According to the Complaint, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (“SMIC” or the “Company”) purports to be an investment holding company principally engaged in the computer-aided design, manufacture, testing, packaging and trading of integrated circuits (“IC”), as well as the provision of other semiconductor services. The Company is also involved in the design and manufacture of semiconductor masks and various types of wafers. The Company distributes its products in China and to overseas markets, such as the Europe and the United States.
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According to the Complaint, Changyou.com Limited is a leading online game developer and operator in China as measured by the popularity of its PC game TLBB and its mobile game Legacy TLBB Mobile. Changyou also engages in the development, operation and licensing of its massively multi-player online role-playing games, which are interactive games that may be played simultaneously by hundreds of thousands of game players.
According to the Complaint, Minerva Neurosciences, Inc. purports to be a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of a portfolio of product candidates to treat patients suffering from central nervous diseases. The Company’s lead product candidate is roluperidone, in development for the treatment of negative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia.
According to the Complaint, Uber purports to be a technology company that primarily facilitates access to rides and meals on demand.
According to the Complaint, Splunk Inc. “provides innovative software solutions that ingest data from different sources including systems, devices and interactions, and turn that data into meaningful business insights across the organization.” Splunk states that its “Data-to-Everything platform enables users to investigate, monitor, analyze and act on data regardless of format or source.”
According to the Complaint, Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. engages in the exploration of mineral properties in the United States. Its principal mineral property is the Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum project comprising 2,402 mineral claims that covers an area of approximately 417 square miles located in southwest Alaska (the “Pebble Project”).
According to the Complaint, Fortress Biotech, Inc. develops and commercializes pharmaceutical and biotechnology products. In December 2019, the Company’s majority-controlled subsidiary, Avenue Therapeutics, Inc., which Fortress founded in 2015, submitted a New Drug Application for its intravenous Tramadol product to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the management of moderate to moderately severe pain in adults in a medically supervised health care setting.
According to the Complaint, Pinterest is a Delaware corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California. The Company is an image sharing and social media service comprised of small images or “pins” for finding ideas like recipes, home décor and style inspiration.
According to the Complaint, it is alleged that Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) JOYY dramatically overstated its revenues from live streaming sources; (2) the majority of users at any given time were bots; (2) the Company utilized these bots to effect a roundtripping scheme that manufactured the false appearance of revenues; (3) the Company overstated its cash reserves; (4) the Company’s acquisition of Bigo was largely contrived to benefit corporate insiders; and (5) as a result, Defendants’ public statements were materially false and/or misleading at all relevant times.
According to the Complaint, Berry purports to be an independent upstream energy company and engages in the development and production of conventional oil reserves located in the western United States. The Company’s properties are located in the San Joaquin and Ventura basins, California; Uinta basin, Utah; and Piceance basin, Colorado. As of December 31, 2019, Berry had a total of 3,541 net producing wells.
