Mobile cab-booking service Uber is unlikely to create an upheaval in the Hong Kong taxi market in the short run due to its high pricing, the Hong Kong Economic Journal said Friday. The taxi app has se ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-18
OK, so maybe she was wrong then but that doesn't make him right now. Agence France-Presse reports that a mainland man identified only as Wang has spent the equivalent of US$40,000 booking out four IM ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-27
Chinese car booking services provider Yongche.com is spreading its footprint to the United States, the home turf of rival Uber, by offering something new -- Putonghua-speaking drivers. Starting with S ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-17
... di's taxi-booking hotline for senior citizens who felt disenfranchised by their lack of knowledge about the apps. Also, expectant mothers may redeem points to get a free ride. Taxi app users are expec ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-26
... matter of booking and inventory. The airline uses a homegrown system more suited to the needs of Chinese passengers. Most carriers use foreign-made software. This allows XiamenAir to offer a combinati ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-18
... oupons by booking an appointment on the website before visiting a Zocai shop. Shoppers now spend on average 7,000-8,000 yuan on each purchase on Zocai’s website, according to Wu. Entrepreneurs may wan ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-14
... -- hotel bookings -- is probably the real problem. Ctrip, which offers one-stop holiday booking services, reported a net profit of 998 million yuan for the year. Cui has insisted on hotel bookings as ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-04
Shanghai will ban the use of taxi booking applications during traffic peak hours starting from March, Caijing.com reported Thursday, citing a notice issued by the city’s transportation authority. The ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-27
... ast year, booking a net profit of 2.26 billion yuan on revenue of 15.53 billion yuan, the report said. CSOT is now the fifth-largest producer of TFT-LCD panels globally. Meanwhile, TCL's mobile handse ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-25
... ocal taxi-booking apps like Didi Dache {嘀嘀打車} and Kuaidi Dache {快的打車}. But those comparisons with mass-market offerings are misplaced -- Uber has made it clear that its China operation is aimed only a ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-06
... ear after booking 170.9 billion yuan in 2013, but it has not disclosed the new figure, according to the report. -- Contact HKEJ at [email protected] KZ/AC/SK ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-27
Alibaba's Mobile Alipay and taxi-booking app developer Hangzhou Kuaidi Technology Co., Ltd. said Wednesday that they are setting aside 500 million yuan (US$82.6 million) for a rewards scheme that give ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-22
... nth. Taxi-booking apps have become popular among mobile users, especially in China's major cities where getting a cab during rush hours can be a daily ordeal, but the fast and furious manner that both ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-07
... adventure booking to a South Pole penguin sanctuary, Alibaba said. In 2013, Taobao shoppers spent 870 million yuan to buy anti-smog gear such as masks and air cleaners. Related transactions came to 4. ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-13
... ir money, booking tickets or shopping online. Alibaba’s one-day sales of 35 billion yuan (US$5.7 billion) during its Nov. 11 "Singles Day" promotion gives just an idea of how big the market already is ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-04
... el. After booking paltry revenue of 1 million yuan back in 2010, Boyaa jumped onto the mobile gaming bandwagon and never looked back. This year it is well on the way to the 200 million yuan mark, than ...More
EJ Insight2013-11-07
... ations by booking a first-half net profit of 1.4 billion yuan, up 37 percent year on year, the report said. -- Contact HKEJ at [email protected] EL/AC/RA ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-09
