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Chinese Ride-Sharing Giant Didi Chuxing Picks Its First English-Speaking Nation: To Enter Australia on June 25 (cnet.com)
From a report: Ever since outperforming Uber in its home base of China, speculation has mounted that ride-hailer Didi Chuxing would eventually branch out to the rest of the world. Didi's first launch in an English-speaking country comes on June 25, it was announced Thursday, when it'll start operations in Melbourne, Australia. The company has already begun recruiting local drivers. While you might not have heard of it, Didi is China's most popular ride-hailing service, and in 2016 absorbed Uber China in a deal worth around $35 billion.
They speak English in Australia??
The same language but all the words are pronounced backwards.
Idid should do much better there than Rebu.
You're a narom.
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They speak English in Australia??
Nah, we stalk strine[1]
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[1] A homage to a book from the '60's .. LET STALK STRINE : A Lexicon of Modern Strine Usage
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Didi like a lot of Chinese companies seem to benefit from a lot of protectionism in China to grow and evolve. Surely this is giving them an unfair advantage when they decide to jump into other markets?
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
They're a taxi service skirting labor laws.
Didi is not Uber. In China, if you want a taxi, you can use Didi to hail it. Traditional taxis and "ride sharing" are integrated into a single service.
Didi Chuxing are going to have a hard time expanding beyond tourists....
WARNING for tourists hey if your washing your money in a Melbourne Casino why not let the Chinese state track how much time you spent at the tables...
have fun
John
Why not just divide the Pacific up democratically?
5 million to New Zealand
5 million to Singapore
8 million to PNG
18 million to Chile
24 million to Taiwan
25 million to Australia
25 million to North Korea
30 million to Malaysia
30 million to Peru
36 million to Canada
50 million to South Korea
92 million to Vietnam
100 million to the Philippines
130 million to Japan
130 million to Mexico
145 million to Russia
260 million to Indonesia
320 million to USA
1.4 billion to China
That's assuming no stake in the Atlantic for USA.
They're a taxi service skirting labor laws...It bothers me to see the way mega corps can so easily shape are narratives.
So you want to choose the narrative for us?
In my own mind it's both. Some drivers are full time time, and for them they are simply an improved much better taxi service that outdated laws have failed to recognise. The law will catch-up soon and then you can rest easy.
For the rest, they are part time ride share type drivers. I have a few friends who are registered drivers and this is how they use the sevice. Again the law will catch up soon and recognise the technology has made the 19th century laws obsolete.
We've already had draft bills here which would see casual driver (less than a certain amount of hours per week) treated as ride share, and full timers treated as Taxis. So these current problems are not unsolvable.
This is how 'non-dense' people tackle these types of things, with solutions rather than simply complaining..
...in not getting randomly raided by Chinese authorities on a regular basis.
your thin skin doesn't make me a troll