BLOOMBERG Amazon.com Inc’s share of online orders spiked in the final days of the holiday shopping season, demonstrating how big investments in delivery speed paid off with procrastinating shoppers looking for a wide selection of products they could get quickly. Amazon captured 29% of global order volume in the final two weeks before Christmas, up from 21% the week of …

BLOOMBERG Meituan has become Hong Kong’s second-largest food delivery platform since debuting in the city last May, a sign that splashy subsidies are boosting the company’s first major foray outside mainland China. The internet firm’s sister app “KeeTa” accounted for 37% of the local food delivery market in December, according to data from Measurable AI, a Hong Kong-based firm that …

BEIJING / WAM The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Centre for Forecasting Science released a report, projecting that China’s economy will sustain steady growth in 2024, with an estimated GDP growth rate of approximately 5.3 percent. According to China Daily, the report indicated that in 2024, the year-on-year growth rates for the primary, secondary and tertiary industries’ output are expected to …