China’s two ecommerce giants, Alibaba and Tencent, are collaborating for the first time, which will see Alibaba’s bargain online shopping platform Taobao Deals offered as a mini-program on Tencent’s multipurpose super app WeChat A move prompted by the China’s anti-trust regulators The collaboration means that users of Taobao Deals can now pay via WeChat Pay. Alibaba has long barred the u...

Pinduoduo, China’s latest tech behemoth, has become the world’s largest ecommerce platform by user numbers, surpassing Alibaba. It has set its next goal to be " the world’s largest agriculture and grocery platform ". Here is what you need to know about the company. Pinduoduo surpasses Alibaba and JD.com in user numbers The Nasdaq-listed company said it had 788.4 million annual active buye...

JD.com announced on 22 March that it is investing US$800m in Dada Neux, the mother company of on-demand grocery delivery platform JD Daojia and on-demand delivery platform Dada Now. JD.com will effectively take control of delivery platform Dada Once the deal goes through, JD.com will own 51% of Dada. JD merged its online-to-offline unit, JD Daojia, with Dada in 2016. Dada-JD Daojia then ...