Hungry Panda is exporting the Chinese food delivery model to homesick students abroad. But is it just an overseas clone of Eleme?
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A delivery driver’s tale
Wang Haijia ruminates over the time he has spent as a delivery driver, highlighting the dangers of the job and comparing it to other work.
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Sherpa’s fined over monopoly on delivering food to foreigners in Shanghai
A week ago we didn’t know if regulators saw e-commerce as a market. The Sherpa’s case show that delivering food in English in Shanghai is a market.
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Ask China Anything: Why do you buy fresh produce online?
Online grocery platforms such as Miss Fresh, Alibaba’s Freshippo, and newcomer Dingdong give customers access to food delivery at the touch of a button.
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AI may solve Meituan’s offline headaches
As the Chinese O2O market settles and room for scalability shrinks, an AI race is set to fire up again the competition in the sector.
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Lifestyle app Meituan’s crime-busting unit sends around 90 to police
This isn’t the first time the company has conducted such a campaign.
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Hillhouse, Temasek and others may lose hundreds of millions of dollars as a Chinese startup collapses
Iwjw, a self-claimed property unicorn, appears to have gone into liquidation.
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How Meituan Dianping became China’s super-platform for services
China’s massive O2O platform Meituan Dianping is a company that defies categorization. As the company’s founder and CEO Wang Xing once said, it’s hard for them to compare to any other company. Once known as the Chinese equivalents of Groupon and Yelp, Meituan and Dianping merged in 2015 to become a company that sells movie […]
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China Tech Talk 69: Restrictions and restructurings—2018 in review, part 2
A look at the stories and trends of 2018, including gaming restrictions, Tencent’s restructuring, the delivery and coffee wars, WeChat mini programs, and Bullet Messenger.
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Shanghai, Alibaba, and Ant Financial sign new strategic partnership agreement
Alibaba will ramp up its new retail efforts in Shanghai.
