The US delegation announced the deal on Wednesday, but did not disclose the specific price of the transaction. Two sources told Reuters that the value of the transaction was worth $2.7 billion.
Mobai is facing the challenge of Ali's support of theo. The latter also uses Didi as a major investor. The US group’s wholly-owned acquisition of Mobai will consolidate the resources of the two companies. Both of them have been received by Chinese gaming and social media giant Tencent. Support. At the same time, this transaction means that the shared bicycle industry ushered in the two camps of 'Tencent's US Mission' and 'Ali Didi' ofo'. Ali's also has a Haro bicycle, Yongan line, Didi and its own shared bicycle brand. Green bicycle.
Both Mobike and ofo raised hundreds of millions of dollars from investors, but in order to win the Chinese and overseas markets, they launched a costly subsidy war.
In a letter sent to employees by the Mobour executives on Wednesday, '(we) need to be more consciously aware that the competition facing Mobai is becoming increasingly fierce,'
In June of this year, Mobike raised 600 million U.S. dollars under the leadership of Tencent, and expanded to Singapore, the United States and the United Kingdom.
The ofo said this month that in the new round of financing led by Alibaba, the company received US$ 866 million. Both Mobike and Ofo stated that they have approximately 200 million users worldwide.
The U.S. delegation stated that as part of the acquisition, U.S. and Mobike will share technology, operations, marketing and customer service resources. The U.S. delegation stated that Mobike has more than 30 million rides every day and it will maintain its own brand. And maintain the existing management team.
This merger will help the U.S. Group to increase its product offerings in the on-demand industry. Several companies supported by Alibaba will also integrate all aspects of their payments and applications to create relevance, provide ticketing, share bicycles, taxis and takeaways. .
Earlier this week, Alibaba said that it would be completely hungry to control China's take-away platform. It is also a competitor to the US group.
Alibaba's support of Didi has begun to integrate the services of OFO into its own platform, and launched its own brand of shared bicycles.