Chinese ecommerce giants face delicate balance between discounts, profitAlibaba's earnings reports are crucial indicators for China's consumer sentiment, influenced by competition from Pinduoduo and Douyin. The ...
13 May, 2024, 07.31 AM IST
Alibaba promises major discounts ahead of China's 'Singles Day' shopping eventAlibaba Group will be offering significant discounts for its annual Singles Day shopping event, indicating low consumer confidence in China...
23 Oct, 2023, 09.20 AM IST
How Alibaba's six main new business units stack upAlibaba Group Holding's former CEO, Daniel Zhang, has unexpectedly left the company's cloud computing unit, raising concerns about its spin...
11 Sep, 2023, 03.45 PM IST
How Chinese tech giant Alibaba's six new business units stack upThe e-commerce giant announced in March it will split into six business units, each with its own CEO and board of directors, and adopt a ho...
20 Jun, 2023, 11.30 AM IST
How Alibaba's six new business units stack upAlibaba has long relied on e-commerce as its core business, with smaller divisions in sectors such as cloud computing and entertainment. Th...
28 Mar, 2023, 11.28 PM IST
After the split, here's how Alibaba's six new business units stack upThe company's CEO Daniel Zhang said the business units will each be free to pursue funding and IPOs independently, which points to a possib...
28 Mar, 2023, 06.07 PM IST
China's Alibaba sets $100 billion target for Southeast Asian e-commerce divisionChinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has set a target for gross merchandise volume of $100 billion in gross merchandise volume (GMV), the total...
17 Dec, 2021, 12.43 PM IST
How Alibaba turns wealthy shopaholics into a marketing squadRolled out about two years ago, APASS has helped Alibaba persuade the well-heeled shoppers trolling its Tmall and Taobao shopping emporiums...
19 Nov, 2016, 01.16 AM IST
Alibaba staff from China working on Paytm ‘integration’Alibaba said it was natural for the company to work closely with partner Paytm, even as its spokesperson dismissed the integration news.
03 Nov, 2016, 02.58 PM IST
Future’s Paytm tie-up to help it ride with AlibabaAlibaba plans to debut its biz-to-consumer site Tmall in India. One of the options being considered is morphing the Paytm marketplace into ...
12 Aug, 2016, 11.54 AM IST
Are you Alibaba literate? 5 things to know about the companyThe company went public in 2014, raising $25 billion, more than Facebook, in the largest offering in the history of the New York Stock Exch...
28 May, 2016, 02.25 AM IST
Alibaba fights fake university, shopping mallsChina's e-commerce giant Alibaba said fake universities and shopping malls had illegally used the name of its online shopping sites.
07 Apr, 2016, 09.30 PM IST
Flipkart seeks to cut dependence on WS Retail to focus on marketplace modelWS Retail currently acts as a sort of clearing house for most of the goods sold on Flipkart, sourcing the bulk of the merchandise from vend...
19 Mar, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
More & more e-tail ventures: Dedicated e-store to help Microsoft harness India marketLast year, Microsoft launched an online flagship store on Chinese marketplace TMall. The company did not deny or confirm the development.
15 Oct, 2014, 07.11 AM IST
Here's why Alibaba is becoming a huge threat to Amazon and eBayE-commerce giant Alibaba set for IPO next month; fast growth and entry to US market poses threat to big online players like Amazon and eBay.
30 Aug, 2014, 03.27 PM IST
China Singles Day online shoppers spend almost $ 6 billionThe most popular items sold on Singles' Day included underwear, diapers, baby milk formula, mobile phones, cars, diamond rings and home app...
12 Nov, 2013, 04.28 PM IST
- Rise & Rise of China’s Internet Billionaires
Chinese group Alibaba's moves to take its flagship ecommerce site alibaba.com private by offering minority investors an eyepopping premium.
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