Meet ByteDance‘s biggest homegrown rival: Kuaishou. With more than 300 million DAUs, the app has become Instagram for people who live outside the biggest cities in China.

Exclusive: Top Didi Executive Outlines How Ride-Hailing Will Bounce Back by Yunan Zhang and Shai Oster theinformation.com/articles/exclu…

Five Startups Bidding to Be China’s SaaS Stars by Yunan Zhang and Shai Oster theinformation.com/articles/five-…

Chinese Rival Launches U.S. App to Challenge TikTok thein.fo/952c473355b06e… via The Information

I have three pages of notes for tomorrow's subscriber call on everything TikTok. We may run a little over :) See you there with Yunan Zhang Juro Osawa Nick Wingfield Alex Heath theinformation.com/events/future-…

Scoop: I learned Walmart joined Microsoft's bid for TikTok submitted yesterday. theinformation.com/articles/walma…

OMG plot thickens theinformation.com/briefings/c8e4…

🇨🇳🇺🇸New: CEO of TikTok owner ByteDance believed that technology transcends borders 🧚‍♂️ 🧚‍♀️. That was kinda smart...until it *really* wasn’t. via ⁦Juro Osawa⁩ ⁦Yunan Zhang⁩ theinformation.com/articles/in-ti…

Startup PR: We raised a ton of $ Disclosure to investors: We raised 31% less Startup PR: We got $ from high profile corp investor Disclosure: Corp investor stake is 0.2%. Cap tables R fascinating. theinformation.com/articles/new-d… Yunan Zhang & me

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Incisive analysis from Yunan Zhang ! Subscribe The Information China Newsletter to get the latest insights: theinformation.com/china?utm_camp…

🚗 🇨🇳 Scoop: TuSimple, Hesai and Plus are considering different ways of going public in either the U.S. or China thein.fo/7a45c95b5116d5… via Yunan Zhang

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🍎🥑🥬 The brand new tech war over “community group grocery buying” in 🇨🇳, which will 🔥 billions upon billions of 💵, is about *much* more than groceries. ⁦by Yunan Zhang⁩ theinformation.com/articles/shave…

“..optimism around China’s grocery battle is due to its business model....Chinese players are using a new approach...multiple households—often neighbors within an apartment complex—pool their food orders to buy in bulk..” Great overview by Yunan Zhang theinformation.com/articles/shave…

A look at China's online grocery business, as tech titans like Didi Chuxing offer community group buying where households pool orders to buy directly from farms (@yunanzhang_ / The Information) theinformation.com/articles/shave… techmeme.com/201211/p2#a201…

A real life rags to billionaire story. Son of small grocery store owner in poor rural village now a group buying grocery magnate. theinformation.com/articles/china… Yunan Zhang

A great answer for anyone asked about bigger companies getting into their turf: “It’s akin to a thirsty person trying to drink by jumping into a river,” Yue said. .Yunan Zhang on the next big tech behemoth out of China, Xingsheng. theinformation.com/articles/china…

Great scoop by our HK team on J&T Express raising more than $2 billion to fight Alibaba-backed courier firms: it shows how winning in Ecommerce is all about controlling shipping theinformation.com/articles/upsta… Shai Oster Juro Osawa Yunan Zhang

slaughterhouse_survivors is desperately seeking flight volunteers to bring some of the 400 pups they have rescued to loving families. Need folks flying from China to JFK, SFO, LAX, AMS, CDG. Pic of our own Barry who we are patiently waiting for