Alibaba Group Holding has earmarked 1 billion yuan (US$142 million) to waive delivery charges on Taobao users in Hong Kong for each order that costs more than 99 yuan during this fourth quarter. The three-month campaign covers categories such as fashion accessories, electronics, skincare and cosmetic products on Taobao, according to Alibaba, owner of the … Read more
New data released by Meituan, China’s largest on-demand services provider, showed that its food delivery crews working in major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen earn more on average than the local population. According to the report, Meituan delivery people who work in major cities and meet the company’s minimum work time requirement took … Read more
Meituan, China’s largest on-demand local services provider, said its 7.45 million delivery workers drew 80 billion yuan (US$11.3 billion) in total income from the platform last year, company co-founder and chief executive Wang Xing said in an internal letter on Tuesday. About 4.5 million of those delivery workers are also covered with insurance for occupational … Read more
Beijing-based Meituan on Monday introduced its food ordering and delivery service in Al-Kharj, a central city in the Gulf nation, according to an in-app announcement. The platform also appears to be launching soon in Saudi Arabia’s largest city, the capital Riyadh, according to a profile description of its verified account on X. A Meituan representative … Read more
Chinese e-commerce platform Pinduoduo will start removing sellers of counterfeit products from its multibillion yuan subsidy programme, as its operator – Temu owner PDD Holdings – and major rivals make operational changes in response to Beijing’s “anti-involution” call. Pinduoduo on Monday updated its rules for merchants taking part in its subsidy programme, stating that the … Read more
The hardline stance by the world’s largest unicorn shows the lengths it is taking to retain and attract talent, as the company boosts productivity and continues to restructure its operations this year. ByteDance says it has a “zero-tolerance” approach towards corruption and bribery. Photo: Shutterstock Monday’s statement by ByteDance singled out several cases. One involved … Read more
Chinese food delivery giant Meituan has partnered with Midea, one of the world’s largest home appliances makers, to enable app users to order products ranging from refrigerators to dishwashers and receive them in as little as 30 minutes. The collaboration will connect 25,000 Midea retail stores to the Meituan platform by the end of this … Read more
TikTok, the global hit short video platform owned by ByteDance, is set to jump into Southeast Asia’s local services sector, initially enabling users in Indonesia and Thailand to obtain vouchers for restaurants, flights and hotels via links on their feeds. Restaurants owners and merchants in those two countries are being encouraged to join the social … Read more
That iteration, called HarmonyOS Next, will be a “China-originated, independent and controllable” operating system, Richard Yu Chengdong, chairman of Huawei’s consumer business group, said at the company’s developer conference on Friday. The Shenzhen-based company launched at the conference a beta version of HarmonyOS Next for developers, with a beta upgrade for consumers expected in August. … Read more
Shenzhen-based Huawei is close to reaching a deal with Tencent to make its super app WeChat fully operational on HarmonyOS without sharing any revenue, according to a report by Bloomberg on Wednesday, citing anonymous sources. While Douyin now has a HarmonyOS-compatible version available for download, the Bloomberg report said ByteDance expressed no interest in opening … Read more
