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By Lulu Yilun Chen and Shelly Banjo

August 23, 2018 at 11:50 AM UTC

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August 23, 2018 at 12:28 PM UTC

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Jack Ma is used to fighting on many battlefronts. Now he’s concentrating his firepower on being the last one standing in food-delivery and online services in China.

Ma’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is merging its Ele.me and Koubei units and injecting it with more than $3 billion from a funding round led by SoftBank Group Corp. That will give it more ammunition to take on rival Meituan Dianping as it tries to seize control of China’s $1.3 trillion food delivery and online services industry.