Chinese car maintenance company Bopai, which operates via an online-to-offline model where consumers hail various brick-and-mortar services through smartphones, last March announced an $18 million funding round from powerful investors including Chinese e-commerce site JD.com and venture capital Innovation Works. Its founder, Ji Wei, claimed that customers in 22 cities were able to order services such as car washing, wheel alignment and air filter inspection for as low as 1 yuan.

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TrendForce’s latest look at the smartphone industry’s quarterly shipments not only makes good reading for Samsung, it offers the South Korean company a rare chance to capitalize on a moment of strength over rivals Apple.

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After launching in India last year, Udacity has made its way to China.

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Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin lost a collective $3.8 billion dollars in after-hours trading on Thursday after Alphabet, Google’s parent company, reported its first quarter earnings and missed analysts’ forecasts.

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