Taobao Archives - Inside Retail Asia

Alibaba’s Tmall has launched a dedicated gateway for customers to discover new products through the Taobao mobile app.

Local services – the use of online platforms to link consumers with offline lifestyle services and on-demand delivery – are booming in China.

Alibaba Group sales soared 41 per cent in the December quarter as its customer based neared 700 million.

E-commerce giant Alibaba has developed new technology to make it possible for blind and partially sighted people to shop online.

A new Taobao Selection store in Kuala Lumpur’s Viva Home Shopping Mall is the first such outlet in Southeast Asia.

Chinese tech firm LeEco has put a Beijing shopping centre up for auction on Chinese e-commerce platform Taobao.

South Koreans are spending more at Chinese online stores, according to credit-card spending data.

Alibaba has invested an undisclosed figure in Chinese garment-sharing platform YCloset.

Alibaba Group revenue soared 61 per cent in the second quarter as the company added 24 million active annual consumers.

Starbucks China and Alibaba have announced an alliance that stretches way beyond the latter’s online delivery platform Ele.me.

Ele.me aims to grab a majority share of China’s food-delivery market in the near future, CEO Wang Lai said this week.

Guess and Alibaba Group bring AI to the fashion world in a store of the future at Hong Kong.