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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Luckin may not last, but its model will
More and more fast-growing startups are headed to IPO while hemorrhaging money.
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CHINA VOICES | Ofo’s final fight
A moral in Ofo’s rise and fall: ‘It is dangerous to violate common sense.’
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CHINA VOICES | Meituan’s master of ‘copy to China’
Meituan has grown by beating older companies at their own game—but how long can they last without innovating?
