The merger of Alibaba’s domestic and overseas e-commerce businesses is expected to improve the firm’s operational and financial performance.
The AI Experts Committee is expected to promote China’s perspective on how the fast-growing technology should be governed.
The founder of bottled water company Nongfu Spring called Pinduoduo a main contributor to aggressive pricing causing ‘huge harm for Chinese brands’.
The new group brings together Taobao and Tmall Group, Alibaba International and a slew of other e-commerce operations.
The data reflects the success of China’s industrial automation strategy, as part of broader efforts to upgrade its industrial economy.
The surge was mainly on the back of Huawei’s Mate X5, which was launched last September and has remained the top-selling foldable model since.
Rokid’s US$345 smart glasses are the latest from China to adopt generative AI to capitalise on the burgeoning product category.
Net income surged 58 per cent to US$6 billion in the three months that ended in September, beating analysts’ estimates.
DingTalk was once a unit under Alibaba Cloud, but became a separate business last August amid the firm’s largest-ever corporate restructuring.
The Shanghai-based company recorded an adjusted net profit of 235.9 million yuan (US$33.6 million) during the third quarter.
Video gaming sales, traditionally Tencent’s strongest revenue driver, grew 14% in the domestic market.
The two e-commerce giants reported a large number of active buyers in this year’s edition of the world’s largest annual shopping festival.
The top-performing product categories for Alibaba’s Singles’ Day campaign were home appliances, consumer electronics, beauty and apparel.
China’s largest e-commerce firm was slipping in the war for consumers’ wallets. Then it reshaped its relationship with merchants.
On the sidelines of Shanghai’s CIIE trade fair, foreign companies brush away fears of a new US-China trade war after Trump’s victory.
The two firms’ high-profile exhibition reflects the vast demand for memory products in China, the world’s second-largest economy.
They joined about 400 other firms at the Intelligent Industry & Information Technology exhibition, part of the 2024 CIIE trade fair in Shanghai.
Alibaba’s international e-commerce platform is kicking off Singles’ Day sales in the US on Friday and runs through November 18.
The lay-offs affected Alibaba metaverse unit Yuanjing’s operations in Shanghai and Hangzhou, according to a report.
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Zhejiang’s new e-commerce service platform expects to serve 15,000 enterprises within the next three years.
Popular merchandise this year include niche products like Jellycat, a British soft toy brand that is gaining popularity among young Chinese.
Goddess of Victory: Nikke and Supercell’s Squad Busters, both distributed in China by Tencent, were approved by the gaming regulator.
Slowing earnings growth is weighing on the company’s plan for a public market debut in London.
The encouraging start to Singles’ Day sales for the country’s largest online retail platforms augurs well for consumer spending on the mainland.
Quanzhantui, a digital marketing tool for merchants, is seen as a key measure of success in monetising Alibaba’s Taobao and Tmall marketplaces.
The rosy prediction comes on the back of a US$142-million promotion that waives delivery fees on certain orders for Taobao users in the city.
The e-commerce giant aims to root out ‘ineffective involution’ after Beijing warned against a race to the bottom in price and quality.
Indonesia’s core issue with Temu is how a large volume of cheap Chinese goods entering the country could impact its manufacturing sector.
Macro MT is a new large language model that supports translation in various cross-border e-commerce scenarios.
The e-commerce rivals’ respective promotions look to benefit from healthier consumer spending on the back of Beijing’s stimulus measures.