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E-commerce is the activity of buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. 

E-Commerce

Out of 200 million search inquiries on Baidu each day, more than 30 million are related to e-commerce.

Baidu teams up with Amazon to expand e-commerce business | KrASIA

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ByteDance or Beijing ByteDance Technology Co Ltd. is a Chinese Internet technology company operating several machine learning-enabled content platforms, headquartered in Beijing. It was founded by Zhang Yiming in 2012. ByteDance's core product, Toutiao, is a popular content platform in China.

Bytedance

Douyin

Live Streaming

ByteDance's e-commerce unit reportedly prefers a standalone shopping site similar to Tmall.

Despite a successful Singles' Day, ByteDance faces internal divide over e-commerce strategy | KrASIA

Despite a successful Singles&#8217; Day, ByteDance faces internal divide over e-commerce strategy

Pinduoduo is an e-commerce platform allowing users to participate in group buying deals. It was founded by Colin Huang as Shanghai Dream Information Technology Co., Ltd. in September 2015.

Pinduoduo

Pinduoduo's share price increased by 20.41% to a record USD 134.21 in Thursday trading following its third-quarter earnings announcement.

Pinduoduo stock soars while its user base closes in on Alibaba | KrASIA

Pinduoduo stock soars while its user base closes in on Alibaba

Retail

JD.com recorded USD 40.9 billion in GMV, a 34.6% increase from last year.

Alibaba generates USD 74.1 billion on Singles' Day despite COVID-19 | KrASIA

Alibaba generates USD 74.1 billion on Singles&#8217; Day despite COVID-19

Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese multinational conglomerate specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet and technology. 

Alibaba

The penetration rate of livestreaming e-commerce in China was 4.1% in 2019 and is expected to reach 8.6% by the end of 2020 and 14.3% by 2021.

Alibaba expects livestreaming e-commerce penetration rate to reach 30% | KrASIA

Alibaba expects livestreaming e-commerce penetration rate to reach 30%

Taobao

First sales data shows that JD.com is already closing in on its 2019 record.

Alibaba sales growth slows in first 10 days of shopping festival | KrASIA

Alibaba sales growth slows in first 10 days of shopping festival

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

Taobao and Tmall users can enjoy rebates worth up to USD 1,500 after buying a car from the Chinese automaker.

Alibaba teams up with SAIC Motor to boost car sales amid industry recovery | KrASIA

Alibaba teams up with SAIC Motor to boost car sales amid industry recovery

In computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals.

Autonomous Vehicles is about self-driving. A self-driving car is also known as a robot car, autonomous car, or driverless car, is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving with little or no human input.

Autonomous Vehicles

The company is now valued above USD 5.3 billion.

Pony.ai closes USD 267 million Series C to speed up autonomous driving | KrASIA

Pony.ai closes USD 267 million Series C to speed up autonomous driving

Alibaba’s famous shopping festival gives customers a longer window to capitalize on discounts this year.