
China e-commerce: Chaos in the community

With investor sentiment on China’s technology sector cooling, community group buying platforms are battling to conserve cash. This has done little for the government’s anti-monopoly drive
Pengyu He, founder and CEO of Tongcheng Life, once China’s leading community group buying operator, made his last address to employees in early July, standing between two policemen in the Suzhou Arbitration...
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