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Alibaba’s logistics arm Cainiao is adding 100,000 temporary workers ahead of an anticipated delivery rush for Singles Day 2022, China’s biggest online shopping festival. Home delivery and “green logistics” are the focus of this year’s Singles Day services for Cainiao, the firm has claimed, as it looks to promote nearly…

Posted inNews Feed Alibaba’s grocery chain Freshippo withdrew its group buying business from Hangzhou and Nanjing on Oct.10, leaving Shanghai as the only city to operate the business for now. The firm’s group-buy unit was considered the most important strategy for Freshippo when it launched in 2021. In April, the…

E-commerce behemoth Amazon.com has stopped work on its “Scout” parcel delivery robots. “During our limited field test for Scout, we worked to create a unique delivery experience, but learned through feedback that there were aspects of the program that weren’t meeting customers’ needs,” an Amazon spokesperson said. “As a result,…

More than 10,000 livestreamers in China’s rural areas participated in Alibaba’s a week-long livestreaming Harvest Festival, driving its local economy with the leverage of the trending technology. The livestreaming event, sponsored by Alibaba‘s philanthropy division and Taobao Live, attracted not only the top influencers from Taobao but also the village…

Lazada Group, the Southeast Asian e-commerce arm of Alibaba Group Holding, expects to see less competition in the once hotly contested region as the market adapts to a slowdown now that the worst of COVID has passed, according to CEO James Dong. How might competitors like the much larger Sea…

The cloud computing unit will commit the funds over three fiscal years, offering incentives like funding, rebates, and go-to-market initiatives...Read More

BusinessPosted U.S. regulators have selected e-commerce majors Alibaba and JD.com among other U.S.-listed Chinese companies for audit inspection starting next month, following a landmark audit deal between Beijing and Washington. Louisa Naks reports. Read More

What Happened: Between August 24 and 30, Alibaba held its seventh Taobao Maker Festival in Guangdong. This year’s theme, The Future Land, focused on technology and emphasized interactivity. Over 1,000 visitors had the opportunity to access thousands of products sold on Alibaba’s e-commerce platforms Taobao and Tmall, while online viewers…

Chinese technology giants including Alibaba have seen slower-to-no-growth as China's economy faces weakness as a result of Beijing's zero-Covid policy. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chinese technology giants are coming off the back of their worst quarter of growth in history as a big slowdown in the world's…

What is “instant retail”? Chinese media are using “instant retail” to describe how brick-and-mortar stores, including independent stores that are not part of a chain or franchise, are harnessing the internet (more specifically, third-party online sales and logistics networks like Meituan 美团, JD.com 京东集团, and Pinduoduo 拼多多) to become suppliers…