Xiaomi triples smartphone shipments in 2014 to 61.1 million units

As we told you last month, Xiaomi recently raised over $1 billion in a new round of funding that was done at a valuation of more than $45 billion. That is the second highest valuation ever put on a private company by venture capitalists, surpassing the $41 billion valuation recently placed on Uber. It trails only the $50 billion valuation put on Facebook, with an investment in 2011 by Goldman Sachs.
It has been an amazingly heady ride for the company, which Mr. Lei founded in 2010. Today, the smartphone manufacturer introduced the Xiaomi Redmi 2S, a sequel to the Xiaomi Remi 1S. And we expect to see the Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 phablet and a new flagship introduced very soon.
source: WSJ