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Ep. 26: The O2O Local Services War: Alibaba vs. Meituan? Part 2: Koubei

In Ep. 26 of TechBuzz China, co-hosts Ying-Ying Lu and Rui Ma discuss Koubei, rounding up the second installment of a two-part deep-dive into the local services space in China. An Alibaba subsidiary, Koubei recently merged with ele.me, another Alibaba-owned (via acquisition) entity which was covered in Ep. 25 last week.

Ep. 25: The O2O Local Services War: Alibaba vs. Meituan? Part 1: Ele.me

In Ep. 25 of TechBuzz China, co-hosts Ying-Ying Lu and Rui Ma talk about Alibaba’s recent moves to firm up its strategy around local services, putting pressure on Meituan-Dianping to defend itself.

Ele.me and Koubei Merged to Become Alibaba’s New Local Life Service Company

Alibaba Group announced today to merge the online food delivery service platform Ele.me and its local commerce platform Koubei into a new local life service company.

Ele.me is Now Available on Alipay’s Home Page

On October 16, Ele.me announced it would run food-delivery service on Alipay and Koubei, preceded by its consolidation of Baidu’s food delivery unit—Baidu Takeout. Meanwhile, food delivering is changed into “Ele.me Takeout” on the front-page of Alipay’s app, making Ele.me one of the 11 original applications on Alipay home page interface. A while ago, Takeout […]

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