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Cars-as-a-service, Alibaba and ridehailing, mental health, and the future of financial services

Cars-as-a-service, Alibaba and ridehailing, mental health, and the future of financial services Danny Crichton 7 hours

The future of car ownership: Cars-as-a-service

It’s Mobility Day at TechCrunch, and we’re hosting our Sessions event today in beautiful San Jose. That’s why we have a couple of related pieces on mobility at Extra…

Can China’s ride-hailing leader Didi repair its troubled reputation?

2018 was supposed to be another shinny year for Didi Chuxing. The steer-hailing upstart had been celebrated as a properity tale in China’s booming sharing economy. Six years after founding, it had become the default app for Chinese people to move around, thanks in no little part to its acquisition of Uber China in 2016.Meituan Dianping and other challengers struggled to curb its authority and the…

Confirmed: Alibaba Group Takes $294M, 28% Stake In China’s Navigation/Location Services Specialist AutoNavi, As It Gets Down To Business On Mobile

Alibaba faction is reportedly now the largest individual shareholder in AutoNavi, a beijing-based maker of electronic navigation tools and area-based services. The Chinese Internet giant has formed a strategic alliance with AutoNavi, on the back of a $294 million investment. This gives it a 28% stake in the navigation company, which is China’s largest, with 116 million users of its free mobile…

Hey Apple,

It’s been years since Apple Maps first rolled out with iOS 6. The service has been continuously improving, and it’s now about to turn 3 this year.

The Maps in Taiwan is recently integrated with data from Yelp and TripAdvisor, adding more venues visible on the map. That’s a great move. It can finally provide more and better POIs with ratings and user photos.

But those newly-added venues are unable to be searched, even though it is just visibly placed on the map. The root cause is that the search results are from AutoNavi/Amap (高德地图), a map provider from China but is irontically selected as the map source in Taiwan.

AutoNavi gives unbelievalbe terrible map data in Taiwan. The venue infos from AutoNavi are usually wrong or incomplete. And it often returns irrelevant search results, making search useless and unhelpful.

This has been bothering and annoying since Apple Maps launched. Now that you’ve have Yelp integrated, it’s time to wave farewell to AutoNavi as a map provider in Taiwan.