Meituan ’s quarterly losses shrank after repeated warnings from Beijing helped cool the red-hot competition that hammered margins in China’s online commerce arena. The company reported an operating loss of 6.5 billion yuan ($961 million) for the three months ended March, better than the average analyst projection for about 9 billion yuan. Revenue grew 5.6% to 91 billion yuan, about in line with pr...
Meituan ’s quarterly losses shrank after repeated warnings from Beijing helped cool the red-hot competition that hammered margins in China’s online commerce arena. The company reported an operating loss of 6.5 billion yuan ($961 million) for the three months ended March, better than the average analyst projection for about 9 billion yuan. Revenue grew 5.6% to 91 billion yuan, about in line with projections. While the results were better than feared, Meituan remains locked in a costly battle with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and JD.com Inc. to defend its market share in food delivery. The trio have spent billions on subsidies and marketing in the past year. Meituan reported its first net loss in almost three years for the quarter ended September. Founder and CEO Wang Xing said in March that losses per order have started narrowing, after Chinese authorities acted to rein in an intense competition that’s squeezed profits for platforms, merchants as well as drivers. The antitrust watchdog in January opened a probe into competition practices in the food delivery sector, and started a new round of investigations into e-commerce recently. China’s market regulator also fined Meituan and rivals including Alibaba and JD a total of 3.6 billion yuan for failing to filter out unqualified merchants. The penalty came after a series of probes into “ghost deliveries,” in which merchants registered with online marketplaces with fake locations and falsified documents. Facing fierce competition and scrutiny domestically, Meituan has been expanding overseas. Its first international operation, branded Keeta, turned a profit in Hong Kong last year. The Chinese company also operates in Brazil, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Qatar. Wang said overall losses from new initiatives will narrow this year compared to 2025, and the company will focus on current markets in overseas expansion. What Bloomberg Intelligence Says Meituan’s core local-commerce declines will likely persist for a third str...
Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images News SoftBank ( SFTBY ) is now Japan's most valuable company as the AI-driven rally pushed its market capitalization past Toyota's ( TM ) for the first time in over two decades. The Masayoshi Son-led company's market cap reached ¥48.78T (~$305.9B) on Monday, eclipsing Toyota's ( TM ) ¥45.89T (~$287.8B). SoftBank, whose Tokyo-listed shares ended 14% higher on Monday, an...
Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images News SoftBank ( SFTBY ) is now Japan's most valuable company as the AI-driven rally pushed its market capitalization past Toyota's ( TM ) for the first time in over two decades. The Masayoshi Son-led company's market cap reached ¥48.78T (~$305.9B) on Monday, eclipsing Toyota's ( TM ) ¥45.89T (~$287.8B). SoftBank, whose Tokyo-listed shares ended 14% higher on Monday, announced over the weekend that it would invest up to €75B to build AI data centers in France. The company is aggressively spending on AI and is one of OpenAI's ( OPENAI ) top shareholders, after investing over $30B in the AI startup. While SoftBank's shares in Tokyo gained 85% this year, Toyota's stock declined about 15%. "SoftBank has concentrated its management resources on AI-related businesses and has successfully ridden the broader global tech rally," Tomo Kinoshita, global market strategist at Invesco Asset Management Japan, told Bloomberg News . "Toyota, meanwhile, has been hit by rising oil prices stemming from the Iran war, which raises the cost of operating vehicles and weighs on global auto demand," he added. Kinoshita said the valuation gap could reverse if crude prices decline and support automotive demand, but the long-term trajectory favors tech. More on SoftBank, Toyota Motor SoftBank (SFTB:CA) Q4 2026 Earnings Call Transcript Toyota Motor (TM) Q4 2026 Earnings Call Transcript SoftBank to build AI data center network in France with $52B investment Toyota increases production mix of EVs, hybrids amid high gas prices
Pakistan’s inflation accelerated to the highest in two years as the war in the Middle East pushed up energy import costs. The consumer prices index rose 11.7% in May from a year earlier, data from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics showed Monday. The reading is lower than the median estimate of 12.2% in a Bloomberg survey of economists. Inflation climbed 10.9% in April. The conflict in the Middle E...
Pakistan’s inflation accelerated to the highest in two years as the war in the Middle East pushed up energy import costs. The consumer prices index rose 11.7% in May from a year earlier, data from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics showed Monday. The reading is lower than the median estimate of 12.2% in a Bloomberg survey of economists. Inflation climbed 10.9% in April. The conflict in the Middle East has heightened risks for fuel-importing economies across Asia, where rising energy prices are worsening inflation and straining external balances. That is forcing policymakers to take emergency measures to stabilize currencies and contain economic fallout. Pakistan’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate for the first time in almost three years in April. The monetary authority will hold its next rate review meeting on June 15. Since the war began, authorities have mostly raised fuel prices several times. Petrol and diesel prices remain 48% and 38% higher, respectively, than their pre-war levels, according to government data.
黄仁勋今天在中国台北做了两件事:把 CUDA 塞进了笔记本,把万亿参数推理搬到了桌边。 这不是英伟达在和云厂商抢生意。AWS、Azure、Google Cloud 是英伟达最大的几个客户,每年向它采购数百亿美元的 GPU。英伟达不会跟自己的金主动刀。 真正发生的事是:英伟达在扩张收费口。以前 AI 算力只有一条路——买英伟达的 GPU 放进云厂商的数据中心。现在多了两条:RTX Spark 笔记本...
黄仁勋今天在中国台北做了两件事:把 CUDA 塞进了笔记本,把万亿参数推理搬到了桌边。 这不是英伟达在和云厂商抢生意。AWS、Azure、Google Cloud 是英伟达最大的几个客户,每年向它采购数百亿美元的 GPU。英伟达不会跟自己的金主动刀。 真正发生的事是:英伟达在扩张收费口。以前 AI 算力只有一条路——买英伟达的 GPU 放进云厂商的数据中心。现在多了两条:RTX Spark 笔记本,DGX Station 桌面机。无论你选哪条,英伟达都在路口等着。黄仁勋管自己叫"基础设施公司",这句话的意思是:AI 跑在哪里不重要,重要的是英伟达铺了路。 CUDA 第一次进了背包 英伟达三十年真正的护城河不是 GPU,是 CUDA。750 万开发者在上面工作,PyTorch、TensorRT、TensorRT-LLM、llama.cpp,主流 AI 框架的最优路径全在这里。二十年建成,没有任何一家公司复制过。 麻烦是 CUDA 一直被关在数据中心里。云端写的代码带不进轻薄本,高通 Snapdragon X 做了很多,就是没有 CUDA,苹果 M 系列是另一个世界。 RTX Spark 拆掉了这道墙。20 核 ARM CPU 加 Blackwell GPU 的 6144 个 CUDA 核,128GB 统一内存,AI 算力 1 PetaFLOP,塞进 14 毫米厚的笔记本。英伟达已与 100 家 Windows 软件商谈妥,TensorRT、PyTorch CUDA 后端、TensorRT-LLM 原生支持。在数据中心写了三年 CUDA 的工程师,拿起 RTX Spark 笔记本,理论上不需要改一行代码。 高通碰上的麻烦不是算力输了,是叙事失守了。Snapdragon X 花三年把 Windows on ARM 的口碑做起来,能效比终于接近苹果——唯一没拿下的是 AI 开发者。那批人一直站在场外,等一台能跑 CUDA 的 Windows 笔记本。 英伟达带着 CUDA 来了,他们等到了。 Snapdragon X 不是没有筹码。美国 800 美元以上 Windows 笔记本市场它占了 10%,80 多个 OEM 设计在跑,X2 Elite 今年上半年发布,NPU 直奔 80 TOPS,先发优势是真实的。但没有 CUDA,高通在 AI 开发者那里永远只能是备选项。 桌边开...