1. Alibaba and Suning’s three-year plan: incubate 10 billion brands
Alibaba and Suning Cloud Commerce announced that it will open user resources, traffic resources, and big data resources to partners, form a "King Alliance" with brand giants, and jointly launch the "Ten Billion Intelligent Manufacturing Plan" around the brand: within three years, Alibaba and Suning will join forces with the "King Alliance" to incubate multiple brands with a scale of 10 billion, including Midea, Haier, Samsung, Hisense, Huawei, Xiaomi, etc., with annual sales reaching 50 billion yuan within three years; incubate 5 billion brands such as Lenovo, Siemens, Sony, Skyworth, and Canon, with annual sales reaching 20 billion yuan within three years.
2. It is rumored that Google plans to sell Lenovo Group shares to cash out up to US$221 million.
According to foreign media reports, Google is selling a total of 371 million shares of Lenovo shares, with a price range of between HK$4.56 and HK$4.62 per share, a maximum discount of 4% compared to the latest trading day. In January 2014, Lenovo Group announced the acquisition of Motorola Mobile from Google for US$2.9 billion, of which $1.41 billion was paid when the acquisition was completed, including $660 million in cash, $750 million in Lenovo common shares, and the remaining $1.5 billion was paid in three-year promissory notes.
3. Didi will also provide customized services for pregnant women in the future.
The "Baby Plan" that Didi announced more than a month ago was officially launched yesterday. The plan is a reservation travel service for picking up children to and from school. The first batch will be opened for testing in Beijing. This is the specific business direction of Didi entering the scheduled appointment travel service. In the future, it will also provide pick-up services for white-collar workers, pregnant women, etc.
4. Following the path of creating reputation, Alipay is about to sweep the wholesale market again.
Today, an industry insider revealed that Alipay has been involved in B2B wholesale business. Open the homepage of Alipay APP, click to enter the "More" entrance, and you will see a new "cloud market" project, which brings together the resources of wholesalers in the women's clothing wholesale market across the country. Most of the wholesalers currently settled in are located in Hangzhou, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. At first glance, Alibaba seems to have moved the 1688 women's clothing wholesale business to Alipay, but it is actually not that simple.
5. Zuckerberg also loves to play live broadcasts: Today I will use Facebook to talk to three astronauts.
On May 31, local time in the United States, Zuckerberg announced on his Facebook personal homepage that it will connect with astronauts from the International Space Station through Facebook live to interact with them at 9:55 am on June 1 (12:55 noon on June 2, Beijing time). Zuckerberg will select questions from netizens around the world that want to ask astronauts and ask questions on behalf of everyone.
6. The first day of implementation of express production safety standards: real-name system and unboxing inspection are in vain.
At the end of 2015, the State Post Bureau reviewed and approved the "Express Production Safety Operation Standards", which will be officially implemented on June 1, 2016. The "Specifications" clearly state that unboxing and inspection of the sender's goods and verifying the sender's real-name information are all "mandatory standards for the postal industry." On June 1, the reporter's experience of sending documents found that the enforcement rate on the first day of the mandatory standard was low. The reporter learned from multiple sources that the "Specification" currently does not have corresponding penalties, and relevant departments will take measures to interview first and then rectify the violation express delivery companies. Many interviewed express delivery industry insiders admitted to reporters that the problems that need to be solved at present are the relationship between the formulation of supporting laws and regulations, the privacy guarantee of senders, and the profit of express delivery companies.
7. Compete for overseas competition? Alibaba and Tencent jointly invested in Israel Search Company
on June 1. According to foreign media reports, Alibaba will inject $5 million to $10 million into Israeli startup Twiggle, using its search technology to consolidate its leading position in the Chinese e-commerce market. Tel Aviv-based Twiggle announced on Tuesday that Alibaba has participated in its latest round of funding. Twiggle's latest round of financing is led by South African conglomerate Naspers. Naspers holds 34% of Alibaba's competitor Tencent Holdings and is a well-known shareholder of Tencent Holdings, so it is unusual for Alibaba and Naspers to participate in Twiggle's financing at the same time.
8. Signing a contract with a Korean entertainment company, how can Han Du Yishe build the next Song Joong Ki?
Recently, Han Du Yishe signed a contract with South Korean cultural industry company J-ONE PARTNERS. The reporter contacted Hu Jindong, deputy general manager and chief cultural officer of its group. He said that the two sides will deeply connect with content resources and use the entertainment and fashion industry as the entry point to broaden the publicity channels of the Korean Du Yishe brand between China and South Korea. Does this mean that Handu Yishe will enter the entertainment industry in the future? What new possibilities will the ecology of Handu Yishe, which has been announced on April 29, have been officially announced.
9. 58 Group's structure is adjusted, focusing on the real estate business group.
Sources revealed that 58 Group will adjust its organizational structure chart from today. Among them, the front desk BG team will rely on 6 business groups to carry out business, including SAG service and vehicle business group, HRG human resources business group, HBG real estate business group, ECG platform ecological and innovation business group, 58 Talent recruitment business unit, channel and overseas business unit.
10. Gay social application Blued has raised the C+ round of pink economic wind.
On June 1, Gay social application Blued officially announced that it has completed a total of hundreds of millions of yuan in financing in the C and C+ rounds. Among them, the C round of financing was led by Ventech China, followed by Hong Kong New World Group, BAI and DCM, the C+ round was led by Jiayu Capital, and China Mobile Games. Blued CEO Geng Le said that after completing these two new rounds of financing, the company will focus on internationalization and commercialization development, build a first-class team, and start industrial incubation and ecosystem layout in the pink economy field.