Uber blocked on biggest Chinese messaging app
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#JA5Q)
WeChat has quietly disabled all of the minicab app's accounts, apparently as part of the country's taxi wars
Uber has been blocked on China's most popular messaging app WeChat, as the battle between taxi-apps in the country heats up.
The blocking comes shortly after the leading Chinese minicab app, and Uber competitor, Didi Kuaidi, raised $2bn of private equity funding from a raft of investors including e-commerce websiteAlibaba and the state development corporation CDC.
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