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Alibaba’s Hema Jishi community group-buying mini program has gone live on WeChat, in a rare move to leverage its rival Tencent’s ecosystem. There is no standalone app for the service and the mini program is not yet available for Beijing residents, but it is live elsewhere, like in Zhengzhou, the capital…

Alibaba's booth at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference on August 30, 2019 in Shanghai. (Image credit: TechNode/Shi Jiayi) Alibaba has launched a mini app for its community group buy platform on rival Tencent’s instant messaging platform WeChat, Chinese media noticed on Friday. The mini program, Hema Market (our translation), was…

One of the more slogging UFC cards in recent memory. A couple cool finishes early on unfortunately failed to set the tone for action, and every fight after the first three went to a decision. Fortunately, Robert Whittaker put a bow on the whole night with a stellar performance over…

Ant Group is exploring options for founder Jack Ma to divest his stake in the financial technology giant and give up control, as meetings with Chinese regulators signaled to the company that the move could help draw a line under Beijing's scrutiny of its business, according to a source familiar…

Ant Group is exploring options for founder Jack Ma to divest his stake in the financial technology giant and give up control, as meetings with Chinese regulators signalled to the company that the move could help draw a line under Beijing’s scrutiny of its business, according to a source familiar…

Tencent’s ultra-modern headquarters loom over Shenzhen’s Nanshan District. (Image credit: TechNode/Jiayi Shi) Tencent, Didi Chuxing, and Alibaba’s grocery unit joined Chinese tech peers in promising on Thursday to uphold rules against anticompetitive behavior amid a sweeping crackdown across the sector that began with e-commerce giant Alibaba. Why it matters: In…

A Tmall advertisement promotes the brand in a Shanghai mall on March 22, 2019. (Image credit: TechNode/Cassidy McDonald) E-commerce platform Tmall said that it will change its store-opening policies in an effort to lower merchant costs, just days after Chinese regulators penalized parent company Alibaba for anticompetitive behavior. Why it…

SINGAPORE, Apr 15, 2021 - (ACN Newswire) - Daraz, the leading e-commerce platform in South Asia announced its commitment to provide additional support to local entrepreneurs and enhance the selling experience on the platform over the coming months. In a recent online conference, Daraz Group CEO, Bjarke Mikkelsen, announced key…

A woman holds a phone with the Alibaba app on screen. (Image credit: Bigstock/nopparat.k) China's months-long investigation of Alibaba for anti-competitive practices concluded on Saturday as the e-commerce heavyweight was slapped with a record RMB 18.2 billion ($2.8 billion) fine for violating the Anti-Monopoly Law for a variety practices, most…

China's State Administration for Market Regulation has given all the internet firms a period of one month to correct their malpractices.Read More