Tag: Alibaba
Africa Roundup: Trump’s Nigeria ban, Paga’s acquisition and raises — Fluterwave...
The first month of the new-year saw Africa enter the fray of U.S. politics. The Trump administration announced last week it would halt immigration...
How Bykea is winning Pakistan’s ride-hailing and delivery market
Increasingly, the streets of Karachi and Lahore are being flooded with men riding bikes and wearing green T-shirts, a writer friend recently told me....
Y Combinator’s short-lived China dream
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people...
Chinese EV startup Xpeng Motors raises $400 million, takes on Xiaomi...
Xpeng Motors, the Chinese electric vehicle startup backed by Alibaba and Foxconn, has raised a fresh injection of $400 million in capital and has...
DHL expands Africa eShop online retail app to 34 countries
DHL has expanded its DHL Africa eShop business to 13 additional markets, upping the presence of the global shipping company’s e-commerce platform to 34...
Alibaba acquires NetEase Kaola in deal worth $2 billion
Alibaba Group has acquired NetEase Kaola for $2 billion, the two companies said today, and will integrate it into Tmall, creating the largest cross-border...
Alibaba cloud biz is on a run rate over $4B
Alibaba announced its earnings today, and the Chinese ecommerce giant got a nice lift from its cloud business, which grew 66 percent to more...
Tencent brings cloud service to Japan in global push
The world’s largest video game publisher is looking outside its home country for growth. Tencent, the Chinese internet behemoth that operates WeChat and a...
Hellobike, survivor of China’s bike-sharing craze, goes electric
Just two years ago, investors were heavily pouring money into China’s dockless bike-sharing startups. Now that boom has busted with derelict bikes littering the...
Kabbage secures $200M to fuel its AI-based loans platform for small...
Kabbage, the AI-based small business loans platform backed by Softbank and others, is adding more firepower to its lending machine: the Atlanta-based startup has...
