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Lazada expands Alibaba's Taobao marketplace in SE Asia
Reuters, Published on 25/09/2017
» SINGAPORE: Online retailer Lazada Group said it will sell select items from Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's Taobao marketplace in three more countries in Southeast Asia, expanding the partnership between the two e-commerce firms.
JD.com, Central in talks for e-commerce venture
Reuters, Published on 23/08/2017
» China's JD.com Inc is in advanced talks with Central Group to launch an e-commerce joint venture in Thailand with a planned total investment of $500 million (16.7 billion baht), people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
In rough terrain, Payless emerges as rare bankruptcy survivor
Business, Reuters, Published on 11/08/2017
» CHICAGO: Payless ShoeSource Inc is set to emerge from bankruptcy this week, one of the largest retail chains to do so, and is banking on a strategy focused primarily on bricks-and-mortar sales at a time when e-commerce is casting an ever-growing footprint on retail sales.
Bezos of Amazon: World's richest person
Reuters, Published on 28/07/2017
» Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Jeff Bezos has unseated fellow tech billionaire Bill Gates as the richest person in the world, profiting from the e-commerce company's meteoric stock rise to reach a fortune of $90.6 billion, Forbes reported.
Amazon launches Prime Now in Singapore
Reuters, Published on 27/07/2017
» SINGAPORE -- Amazon.com Inc launched its two-hour delivery service in Singapore on Thursday, marking the e-commerce giant's push into populous Southeast Asia and its first head-on battle with its Chinese rival, Alibaba Group Holding.
Alibaba launches sales channels in Malaysia, Singapore
Reuters, Published on 12/06/2017
» BEIJING - Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd on Monday said it is launching new sales channels in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan as China's deep-pocketed e-commerce firms vie for new users in the region.
Canada beats the US in pork sales to China
Business, Reuters, Published on 06/06/2017
» WINNIPEG/CHICAGO/BEIJING: Canada has overtaken the United States as the top North American supplier of pork to China as farmers and meat packers in both nations battle for lucrative shares of the biggest global market.
Can't beat them, join them
Business, Reuters, Published on 30/05/2017
» Food and drink megabrands are seeing their sales chewed away by smaller, nimbler, cooler rivals. They can't beat them -- so now they're joining them.
China's WeChat takes on Apple, Android with mini-apps
Reuters, Published on 19/05/2017
» HONG KONG -- In a cluster of refurbished Mao-era industrial buildings in Guangzhou, developers at China's top messaging app, WeChat, are redesigning key parts of its product to spread its tentacles to just about every aspect of Chinese life.
Australian retailers brace for arrival of Amazon
Business, Reuters, Published on 21/04/2017
» SYDNEY/San Francisco: Global e-commerce juggernaut Amazon.com Inc said yesterday that it would open its online shopfront service in Australia, ending rumours about its plans and increasing the pressure on the domestic retail sector to catch up with the digital economy.