Bounce only opened on 29 September, but ping pong fever started spreading fast and furiously around the capital in August with the arrival of Ping, an underground ping pong bar and kitchen in Earls Court.
Ping An said the investment will give it more opportunity to cross-sell its financial services.
It has also taken a 20% stake in Ping An Health, one of China's largest private health insurers.
Also, excessive "screen scraping, " where computers ping an airline website repeatedly to extract information, strains the airline's website, American said.
Ping An International Financial Center is one of the largest projects in the works as well, at 118 floors.
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Ping An rose 2.8% to CNY38.51 and China Pacific was up 3.5% at CNY21.22 on a positive outlook for earnings growth.
Ping An's ambition is to move beyond insurance and become a financial conglomerate by further developing its banking and asset management units.
Ping An held close to a 5% stake in Fortis when it was dismantled and some its assets sold off by the Dutch and Belgian governments.
That's because over half the investment portfolios of both Ping An and China Life are in bonds and other fixed-income assets, while only 10% is in equities.
Unable to buy out its partner, it is pursuing local incorporation, something only recently allowed, and investments in Bank of Shanghai and Ping An, an insurance firm.
Ping An and other insurers are also expected to benefit when China's insurance regulator allows them to place more of their investments into higher-yielding assets like equity and property.
China Development Bank replaced the head of its Hong Kong branch, weeks after the lender began to reconsider its role in the deal to buy a Ping An stake.
IPOs in Hong Kong aren't a market these banks will drop, and in fact some of their peers continue to come in: Early last week, Chinese insurer Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. of China Ltd.
China Life, Ping An and China Pacific, the first-, second- and fourth-largest life insurers in China, respectively, are already publicly traded, and Taiking Life, number five, is expected to have an initial public offering within the next 12 months.
The state-owned company also said it would review its overseas investment strategy and risk controls--a blow to China's second-largest insurer after it successfully lobbied Chinese regulators to be the first insurer allowed to invest 15% of its assets overseas (See " China's Ping An Freed To Pour More Money Overseas").
In between some fierce rucking there was the inevitable aerial ping-pong, an exchange that allowed James Hook to take some confidence-boosting high kicks in the unfamiliar position of full-back for Wales.
Stackhouse also likes the TopSpin concept because he is an avid ping-pong player.
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No, these are not the next predicted wars but the unlikely doubles teams for an international ping pong event.
From there, the movie plays out like an endless ping pong match.
Think smart parking meters that ping your phone when you drive near an open space.
The linchpin of the action is Jiang Cheng, a young travel agent and, in his spare time, a female impersonator, who is having an affair with Wang Ping, a college student and a married man whose wife hires a private eye to follow him.
Bitterness aside, there is some value in being able to directly ping a stranger you heard speak at an event, or you want to really show your interest in a job opportunity, but it still destroys the level playing field that we've all come to know and respect as it relates to digital communication.
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