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HISTORICAL FACTS: Meituan - The Untold Story

Tech Brief (March 27): Pony AI Robotaxi Revenue Jumps 129% as Fleet Expands

Meituan swings to 2025 net loss on bruising delivery war, China Mobile reports slowing revenue and profit growth

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Should You Buy the Dip in Alibaba Stock?

Down 22% from its 52-week high, Alibaba stock remains a top investment in December 2025, given its widening AI moat.

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Alibaba Folds Ele.me Into Taobao As China's Delivery War Heats Up

Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA) has officially retired its longtime food-delivery brand Ele.me as it folds the service deeper into its instant-retail strategy to better compete in China’s intensifying delivery market.

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Tech Brief (Dec. 1): Baidu Initiates Largest Layoffs in Years

Meituan swings to quarterly loss, Nexperia China says supplies resume for over 500 clients

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The Week Ahead (Dec. 1 to 7): Macron Visits China, Fed Ends Quantitative Tightening

Putin to visit India, Hong Kong holds Legislative Council election

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Tech Brief (Nov. 27): Li Auto Swings to Quarterly Loss on Slumping Deliveries

China sets 2027 targets to boost consumption, Didi’s net profit jumps 67%

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Tech Brief (Nov. 4): Baidu’s Robotaxi Service Expands to 22 Cities

Amazon and OpenAI sign $38 billion deal, PBOC to explore cross-border payment solutions with digital yuan

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Alibaba Turns Local Shops Into Taobao Hubs In Fresh Challenge To JD.com And Meituan

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) launched a 2 billion yuan ($281 million) investment on Friday to build a nationwide network of Taobao-branded convenience stores that will support its fast-growing instant commerce and on-demand delivery business, Taobao Shangou.

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Tech Brief (Oct. 31): China Launches $7.2 Billion Fund for Strategic Industries

U.S. to suspend 50% or more “affiliates rule” for one year, DJI under investigation in Italy for alleged price-fixing

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Tech Brief (Oct. 28): Meituan Releases Open-Source Video Generation Model

China’s securities regulator to deepen ChiNext board reforms, XPeng expands into the Baltics and Cambodia

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Business Brief (Oct. 17): U.K. Sanctions Chinese Firms Over Russia Ties

Chinese scientists report a major breakthrough in solid-state EV batteries, Indonesia confirms purchase of Chinese J-10 fighter jets

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What's Fueling Alibaba Stock's Jump Past Its 52-Week High?

Alibaba Group's (NYSE:BABA) mapping and local services platform, Amap, reached a record 360 million daily users on the first day of China's National Day holiday, underscoring the company's growing push into the local services market.

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Jack Ma Back At Alibaba? What's Going On

Jack Ma has re-emerged at the center of Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) as the company intensifies its push into artificial intelligence and revives competition with JD.com (NASDAQ:JD) and Meituan (OTC:MPNGY).

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What's Going On With Alibaba Stock Monday?

Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) stock traded higher on Monday as its artificial intelligence endeavors continue to spur investor optimism.

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Nvidia's China Chip Boom Faces Threat As Beijing Pushes For Homegrown AI

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) has popularized the accelerators that China should ditch, a top government adviser warned, urging the country to develop domestic chips that enable artificial intelligence.

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DeepSeek And Meituan Emerge As China's Boldest AI Challengers

DeepSeek and Meituan (OTC:MPNGY) are emerging as China's strongest contenders in the escalating race to challenge OpenAI, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Alibaba (NYSE:BABA), and Tencent (OTC:TCEHY) in global artificial intelligence.

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Are There Opportunities to Invest in China?

Opportunities to invest in China are plentiful and, arguably, shouldn't be ignored in the U.S. Here's where to look.

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Alibaba Unites Its Empire To Fight Back Against Meituan

Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) and its fintech affiliate Ant Group, co-founded by Jack Ma, have launched a unified strategy to take on Meituan (OTC:MPNGY) in China’s instant commerce market.

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Nvidia's Dilemma Could Redefine The Future Of China Tech ETFs

Nvidia Corp’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) uneasy dance between Washington and Beijing is quickly becoming a market-defining saga for China-focused tech ETFs. The chipmaker is gearing up to ship its new AI chip, likely to be called the B30A processor, next month, according to a Reuters report. This new product will be a…

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Yum China’s sales keep growing, but a fierce food-delivery price war may be weighing on investor sentiment

Yum China’s HK-traded shares are down about 3% since Tuesday, even as the KFC and Pizza Hut operator posted 4% year-on-year revenue growth last quarter.

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China's Crackdown Forces Alibaba, JD, And Meituan To Call Truce On Price War

Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA), Meituan (OTC:MPNGY), and JD.com (NASDAQ:JD) pledged on Friday to end aggressive price-based competition that has squeezed margins and drawn regulatory scrutiny.

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Party's Over: China Tells Alibaba, Meituan, JD To Stop Bleeding

On Friday, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) called upon three of the country’s leading food delivery platforms: Alibaba Group’s (NYSE:BABA) Ele.me, Meituan (OTC:MPNGY), and JD.com (NASDAQ:JD). The regulator urged these companies to adopt more “rational” competitive practices amidst an escalating price war within the sector.

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Meituan Cries 'Irrational!' As Alibaba Escalates Delivery Battle

Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) escalated China’s instant delivery price war by launching a massive 50 billion Chinese yuan subsidy program for consumers and merchants on its Taobao Shangou platform, intensifying an already cutthroat battle for market share against JD.com (NASDAQ:JD) and Meituan (OTC:MPNGY).

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Alibaba Intensifies Instant Delivery Fight With New Campaign

Chinese e-commerce juggernaut Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA) is intensifying its efforts in China’s fiercely competitive instant delivery market by launching a new 100-day Super Saturdays campaign under its Taobao Shangou brand.

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Alibaba Bleeds Billions As Delivery Price War Erases $100 Billion In Market Value

Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA) matched its record of 80 million on-demand deliveries on Saturday, intensifying its competition with Meituan (OTC:MPNGF) (OTC:MPNGY) and JD.com (NASDAQ:JD) in China’s high-stakes quick-delivery market.

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