'America would never...': China mall hosts ‘secretly eat in class’ contest and 2,000 adults showed upA Chinese shopping mall hosted a unique competition where over 2,000 participants raced to eat a bowl of rice soup in a mock classroom sett...
28 May, 2026, 02.55 PM IST
Trump wants to stop states from regulating AI. This Utah Republican isn't listeningStates are grappling with artificial intelligence regulation as the federal government resists. Lawmakers are proposing new rules for AI, f...
20 Apr, 2026, 08.35 AM IST
CTI urges Delhi govt to host shopping festivals on lines of Dubai, ChinaThe Chamber of Trade and Industry has requested the Delhi government to organize large shopping festivals and business fairs, similar to th...
02 Aug, 2025, 06.01 PM IST
Singles Day 2024: How it began at China’s Nanjing University on 11.11. Why it's celebrated? Here's allSingles Day, celebrated on November 11, has evolved from a Chinese holiday for singles into a global shopping extravaganza. Driven by e-com...
11 Nov, 2024, 09.07 AM IST
China's Singles Day sales festival wraps up with ecommerce giants reporting sales growthOriginally a 24-hour online shopping event held on Nov. 11 each year in China, the 'Singles Day' festival - a nod to the digits in the date...
12 Nov, 2023, 08.17 AM IST
Price wars during Chinese shopping fest expose consumer woesThis year's festival is being more closely watched than ever as a gauge of consumer confidence as China flirts with deflation and has ident...
10 Nov, 2023, 05.23 PM IST
Alibaba banks on aggressive Singles Day pricing to recoup sales mojoWhile Alibaba has announced that it will offer 80 million products at their lowest prices this year during Singles Day, which began in late...
31 Oct, 2023, 04.44 PM 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
China's e-commerce extravaganza loses shine as consumption declinesChina's midyear shopping festival, 618, is seeing lower consumer spending as customers face stagnant incomes and a tepid economy due to yea...
20 Jun, 2023, 02.51 PM IST
China's JD.com posts slowest growth ever in '618' shopping eventCHINA-CONSUMPTION-China's JD.com posts slowest growth ever in '618' shopping event
19 Jun, 2022, 05.47 PM IST
Alibaba spotlights social welfare in last hours of toned-down Singles' Day shopping festThe e-commerce giant has this year toned down the marketing hype amid ongoing regulatory tightening from Chinese authorities, saying its fo...
11 Nov, 2021, 10.52 PM IST
Alibaba beats quarterly revenue estimates on online boomThe results come as China clamps down on founder Jack Ma's sprawling business empire, having forced the suspension of a blockbuster $37 bil...
02 Feb, 2021, 05.55 PM IST
Alibaba records billions in sales as China's first post-virus Singles' Day kicks offThis year's shopping extravaganza comes a week after Alibaba lost almost $76 billion of its market value following China's suspension of th...
11 Nov, 2020, 10.58 AM IST
Alibaba Singles’ Day sales touch $1 billion in 1 minute, $16.3 billion in less than 90 minutesAlibaba is all set to break its last year record of Singles’ Day sales as it clocked more than half of what it did last year in less than 9...
11 Nov, 2019, 09.14 AM IST
Alibaba's Singles' Day sales hits new high, $24.3 billion by mid-dayThe Alibaba Group's various shopping platforms broke the 10 billion-yuan (USD 1.44 billion) sales threshold within the first two minutes an...
11 Nov, 2018, 05.11 PM IST
Single's Day sales smash records in China with USD 45 billionAlibaba Group, during its Double 11 (also called 11.11 sale), surpassed its last year's "Single's Day" sales of USD 18 billion, netting abo...
12 Nov, 2017, 03.06 PM IST
LeEco crosses Rs 100 crore mark in its first ever EPIC 919 sale in IndiaThe online shopping festival which started on September 19 had to be extended by 24 hours due to unprecedented user demand, the company sai...
21 Sep, 2016, 07.52 PM IST