Chinese local review site Dianping: A lot more than a “Yelp for China”
Dispatch 3 from Beijing
Chinese web companies, like those in Germany and other countries, sometimes get accused of ripping off successful U.S. ones, sometimes rightly so. But there are plenty of inspiring examples that prove the China-copycat stereotype wrong.
Local review site Dianping, for example, which may remind Americans of local review site Yelp, is a lot more than “Yelp for China” — and not only because it started a year and a half before Yelp, in early… Continue Reading