January 15, 2019
For food delivery, machines won’t replace humans any time soon
Human-machine collaboration will be the model for autonomous food delivery for a...
August 7, 2018
Today’s top tech news, August 7: Alibaba to merge food, lifestyle platforms and raise US$3B for them
Also, Xiaomi’s component supplier to invest US$200 million in India, and...
July 24, 2018
Today’s top tech news, July 24: Google launches public Wi-Fi in Thailand, experiences strong Q2 2018
Chinese food delivery startup Ele.me plans to raise new funding while Singapore...
May 17, 2018
Fragmentation may be Southeast Asia’s competitive advantage
Over the long run, China’s Duopoly and America’s oligopoly may...
April 2, 2018
Today’s top tech news, April 2: Grab/Uber deal raising competition concerns in Southeast Asia
Also, the Indonesian government suggests new regulations and Commerce.Asia...
April 2, 2018
Alibaba buys food delivery platform Ele.me
Alibaba and its financial arm Ant Financial are already the largest shareholder...
April 2, 2018
Alibaba to buy all remaining outstanding shares of local delivery service Ele.me
As expected since February, Alibaba will buy all outstanding shares of Ele.me...
March 1, 2018
What does Alibaba’s takeover of Ele.me mean? This is what China is saying
Alibaba, with its financial arm Ant Financial, is already the largest...
August 25, 2017
Captain’s Log, August 25: WeWork raises US$4.4B from SoftBank, Baidu sells food delivery unit
From Indonesia, we have announcements from Google, Musical.ly, and OLX WeWork...
August 4, 2017
Baidu Waimai said to merge with Ele.me
If Alibaba succeeds in taking both Ele.me and Baidu Waimai, this would leave...