Huawei in Poland IN April and the first two weeks of May, Chinese telecom company Huawei has overtaken Samsung to become top smartphone seller in Poland, recent reports said. According to third-party market research company GfK, Huawei’s smartphone market share in Poland reached 36 percent and 34 percent respectively in April and the first two weeks of May, nearly 10 percent higher than Samsung in second place. According to GfK, compared to the same period of last year, Huawei’s market share in Poland increased around 13 percent. Zhang Jian, director of Huawei CBG Poland, said this was the first time that Huawei managed to take the leading position in Poland since 2004 when Huawei entered the market. Mobile payment BANKS posted robust growth in mobile payments in the first quarter of this year, according to the People’s Bank of China. Banking institutions handled 70.8 trillion yuan (US$11.1 trillion) in mobile payments in the period, up 16.8 percent year on year, the central bank data showed. Around 10.7 billion payments were made through the banks’ mobile services in the first quarter, an increase of 17.8 percent year on year, the central bank said. DiDi expansion DIDI Chuxing, Chinese on-demand mobility giant, has expanded its food delivery service to Nanjing to tap the growing online-to-offline market. The company’s food delivery business, DiDi Foodie, will start operations in the capital city of East China’s Jiangsu Province, on Friday. Industrial data showed that China’s food delivery market volume reached about 204.6 billion yuan last year, up 23 percent year on year. It is expected to reach 400 billion yuan this year. |