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Meituan-Dianping Merge in China, Facebook Messenger’s Business Model, Facebook and Teens

Posted onMonday, October 19, 2015Saturday, March 24, 2018 Author by Ben Thompson

China’s O2O market is in the consolidation phase, and the competition is fierce. That, though, helps highlight why an advertising business model is sometimes so attractive, like, for example, the one that Facebook has. Plus, why the “Facebook has a problem with teens” narrative really isn’t a big deal

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