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Online Retailer JD Follows Alibaba Into The Supermarket Game

JD.com has opened the first of a chain of high-tech supermarkets in Beijing, following arch-foe Alibaba into the world of physical retail. The envisione...

Alibaba Said To Invest $200 Million In Indian Online Grocer

Alibaba Group, China’s e-commerce giant, plans to invest about $200 million in India’s largest online supermarket, Bigbasket, leading a $2...

Alibaba, Auchan Invest In Sun-Art Retail Group

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s $2.9 billion deal to buy a slice of China’s largest hypermart chain pits it against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in the wo...

Alibaba's Rise Creates 10 Billionaires Not Named Jack Ma

Jack Ma, who launched China’s largest e-commerce company two decades ago and rode it to a $47.6 billion fortune, turns out to have created billions o...

Alibaba Generates $25bn Worth Of Sales On 'Singles Day'

Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba has said that it generated approximately $25 billion (€21.5 billion) worth of gross merchandise volume on the annual '...

Alibaba Singles Day Racks Up $1 Billion In Sales In Two Minutes

Alibaba Group kicked off its annual Singles’ Day shopping bonanza, logging $1 billion in gross merchandise volume within the first two minutes. Sh...

Portugal’s Delta Cafés To Sell Coffee On Alibaba

Portuguese coffee company Delta Cafés is planning to sell its products through the Chinese e-commerce platform Alibaba. Announcing the news, the...

Amazon Faces Challenge From Malls And Alibaba In Singapore

As Amazon.com Inc. pushes into Southeast Asia with a new venture into Singapore, the online retailer is facing some tough hurdles. Shopping in air-conditio...