We’ve updated our list of top apps for living in China in 2020 to reflect how phone home screens have changed—and to think about what it says about the market.
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INSIGHTS | The bike rental boom is dead. Long live bike rental
The bike rental bubble popped a long time ago. Now, a new group of companies are taking a different approach to their predecessors.
Posted inHeavy Hitters
Meituan in focus | Meituan’s turnaround year
In May, Meituan Dianping unseated search engine Baidu as China’s third-largest listed internet company by market cap, behind only Alibaba and Tencent.
Posted inHeavy Hitters
Failures and opportunities: A pivotal moment for China’s mobility industry
Didi hopes new strategies will help it complete a U-turn that will get it out of the dead-end in which it finds itself.
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From Groupon clone to China’s largest lifestyle services provider
Meituan forays into ride-hailing and bike-rental services have been expensive gambits that haven’t yet paid off, but it has seen success in other efforts.
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Hello Transtech: Alibaba’s other, other unicorn
Hello Transtech, an Alibaba-backed mobility unicorn, is streets ahead of the bikesharing firms that have come before it.
Posted inOn the Cusp
Chinese firms should focus on capital efficiency: GGV Capital
GGV Managing Partner Jixun Foo discusses the return to a more rational investment approach in China.
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China’s harsh startup-financing winter may soon relent: VC
Areas such as cloud, AI, and blockchain, continue to attract investors, despite the funding slowdown.
Posted inOn the Cusp
As bike rentals cool, ofo chooses to stand alone
China’s bike rental industry has experienced a roller coaster over the past 3 years. At its height, there were nearly 80 bike rental startups in the market, brightening the streets with a rainbow of bikes. But in the fast-paced tech world, trends come and go quickly. Within a year, over 20 bike startups failed, including […]
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Hello TransTech fuels Alibaba’s mobility ambitions
In the second part of a two-part series, we look at Hello TransTech’s role in Alibaba’s all-in-one lifestyle ambitions.
