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Kangjia, The co-founder and CSO of Ele.me

E-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is said to have invested $1.25 billion in ele.me, becoming the biggest shareholder of the food delivery application.

According to a report from caixin.com on Friday, the two parties have already reached an agreement but the deal is expected to be completed after China's Spring Festival in February 2016.

Meizu's Official Weibo (Chinese tweeter) released it's smartphone sales volume - 8.9 millions, 540% up than last year.

After the cooperation with Alibaba, Meizu developed more smartphones in a year compared with years before the cooperation. Meilan Note II is just 6-month after Meilan Note, In June, MX5 started to march on the market.

After the competition of hardware, Chinese smartphone manufactures reliazed the importance of software - smartphone ROM. Now more and more Chinese smartphone manufacures bring their own Android-based OS/ROMs for smart phones.

Flyme ROM

Flyme ROM is developed by MEIZU for it's own MX (dream) model. Its UI design is simple and eye-candy. Unlike other Chinese ROMs' unlimited-integration, Flyme only provide simple and good enough functions.

Samsung smartphones was able to use Flyme ROM in July 2014.

This week Amazon opened its own digital storefront on rival Alibaba's Tmall ( http://amazon.tmall.com/ ), an online marketplace for consumers in China, which hosts merchant's storefronts and lets Alibaba take a cut of sales.

The marriage between Amazon and Alibaba is, to put it mildly, an odd one. Alibaba is China's largest e-commerce company. And after going public in the US last year -- in an historic IPO that saw it raise $25 billion -- it has set its sights on e-commerce in the US, where companies like Amazon and eBay dominate. Meanwhile, Amazon has been trying for years to be a major presence in the Chinese market, where it's been able to capture only a small share.