Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Apr 1, 2019 (I)

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(1) Javier Blas, Oil | US Exports.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a ... l-exports-is-coming

Note:
(a) The report in print is much more shorter than the online one.
(b) The title in table of content in print: The US will soon be the world's No 2 oil exporter


(2) Lulu Chen, David Ramli and Peter Elstrom, The People Degustation Army. (the first of the three feature stories).
https://www.bloomberg.com/featur ... na-delivery-empire/

Quote:

"Abey Lin, a 19-year-old Californian studying at Beijing Film Academy, uses his smartphone to order a local restaurant's roast duck dish for 20 yuan ($2.99), about 80 percent less than it costs at the register, via delivery app Meituan. He can get a 40 percent discount on two pizzas topped with golden potatoes and barbecued seafood. Meituan charges $1.46 for a bean curd dish from another shop, a little over a third of the price on the restaurant's menu. It would be tough for Lin to beat that price even if he had a kitchenette to make the dish himself. 'It blew my mind,' he says.

"Across the country, millions of people like Lin are ordering in two or three meals a day, as well as groceries, office supplies, haircuts, massages, and whatever else they might want. Behind this $35 billion delivery market isn’t exactly efficiency, though—it’s a fight between Meituan and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, China's most valuable company. Alibaba and its various subsidiaries dominate the country’s online retail market for physical goods, but Meituan is leading the way in services. Its namesake app, a sort of mashup of Grubhub, Expedia, MovieTickets.com, Groupon, and Yelp, has 600,000 delivery people serving 400 million customers a year in 2,800 cities. Alibaba is betting it can undercut Meituan to death. Both companies are spending billions in an escalating war of subsidies that might persuade even Jeff Bezos to cut his losses.

Note:
(a)
(i) summary underneath the title in print: Meituan remade life in China's cities with 600,000 people delivering meals and other services. Now it just has to outlast the country's biggest internet giant
(ii) online title: The World's Greatest Delivery Empire Made It Cheaper to Order In Than Eat Out
(iii) Print and the online version are identical.

(b) English dictionaries:
(i) degustation (n; etymology)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/degustation
(ii)
(A) Wiktionary.com says the noun mashup is from the verb "mash up."
(B) mash up (vt): "to reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading"
www.memidex.com/mashed-up
(C) 'Mash-Up' Term is Over 150 Years Old!  Disruptive Library Technology Jester, Mar 4, 2010
https://dltj.org/article/mash-up/
("OED includes this quotation: '1859D. BOUCICAULT Octoroon I. 13 He don't understand; he speaks a mash up of Indian, French, and Mexican' ")

I am clueless about "He don't understand." My assumption is a speaker with broken English described another person "he."

For octoroon, see quadroon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadroon