#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Evening News on April 8]

　　#Laogao E-commerce News# [E-commerce Evening News on April 8] 1. Strategic cooperation between JD and Xiangtan government: Liu Qiangdong will invest 10 billion yuan to help development; 2. HaiLan Home’s main brand micro-mall officially settled today; 3. Alipay was fined 180,000 yuan for many violations such as improper use of personal financial information ; 4. The results of the special spot check on the quality of shared bicycles were released for the first time, with an unqualified rate of 12.5%....

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　　1. Strategic cooperation between JD.com and Xiangtan government: Liu Qiangdong will invest 10 billion yuan to help development

　　On April 8, JD.com and the Xiangtan Municipal People's Government officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement. The two parties will jointly build a large-scale, informatized and modern trade and logistics base in Xiangtan, and develop an e-commerce industry system with complete functions, high added value and strong competitiveness. Liu Qiangdong, Chairman and CEO of JD Group, said that JD Group plans to invest 10 billion yuan in Xiangtan in the future to promote the sustainable development of Xiangtan's economy and society. In addition, Liu Qiangdong also announced that he would donate RMB 10 million to Xiangtan University, and the two parties jointly established the "JD Scholarship". (Source: Sina Technology)

　　2. Hailan Home’s main brand micro-mall officially entered today

　　April 8th news, today, HaiLan Home officially announced that the micro-mall will be launched. It is reported that the current product categories in the mall are divided into 8 types, including suits, shirts, sweatshirts, T-shirts, jackets, pants, shoes and accessories.

　　Yibang Power Network learned that after entering HaiLan Micro Mall, users can see special recommendations for single products and new products on the homepage, including new summer products, same styles for celebrities, personalized products, etc., and relevant products will be recommended to users within the topic. After selecting the product, consumers can use the order to submit and pay via WeChat. (Source: Yibang Power Network)

　　3. Alipay was fined 180,000 yuan for multiple violations such as improper use of personal financial information.

　　On the afternoon of April 8, according to the official website of the People's Bank of China, Alipay (China) Network Technology Co., Ltd. was sentenced to a fine of 180,000 yuan for multiple violations. It is understood that Alipay-related violations involve customer rights, product promotion and personal information protection. (Source: Sina Technology)

　　Internet news

　　4. The results of the special spot check on the quality of shared bicycles were released for the first time, with a failure rate of 12.5%.

　　This morning, the reporter learned from relevant departments that the results of the special spot check for the quality of shared bicycle products have been released. This is the first time that relevant national departments have carried out a special spot check on the quality of shared bicycle products.

　　The results show that among the 24 batches of samples that were randomly inspected, 3 batches failed, with a failure rate of 12.5%. It is higher than the national unqualified rate of ordinary bicycles in the past two years. (Source: CCTV)

　　The results of the special spot check on the quality of shared bicycles were released for the first time

　　5. Kuaishou said it has cleared 50,000 problematic short videos and seized 11,000 users

　　After being summoned for vulgar content and ordered to rectify it, the short video platform Kuaishou announced an emergency expansion of the auditor team during the Qingming Festival holiday, and has cleared 51,000 problematic short videos and banned more than 11,000 users.

　　Recently, in order to strengthen the matching of review capabilities with massive uploaded content, Kuaishou announced that the review team will be expanded to 5,000 people, and 3,000 new content review editor positions will be recruited nationwide, and required that "good political awareness and literacy be given priority, strong political sensitivity and identification ability be given priority, and Communist Youth League members and party members are given priority." (Source: Beijing Daily)

　　6. The first Internet patent case" has been sentenced to all verdicts: Sogou lost 14 consecutive games

　　Recently, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court made a judgment on the last batch of cases of Baidu and Sogou's "first Internet Patent Case". Sogou, the initiator of the lawsuit, ended with 14 consecutive losses, which also means that a patent lawsuit with a well-known scale in the history of China's Internet industry has been settled. (Source: Global Network)

　　The first Internet patent case" has been sentenced to all verdicts: Sogou lost 14 consecutive games

　　7. Thousands of employees wrote to Google to call on it to withdraw from U.S. drone project

　　More than 3,100 Google employees signed a petition against Google's participation in Project Maven, a Pentagon AI pilot project.

　　The letter was written to Google CEO Sundar Pichai. "We don't think Google should be involved in the war," the protesters wrote in the letter. The letter asked Pichai to immediately announce Google's withdrawal from Project Maven, the Pentagon pilot project, and announced that it would never "develop war technology." Last month, Google allowed the Pentagon to use artificial intelligence technology to interpret video images. Google employees have been resistant to the project from the beginning and are now further objecting through an open letter. (Source: Global Network)

　　8. China Unicorn Report: 80% of Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Shenzhen account for 10% of them, and deeply related to BAT

　　Chinese unicorns are concentrated in "Beijing, Shang, Hangzhou and Shenzhen". According to the industry list, enterprises are highly intensive in the fields of culture and entertainment, e-commerce, automobile transportation and technology finance, and the basis of these enterprises is based on the Internet. The number ones are Da Entertainment and E-commerce, each with 18 companies accounting for 14.17%. In terms of geographical distribution, more than 80% of unicorns gather in the four major cities of "Beijing, Shang, Shenzhen and Hangzhou", while Beijing ranks first with 58 companies. In addition, Beijing leads other cities with an overall valuation of US$336.1 billion. Interestingly, although the number of unicorn companies in Shanghai is twice that of Hangzhou, the overall valuation is lower than that of Hangzhou, and Shenzhen ranks fourth with US$19 billion. (Source: Evergrande Research Institute)

　　Cross-border e-commerce

　　9. AliExpress releases notice on matters related to VAT in the UK overseas warehouse

　　AliExpress platform issued an announcement stating that the seller's VAT registration number for the UK overseas warehouse is invalid, and the platform has the right to immediately terminate the seller's qualifications and system permissions in AliExpress's "Overseas Warehouse" program. For sellers whose VAT registration number in the UK has not been certified, they must complete the re-editing of the products and remove them from the UK overseas warehouse attributes before April 10, 2018, otherwise the platform will unify the relevant products on April 11. At the same time, the platform has restricted the sale of the product "Ship From UK" attribute. (Source: E-commerce News)

　　10. Amazon released more than 70 of its own brands, mainly clothing

　　According to foreign media reports, after Amazon launched its own brand in 2009, the company was dormant in the field for four years, and then launched more private brands. And when it launched its own diaper brand in 2014, it fell into an embarrassing situation: Amazon pulled the brand off the shelves less than two months after it launched it. But the situation will develop differently in the future. According to a study by market research firm L2, Amazon has been crazily releasing its own brands since early 2017, with at least 60 private brands, mainly focusing on the fields of clothing, shoes and jewelry. Judging from the list provided by L2, Amazon now sells more than 70 private brand products. (Source: Tencent Technology)

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