Alibaba’s workplace collaboration app DingTalk officially launched in Hong Kong on Watch Married Woman Who Can’t Say No OnlineNovember 28, marking a key step in its global expansion strategy. DingTalk will establish a dedicated service team in Hong Kong to better address local customer needs and develop a localized ecosystem, the company said last Thursday. The app offers features such as real-time translation in over 20 languages and compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. The app, now a separate business unit of Alibaba, recorded an annual recurring revenue exceeding $200 million in the first half of Alibaba’s fiscal 2025. It faces competition from rivals like ByteDance’s Lark, which is targeting overseas markets such as Japan and Southeast Asia. DingTalk had 700 million users by the end of 2023. [IThome, in Chinese]
