The partnership heats up payments competition between Tencent and e-commerce giant Alibaba in the Japanese market Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings and Japanese messaging app operator Line are joining hands to provide payment services in Japan,...
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What is Tik Tok? Tik Tok is a Chinese short-form video app has been gaining global momentum. It’s been downloaded about 80 million times in the United States, and nearly 800 million times worldwide, according to...
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Alibaba has set a new high water mark for a single day of sales. The 11.11 Global Shopping Festival, held on Singles' Day, smashed previous records this year with sales reaching RMB 213.5 billion (USD...
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Forget Black Friday. China's Singles Day has financially usurped the West's consumerist orgy with a retail festival all its own. Could its next step to be global retail domination? This year's Singles Day, an online discount...
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WeChat, the go-to place for brands and travel destinations to connect with Chinese consumers, may not be as mighty as it once was, and its dominance in China’s mobile space has been declining, recent data...
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Alibaba and JD.com remain prominent, but several other platforms are making big inroads into the world’s biggest ecommerce market. Drapers investigates China’s emerging online leaders. For fashion retailers planning to enter China, two names immediately spring...
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