Chinese retail giant Alibaba has once broken its record for shopping sales event Singles Day, making a gargantuan 213 billion yuan (£24bn) in just 24 hours, but demand for big-ticket items fell due to China-US trade tensions.
UK software and translation company SDL has formed a strategic partnership with Alibaba Cloud to launch a co-developed solution designed to help global brands launch and grow their digital business across the China and Asia markets.
Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba has joined forces with a state fund along with telecom company MegaFon and internet firm Mail.Ru Group as part of a new ecommerce venture in Russia.
Ad tech firm Adform has expanded its presence in China, Australia, and Dubai, with additional regional growth planned in the near future.
Chinese search giant Baidu has issued a warning to Google, claiming to be the new search trendsetter, following the US-firms plans to re-enter the China with a ‘censored’ search engine.
China’s Huawei and ZTE have been banned from providing 5G technology equipment to Australia, citing national security concerns.
Google is reportedly working on a censored version of its search engine in a bid to get round its ban in China.
Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) and Zhejiang Radio & TV Group (ZRTG) have agreed to strengthen their three-year strategic partnership, deepening their commitment to upgrading the content and distribution channels of both platforms, breaking the collaborative model between TV network and internet enterprise.
There’s a “privacy paradox” surrounding data collection for profit, where data needs to be used to enrich people’s experiences without betraying their trust, according to the annual report from digital guru Mary Meeker.
60% of Chinese consumers intend to shop more via cross-border ecommerce despite concern by 80% of overseas retailers that their online sales capabilities aren’t adequate to succeed in the country, new research reveals.
Global smartphone demand fell 2% to 347 million units in the first quarter of 2018, but average sales price grew 21% year-on-year leading to strong revenue growth, according to new research.
Brands are pursuing the ‘Chinese Dream’, growing total brand value by a record 23% to $683.9 billion in the WPP 2018 BrandZ™ Top 100 Most Valuable Chinese Brands ranking.
WeChat has hit one billion monthly users for the first time, as the Chinese messaging app starts to rival WhatsApp.
The top 5 Chinese global brands in 2018 include Lenovo, Huawei, Alibaba, Xiaomi and Air China, as the government urges its companies to ‘go global’, according to new research.
Which countries would lose the most money if someone actually broke the internet? This new report from Website Builder Expert (WBE) finds that China would suffer the most.
Internet and mobile mediums are to account for nearly all (94%) of all global adspend in the next three years, according to new research.
L’Oréal has chosen Emarsys to support its digital transformation strategy by providing highly personalised and automated marketing to consumers in Hong Kong.
Alibaba is reportedly in talks to pick up a significant stake in online grocer BigBasket in India, as the Chinese online retail giant looks to rival Amazon’s recent expansion into fresh food with its WholeFoods acquisition.
The mobile tipping point is happening among 16-24s globally; the point in which internet users will spend longer on their mobile than all other devices combined, according to new research.
