AliExpress Russia, the e-commerce joint venture between Alibaba Group Holding and three Russian partners, including Mail.ru Group, has begun a wave of lay-offs, according to a Russian news report, as Chinese tech companies scale back their operations in the country after the invasion of Ukraine, reports the South China Morning Post. The job cuts, which […]
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Huya, a Chinese video game streaming website, has begun a large number of layoffs, according to three sources close to the matter. The layoffs comes after China’s tech industry has faced an increasing number of regulatory clampdowns over the last year, reports Reuters. Huya, which is controlled by Tencent and was once part of a […]
Chinese on-demand delivery giant Meituan is the next in a long line of the country’s tech giants to have to lay off many of its employees. The company’s lay-off plan spans its core units, including food and grocery deliveries, restaurant reviews, hotel reservations, community buying and financial services, reports the South China Morning Post. Meituan […]
Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group has made wide-reaching upgrades to its DingTalk platform, a workplace chat tool akin to Slack or Microsoft Teams, in an attempt to promote the app as a gateway to the digitalization of Chinese firms’ business, reports the South China Morning Post. Users of the platform, previously accused by critics of […]
Tencent-backed WeDoctor, one of China’s major online health care platforms, is letting go a significant number of its employees after the company’s plans for an IPO were delayed, reports Bloomberg. According to people familiar with the matter, the health care startup has already shrunk its workforce down to about 3,000 employees from around 4,000 last […]