Trends come and go in fashion, and change is a fact of life. One thing that seem set to permanently change the face of online fashion is the rise of visual content and the emergence of “search by image” platforms.
In an example of the blending off and online experience, Alibaba is leading a bid to take a department store chain private. Alibaba has but in a bid of $2.6 billion for mall operator InTime as the Chinese ecommerce giant looks to expand onto the high street. Control of Intime will also allow the ecommerce… Read more »
Chinese mobile wallet app Alipay has 450 million users spend online or in stores during 2016, according to new data from the company.
This year the total gross merchandise value of goods sold on Alibaba’s marketplace Tmall on Singles Day was $17.8 billion, compared with $14.3 billion in 2015, predominantly driven by mobile.
The British Museum is working with Alibaba’s online licencing platform Alifish, to target Chinese buyers.
Whittard of Chelsea is selling tea to Chinese consumers via Alibaba’s Tmall Global online marketplace.
Sainsbury’s is set to step up online sales of its groceries in China following a successful trial on Alibaba, doubling the number of its products that are available on Alibaba’s Tmall Global online marketplace.
China’s online shopping holiday ‘Singles’ Day’ has broken all previous records, lead by ecommerce giant Alibaba, with a shopping total alone of $14.3 billion, up 60 per cent on 2014.
China’s leading ecommerce giant Alibaba has bought China’s equivalent of YouTube, online video site Youku Tudou, in a cash deal estimated to be worth $3.7 billion.
China’s second-largest ecommerce company JD.com Inc said it has sent a letter of complaint to a Chinese anti-trust regulator and formally requested an investigation into rival Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
Chinese ecommerce company Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Unilever NV to help the consumer products group reach more Chinese shoppers.
According to reports, the Alibaba Group has added 11 new countries to Tmall Global, its third party retail site.