JD Group, JD Finance, Thailand's leading retailer Central Group, and Provident Capital together announced that they would set up two …
China's JD To Set Up Two JVs With Central Group In Thailand
25 September 2017
JD Looks To Drones For Chinese E-commerce Deliveries
01 June 2017
Chinese B2C e-commerce group JD is heading to Shaanxi Province in central China to begin roll-outs and development of unmanned …
Who's Your Dada? Walmart Deepens Role In Chinese Internet Company
24 October 2016
U.S.-based Walmart is making deeper inroads into China's Internet with enhanced investment in one of China's rising e-commerce firms. Walmart …
JD, Toutiao Reach Strategic Online Deal
07 October 2016
Chinese B2C e-commerce website JD.com and social media content platform Toutiao.com announced that the two parties have reached a strategic …
Xiaomi's Barra Joins Startup Board With New China Investment
26 September 2016
Maybe the creeping reality of working for a declining Chinese smartphone company pinched by shrinking margins has propelled one of …
MediaTek's Investment Arm Backs Fintech Growth
02 September 2016
Taiwan-based semiconductor firm MediaTek has made a bet on India's online payments growth with a new US$60 million investment. Mountain …
JD.com Signs Smartphone Sales Agreement With Letv.com
17 April 2016
JD and Letv signed a strategic cooperation agreement under which JD.com aims to sell six million Letv smartphones, including three …
Suning's Profit And Development Portends O2O Domination
18 March 2016
China's Suning Commerce Group's operating revenue increased by 24.56% year-on-year to CNY135.676 billion; its operating profit increased by 53.57%; and …
Who Are Apple Pay's Partners In China?
18 February 2016
Today marks the beginning of Apple Pay's entry into China, a country that Steve Jobs never visited as company chief …
What Is Letv Planning For India?
25 January 2016
Chinese Internet video provider Letv announced its entry into the Indian market and the company will start selling its Le …
Chinese E-Commerce Eyes Stability During Year's Biggest Shopping Day
11 November 2015
In the West, today is the remembrance of the end of World War One. But in China, November 11 is Singles' Day and the entire country has prepared for an online sales onslaught. In 2014, Alibaba posted more than USD9 billion in sales on China's Singles' Day. And this year rivals JD.com and Suning hope […]
China's Dianping.com Expands Into Singapore
27 October 2015
Chinese classified information site Dianping.com has inked a strategic deal with Singapore Tourism Board to provide various services to Chinese tourists visiting Singapore. The two parties will combine resources to cover dining, hotel, traveling, sightseeing, shopping and entertainment. Dianping.com will integrate information from tens of thousands of Singapore vendors, providing tickets of over 60 popular […]
Tmall.com Teams With Oil Giant For Mobile Payments
01 September 2015
Chinese B2C e-commerce platform Tmall.com and China National Petroleum Corporation's Hunan branch will integrate their resources to launch a mobile payment service model. Tmall.com, which is a subsidiary of Alibaba, said that the company will integrate Alibaba's ecosphere to help CNPC Hunan implement an "Internet Plus" transformation that includes an online store, mobile payment, big […]
Tmall.com Teams With Oil Giant For Mobile Payments
01 September 2015
Chinese B2C e-commerce platform Tmall.com and China National Petroleum Corporation's Hunan branch will integrate their resources to launch a mobile payment service model. Tmall.com, which is a subsidiary of Alibaba, said that the company will integrate Alibaba's ecosphere to help CNPC Hunan implement an "Internet Plus" transformation that includes an online store, mobile payment, big […]
Alibaba's Tmall Global Launches Duty Free Shopping
30 July 2015
Tmall Global, the international branch of Alibaba's Tmall.com, has reached an exclusive strategic deal with South Korea's largest duty free store group the Shilla Duty Free and Thailand's largest duty free store group King Power to commence a global duty free project in China. According to Liu Peng, general manager of Tmall Global, this is […]
Chinese E-commerce Group Rumored To Buy 25% Stake In Indian Phone Maker
05 July 2015
Alibaba Group may soon enter into an agreement with Micromax, a mobile phone manufacturer in India, to purchase a 25% stake in the latter for USD700 million. According to reports in Indian local media, this will become the first time for Alibaba to buy Indian phone maker shares as a foreign investor if the deal […]
D.Phone Forms Mobile Phone Retail Partnership With Letv
01 June 2015
Letv and D.Phone announced a deal for D.Phone to open Letv experience zones in its over 4,000 outlets across China. Those experience zones will become pre-sales and post-sales service sites of Letv products, which are mainly super phone and super TV products. Financial terms of the arrangement were not released. Letv's LePar sales vice president […]
Wal-Mart Inks Alipay Deal For Chinese Retail Payments
18 May 2015
American retailer Wal-Mart has signed a deal with online payments provider Alipay to help consumers pay for goods in China. Wal-Mart will begin the cooperation within 25 of its outlets in Shenzhen. Based on the market response in this southern Chinese city, Wal-Mart plans to gradually expand the coverage of this new service throughout mainland […]
Xiaomi Drops Exclusive Partnership With Flipkart In India
14 April 2015
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi announced that the company has terminated its exclusive cooperation with Flipkart, a leading e-commerce provider in India, and signed agreements instead with Amazon and Snapdeal for the sales of smartphones in India. Xiaomi started an exclusive cooperation with Flipkart for the sale of its smartphones when the company entered the Indian […]
Xiaomi Will Open 100 Experience Stores In India In 2015
18 March 2015
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi plans to open 100 experience stores in India in 2015. According to Xiaomi, those experience stores will not sell any products. Instead, they will become channels for Indian consumers to experience Xiaomi products. Xiaomi entered the Indian market in July 2014 and its products are mainly sold via the local e-commerce […]