All of China’s most visible mobility players have undergone significant change over the last 12 months.
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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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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.
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Didi launches bike rental feature for blowing the whistle on ‘uncivilized’ users
So far, more than 1,000 user accounts have been frozen for periods of time ranging from five to 90 days.
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Ofo starts selling ads on bikes and in apps
Chinese bike rental giant ofo has started selling advertisements on its bikes and apps (in Chinese) in an attempt to boost revenues amid increasing cash strain. The company will launch custom-designed bikes and the bike-body ads will appear in bike wheels, saddle and baskets for clients to reach the public with their messages. Rumors of ofo’s failure […]
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Briefing: Didi takes punitive measures against deviant shared bike riders
The rules went into effect on Wednesday on Didi’s bike-rental platforms Qingju and Bluegogo.
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Didi reprimanded for introducing new shared bikes in Beijing in red tape snafu
Didi’s struggles in the bike-rental market led to a launch of its own brand, Qingju.
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Mobike announces support for Apple Pay, iPhone iOS 11 camera to accelerate globalization drive
The bike rental war between Mobike and its rival ofo is still ongoing in China, with no end in sight. The pair has been waging an all-out war in terms of bike quantity and technology on and beyond their home turf. Now they set their sight on user experience. Mobike announced yesterday that it has […]
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Ofo vs Mobike: Northern vs Southern China expansion models
Next time when you meet a Chinese person, ask where they are from. The geographical boundary between northern China and southern China is not precisely defined, but there are rough and approximate stereotypes on Northerners and Southerners’ height, language, and what they eat. At the annual ChinaBang Awards this year, Grace Gu, principal at ZhenFund (backer of ofo), […]
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Some ofo users can’t unlock bikes from Didi app
Amid rumors of ofo’s acquisition by Didi Chuxing, users are encountering errors when attempting to rent the former’s bicycles through the ride-hailing giant’s app. According to the local media, an error is displayed within the app when scanning an ofo bicycle’s QR code. The message says that the problem has been partially repaired, but Didi cannot resolve […]
