is looking for the next global hit to replicate TikTok’s success in online entertainment, Alibaba’s divisions including e-commerce and cloud computing are tapping overseas clients and customers. The company has previously made aggressive expansion plans to create 40000 new jobs by 2020, including two positions in Hong Kong responsible for content policy.  source

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