Today, China’s National Day golden week has become a global golden week. Data estimate that more than six million Chinese travel overseas during this year’s National Day holiday. With the steps of Chinese tourists, many foreign merchants have started to use China’s advanced mobile payment methods. If there is no Alipay or WeChat payment, the…
Gap of Market Value between Alibaba and Amazon is Just 1.3% Narrowing Nearly 100 Billion Dollars in Past Two Months. By September 22nd, Amazon’s market value was $456.5 billion and Alibaba’s was $450.7 billion. Their gap was just 1.3%. Almost two months ago, the gap in market value between these two companies reached $100 billion….
By 21:00 UTC+8 on August 14th, the box office of Wolf Warriors II had reached 649 billion RMB (or 697 million US dollars). Thus, it surpassed Mission Impossible, whose box office ranked 99th in the world, and has listed the top 100 global box offices. It is the first time for Asian movies to list…
The mobile phone selling like hotcakes in Africa isn’t Samsung nor Apple, but Tecno, a Shenzhen-based telecommunications company in China. According to open statistics, the company holds more than 40% of market shares in the 6 major countries of North Africa. Tecno broke into the African market using two mobile innovations: Dual-SIMs and beauty selfie…
JD’s (京东）closing price on June 26 was $43.08, raising their total market value to $61.149 billion. They are quickly approaching to Baidu’s total market value of $61.973 billion at the time, thus threatening the existing group of tech giants BAT: Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent. In comparison, Baidu is lagging behind the other two in terms…
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…
Yesterday OnePlus launched their new flagship device OnePlus 5. Here is an interview almost 3 years ago with OnePlus founder Peter Lau, at that moment their first generation product OnePlus One just made its debut. Recently, the British magazine “Connect” published the following: “What the Moto G did for the budget end of the market,…
