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Alibaba’s Lazada posts first monthly profit amid intense competition in Southeast Asia

Lazada, the Southeast Asian online shopping platform of Alibaba Group Holding, has achieved a monthly profit for the first time,…

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Tencent super app WeChat strikes fine balance as everyday tool and public-service platform

Super app WeChat, operated by video gaming and social media giant Tencent Holdings, continues to strike a delicate balancing act…

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TikTok, Amazon collaborate on online shopping, heating up competition with Shein, Temu

“We’re excited to collaborate with Amazon to offer a seamless and fun shopping experience,” TikTok wrote in a post on…

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Alibaba launches maths-specific AI models said to outperform LLMs from OpenAI, Google

“Over the past year, we have dedicated significant efforts to researching and enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models,…

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E-commerce tycoon Colin Huang tops China’s rich list

E-commerce tycoon Colin Huang has become China’s richest man, an index showed Friday, capping an ascent for the former Google…

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Paris Olympics: online sales of tennis, other sporting goods surge as Chinese celebrate gold haul

Alibaba Group Holding’s online shopping platforms have experienced a surge in interest and sales of sporting goods, as Chinese consumers…

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China’s live-streamers ready for their close-up as official jobs list updated

Live-streamers and test drivers of smart cars have been added to a list of officially recognised professions in China, a…

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Alibaba to deploy AI-powered sourcing engine to boost online trade for global merchants

The international arm of Alibaba Group Holding is ramping up the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) by deploying an…

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Alibaba’s Taobao and ByteDance’s Douyin seek e-commerce price war detente with new policies

Two of China’s leading e-commerce platform operators, Alibaba Group Holding and TikTok owner ByteDance, have started to adjust their focus…

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China’s largest e-cigarette brand Relx to study health effects of vaping amid regulatory crackdowns

The company unveiled a new bioscience laboratory on Thursday to study the health effects of vaping. The lab in Shenzhen…

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