Alibaba's new 'instant commerce' portal passes 40 million daily ordersChinese ecommerce giant Alibaba announced that its new Taobao Instant Commerce portal has surpassed 40 million daily orders within a month ...
26 May, 2025, 02.37 PM IST
Chinese ecommerce giant JD. com sales rise after costly food delivery pushJD.com recorded a jump in first-quarter revenue Tuesday, as the Chinese e-commerce giant makes a costly push to establish itself in the cou...
13 May, 2025, 06.22 PM IST
China asks food delivery giants to compete fairlyChinese authorities met with major food delivery firms JD.com, Meituan, and Ele.me to address competition issues. Regulators urged adherenc...
13 May, 2025, 05.47 PM IST
Chinese ecommerce giants make expensive bets on fast deliveriesThe new turf war focused on speed is coming at a high cost in the short term as the ecommerce giants look to entice consumers with hefty di...
13 May, 2025, 10.41 AM IST
Alibaba, RedNote in tie-up as China ecommerce competition intensifiesThe broadening of the strategic partnership between Alibaba and RedNote comes as China's ecommerce giants vie for market share on multiple ...
07 May, 2025, 03.22 PM IST
Can China fight deflation and Trump's tariffs at the same time?China's economy faces deflationary pressures, impacting workers' financial security as low prices cut into business profits and wages. A tr...
17 Apr, 2025, 09.06 PM 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 urges platform companies to protect rights of gig workersThe 11 companies that took part included take-out delivery platforms Meituan, ele.me and ride-hailing firm Didi Global, the Ministry of Hum...
13 Sep, 2022, 05.56 PM IST
China regulators should act further to free up apps' access to rivals' links: State paperAccording to the Economic Information Daily, this showed companies could not be relied on to carry out "self rectification", and government...
19 Oct, 2021, 11.30 AM IST
Alibaba apps start offering WeChat Pay option after government ordersEarlier this month, the ministry of industry and information technology said it had asked internet companies to end a long-standing practic...
28 Sep, 2021, 11.18 AM IST
China tells delivery, ride-hailing firms to better protect workersRegulators in China have come down hard on its biggest technology firms this year, criticising them for policies that exploit workers and i...
10 Sep, 2021, 04.15 PM IST
Alibaba shows signs of strain as China's economy shuddersThe company founded by billionaire Jack Ma has been pivotal over the past decade in helping create a $1 trillion-plus Chinese online shoppi...
29 Jan, 2019, 02.32 PM IST
Amazon India considers investment in online food delivery startup SwiggyFounded by Sriharsha Majety, CEO, along with Rahul Jaimini and Nandan Reddy, Swiggy is regarded as one of stronger players in a market whic...
07 Sep, 2016, 04.39 PM IST
TinyOwl mops up rs 100 crore from Matrix Partners India and existing investors Sequoia Capital, Nexus Venture PartnersTinyOwl’s co-founders are IIT-Bombay graduates Harshvardhan Mandad, Gaurav Choudhary, Saurabh Goyal, Shikhar Paliwal and Tanuj Khandelwal.
27 Feb, 2015, 05.52 AM IST