Newsletter: How Would the New Chinese E-commerce Law Change Taobao?

Sep 28, 2018, 18:08pm Gabriel Li

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How Would the New Chinese E-commerce Law Change Taobao?
Thanks to the latest version of the e-commerce law, Alibaba<img class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder />‘s core e-commerce platform Taobao may be at risk of facing more lawsuits, losing more sellers and, consequently, a decline of business.

Market Briefings

Meituan-Dianping Listed on HKEX Amidst Great Losses

NIU Submit IPO Prospectus to SEC, Planning to Raise Up to $150 Million

Tencent, Didi, Baidu<img class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder /> among the Seven Companies Approved for Autonomous Car Road Tests in Beijing

Alibaba Sets Up Chipmaking Subsidiary, First Chip to be Released in June 2019

Google Opens AI Exhibition in Shanghai, Inviting the Public to Play with AI

Events

Jack Ma Talks About Manufacturing Woes, Alibaba Cloud, and the DAMO Academy at the Computing Conference 2018

AI Dialogue between CEO of Cheetah Mobile and MIT professor Max Tegmark

Partnerships

Bilibili Announce Content Cooperation with Discovery

Baidu and Intel Launch Joint AI and 5G Innovation Lab to Integrate 5G Networks into AI Applications

New Releases

Xiaomi Launches Two New Editions of Mi 8, Starting at 1399 Yuan

Meizu Unveils Three New Budget Smartphones Starting at $117

Podcast

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival from the TechBuzz China Team! For the episode this week, Ying-Ying and Rui as well as angel investor James Hong will talk about the man behind the super app Meituan-Dianping, Wang Xing.

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Meituan CEO talked about relationships with BAT

The more you try to do, the more enemies you’ll make. Meituan Dianping has learned this lesson through experience. In its early days, the company organized discounted group purchases; later on it became an online movie ticket retailer. Over the years it also tried its hand at takeout, catering and travel services. More recently, Meituan […]

Industry Jun 28April 22, 2018

Kevin Zhou

Can Jack Ma win the looming war between Alibaba and Amazon?

Can battle-tested and awe-inspiring Amazon and Jeff Bezos beat Alibaba and Jack Ma? A “historical” turning point is seemingly at hand: Alibaba could soon top Amazon in market value. On August 24, by the time the stock market closed, Alibaba’s market value was $445.5 billion, only a limit up away from Amazon’s $455.2 billion. Since […]

Industry Aug 30April 22, 2018

Kevin Zhou

Alibaba will establish their own shopping mall—“More Mall”

Jack Ma marked the year 2017 as the first year of Alibaba’s retail business. From 2017, Alibaba business empire expands its territory—involved in the convenience stores with Lingshoutong (零售通), supermarkets with Hema Xiansheng (盒马鲜生) and Bailian (百联), department stores with the privatized Yintai (银泰), and local life service platform with Koubei (口碑). In the whole […]

Industry Sep 06April 22, 2018

Kevin Zhou

Costco Must Overcome Three Challenges to Break into the Chinese Market

In October, 2014, Costco opened up an overseas flagship store on TMall International to give e-commerce in China a shot. On January 23rd, 2016, Costco opened a franchised store in Wuhan to give offline retail a try. On September 8th, 2017, Costco announced the opening of its first store in Shanghai, and confirmed the store […]

Cross-border Sep 19May 7, 2018

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