Hot Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi has raised a huge $1.1 billion round of funding that values it at $45 billion, it said today.
The funding had been reported for several days, but official confirmation of the round and the valuation came from Xiaomi chief executive and founder Lei Jun in a post on Chinese social networking site Weibo. Xiaomi has become the world’s third-largest maker of smartphones in the past year, in large part by offering low-cost devices with strong software that have been eating into Samsung’s market share in China.
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