Analysts said the move could be an effort to comply with the country's legalisation requirements.
Analysts expected the entertainment group's revenues to be $13.
Combing through the data, the analysts found they could group the staff into clusters, based on shared patterns of behaviour.
Growth in sales of necessities has tumbled, even before the latest market gyrations, which could exacerbate the slowdown, retail analysts say.
The comments came as shares in the internet search company jumped almost 12 per cent in after-market trading, adding more than $40bn to its market value, after it topped most analysts' earnings forecasts and met expectations for net revenues in its latest quarter.
Production of white copy paper and other forms of 'uncoated' paper has fallen about 38% since 1999, while demand for paper cups is growing as much as 5% a year, according to industry analysts.
On the pro-forma basis on which Wall Street assesses the company, earnings per share rose to 62 cents from 56 cents a year ago, and ahead of the 58 cents most analysts had expected.
" Some analysts said the German finance minister's discussion of a "temporary" exit from the eurozone for Greece was a veiled attempt to push it out of the 19-member currency union for good.
Yet analysts say the roots of China's stock boom, and its unfolding bust, lie not in old-fashioned retail trading halls.
In spite of the new figures, however, analysts expect the market to recover only gradually.
Analysts said the data were the result of a string of oil-for-loan deals that China, which is in the process of overtaking the US as the world's biggest importer of crude, has signed with Russian oil companies including state-backed Rosneft.
However, its arrival may have taken attention away from some of the smaller Chinese internet companies, say analysts, depressing valuations just as those in China began to rise.
Analysts remain pessimistic about the firm's ability to grow.
Although the World Bank expects China to remain Asia's fastest-growing economy until 2017, many private sector analysts believe India will outpace its neighbour as soon as this year.
Analysts last week descended on Yum Brands in Shanghai with a volley of tough questions after billionaire investor Dan Loebsuggested the US fast-food chain consider hiving off its Chinese operations.
Though analysts generally agree that Alibaba's long-term growth potential still lives up to the hopes that surrounded its listing last year, many have become more cautious about how much the company can increase earnings in the coming months.
There is a palpable sense among analysts that Alibaba's honeymoon — which saw the ecommerce group break records with last year's $25bn New York listing — is over.
Most analysts rule out Samsung's returning to the prior profit levels, but are watching for signs of a recovery as the South Korean group rolls out the new flagship Galaxy S6 phone and a new line of low and mid-end smartphones.
1m, or 86 cents a share, a year ago, well below the 60 cents Netflix had projected and analysts' expectations of 69 cents.
" According to analysts, the large number of old vehicles on roads, burning of bio-mass, industry emissions and coal-powered power stations are mainly to blame for Delhi's pollution levels.