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Alibaba‘s e-commerce platform Taobao will update its version for elderly people ahead of Tmall Double 11, the annual Shopping Festival will kick off pre-sales at 8 p.m. on October 24. The exclusive human customer services will be available for Taobao users when they switch to the updated elderly mode, helping…

CIW / Retail & E-commerce / Alibaba to shorten presale period of this year’s Double 11 festival October 13, 2022 By CIW Team This year, Alibaba’s Tmall Double 11 pre-sale will start at 8:00 p.m. on October 24. Compared with the pre-sale started on October 20 or 21 in previous…

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…

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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…