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01.25.18Online Sales of Illegal Opioids from China Surge in U.S.
New York Times
Nearly $800 million worth of fentanyl pills were illegally sold to online customers in the United States over two years by Chinese distributors who took advantage of internet anonymity and an explosive growth in e-commerce, according to a Senate...
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11.17.17China Faces Waste Hangover after Singles’ Day Buying Binge
Reuters
China’s Singles’ Day online discount sales bonanza on Saturday saw bargain-hungry buyers spend over $38 billion, flooding the postal and courier businesses with around 331 million packages - and leaving an estimated 160,000 tonnes of packaging waste.
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10.06.17It's Not Just Amazon: Chinese Tech Giants Are Selling Groceries Too
CNN
Amazon (AMZN, Tech30)'s move to swallow Whole Foods for $13.7 billion grabbed attention in the U.S., and the internet giant has also been dabbling in cashier-less grocery stores. But experts say China is already ahead of the curve.
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07.07.17Chinese Umbrella-Sharing Firm Remains Upbeat Despite Losing Most of Its 300,000 Brollies
South China Morning Post
Just weeks after making 300,000 brollies available to the public via a rental scheme, Sharing E Umbrella announced that most of them had gone missing, news website The Paper reported on Thursday.
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06.08.17Alibaba Predicts Strong Sales in a Sign of Strength from China
New York Times
The Alibaba Group signaled on Thursday that for all the global worries about China’s rising debt and bloated state industries, its economy still enjoys a strong pillar of support: online shoppers.
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11.11.16Swinging Singles' Day: Alibaba Holiday Drives Shoppers in China
Wall Street Journal
China’s online-retail giant once again broke its sales record on the shopping day it helped create
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02.05.16In ‘Communist’ China, Alibaba is Training People to Shop Online
Wired
One strategy Alibaba has for trying to stem the economic slowdown is to make sure as many of China’s 1.3 billion people as possible can shop online.
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11.12.15
Watch Frank Underwood Advertise China’s Black Friday
On November 11, at the stroke of midnight Beijing time, millions of Chinese sitting behind their computers or cradling their mobile phones began purchasing cell phones, handbags, and clothing at cutthroat prices. By the end of November 11, analysts...
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08.04.15Alibaba Names Former Goldman Sachs Executive as President
New York Times
Alibaba on Tuesday named J. Michael Evans, who already serves on its board, as its president.
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07.16.15Amazon Prime sale--a Chinese import?
USA Today
Prime Day is "Amazon's effort to try and capture the magic that Alibaba has captured with its November 11 Singles' Day promotion," said Kevin Carter, founder of EMQQ
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01.16.15Alibaba Is Planning a Big Move to Win U.S. Business
Business Insider
Anchored by Alipay, the dominant Chinese electronic payments system that works closely with Alibaba and is controlled by its executives, the world's largest Internet retailer is using the calling card of China's consumers to attract U.S...
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12.30.14
Seeing China in 2014
In 2014, ChinaFile published great original work in photography. As always, we worked to look beyond stereotypical images of the country to find nuanced representations of the new and ChinaFile contributors’ commentary on it. Still, many of our...
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12.14.14China’s Baidu Set to Partner with Uber and Reportedly Invest up to $600M
TechCrunch
If Baidu does put money into Uber, it will be a significant expansion of its international portfolio of products and investments. Baidu has focused on emerging markets, including Southeast Asia, Egypt and Brazil, where it recently acquired e-...
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12.08.14Chinese Online Giants Eating Into U.S. Dominance of Digital Media
Hollywood Reporter
China now accounts for two of the six companies with the highest online media revenues and four of the 10 fastest-growing, according to a report from the global research and advisory company Strategy Analytics.
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07.08.14County-Level E-Commerce: Next Driver of China’s Online Shopping
Huxiu
From 2003 to 2013, the number of county-level e-commerce merchants grew from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, and to millions.
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04.30.13Alibaba Joins China In Antipiracy Fight
Wall Street Journal
Alibaba announced its partnership with five agencies at a news conference Tuesday. On the same day, Xinhua reported that China’s top legislature is considering amending the country’s consumer-rights law to protect online shoppers.