#Laogao E-commerce News# [E-commerce Evening News on April 9] 1. Jack Ma sent an open letter: Peng Lei stepped down as chairman of Ant Financial; 2. Drones took the lead in the JD Smart Agricultural Community; 3. New retail opened to the dormitory building and the national Tmall campus store in Sichuan Normal University; 4. Ele.me will connect the account system and marketing system with word of mouth...
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1. Jack Ma sent an open letter: Peng Lei stepped down as chairman of Ant Financial
Ant Financial has made its second major personnel adjustment since its establishment. On April 9, Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma sent an internal letter to his employees that Peng Lei will step down as chairman of Ant Financial and Ant Financial CEO Jing Xiandong will also serve as chairman. (Source: Yibang Power Network)
Jack Ma sent an open letter: Peng Lei stepped down as chairman of Ant Financial
2. The JD Smart Agricultural Community was established
On April 9, the JD UAV Open Empowerment and Smart Agricultural Community Launch Conference was held at the JD Group Headquarters. At the meeting, JD.com announced that it will take drone agricultural and forestry plant protection services as the starting point, integrate JD.com Group's logistics, finance, fresh food, big data and other capabilities, build a smart agricultural community, and cooperate with local governments, leading agricultural upstream and downstream enterprises, and experts in the agricultural field to build an open, symbiotic and win-win agricultural cooperation platform. (Source: Yibang Power Network)
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3. New retail opening to the dormitory building, national Tmall campus store is located in Sichuan Normal University
Recently, after a month of renovation, Jiahe Supermarket, located in the Jackie Chan Campus of Sichuan Normal University, has a completely different appearance from decoration design, product display, application and distribution of black technology, and has greatly improved its service quality, becoming a "Internet celebrity" campus supermarket in Chengdu, which is also a national campus store in Tmall. For Chengdu, its new retail pace is one step ahead. Currently, Hema and Tmall Supermarkets have both entered Chengdu.
Shao Xiong, director of Tmall’s omni-channel fast-moving consumer goods, said that within the next year, Tmall will open 1,000 campus stores, and enter 1,000 universities across the country within three years, serving 20 million colleges and universities, and creating a new retail + university ecology. According to statistics from the Ministry of Education, there are currently 2,631 universities and 26.958 million college students nationwide. In addition, faculty and staff of colleges and universities will also enjoy the convenience and beauty brought by Tmall campus stores. (Source: Tianxia Online Business)
4. Ele.me will connect the account system and marketing system with word of mouth
The Word of Mouth App announced that it will jointly launch a mealtime red envelope activity in April with Ele.me. It is reported that in the future, the account systems of both parties, as well as marketing systems such as red envelopes and vouchers will be fully opened. The person in charge of Ele.me's product said that the future collaboration between word of mouth and Ele.me will be more systematic and thorough. The account systems of both parties, as well as marketing systems such as red envelopes and vouchers, will be fully connected. In the word-of-mouth app, users can enjoy Ele.me’s takeaway service. (Source: 36Kr)
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5. Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun: We write "not greedy" into the company's articles of association
Xiaomi co-founder and CEO Lei Jun said in an interview, "We must curb the tendency of greed and win the absolute trust of consumers, so we are considering it now. I think we may write 'not greed' into the company's articles of association. We will not permanently make the profits of the hardware business exceed a specific percentage point. Our goal is this one or two percentage points." (Source: 36kr)
6. Gionee's supply chain is further collapsed, and he may follow the old path of LeTV
Gionee's supply chain has fallen further, and may follow the old path of LeTV.
On April 9, 2018, Gionee Mobile announced that its production line failed to produce as scheduled and may lay off 50% of its employees. At this point, its vice president begged the supply chain partners to forgive and promised the supplier to pay off all the debts owed. (Source: Yibang Power Network)
7. HC Group increased its capital by 50 million yuan to Shanghai Cotton Union and held 51% of its shares
On April 9, Yibang Power Network learned that HCG Group issued an announcement yesterday that its wholly-owned subsidiary Shanghai Huijing and its existing shareholders have conditionally agreed to inject RMB 50 million in Shanghai Cotton E-Commerce Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shanghai Cotton") in cash, and become the latter's shareholder holding approximately 43.84% of the shares. (Source: Yibang Power Network)
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8. The next stop of India’s “Alipay” Paytm: Yu'ebao?
Indian mobile payment giant Paytm recently announced that it will develop new applications and invest in mutual funds. Paytm, which claims to have a 300 million user base, announced it will launch a mutual fund distribution digital platform at the end of April, and its new Android and iOS apps will provide investors with mutual fund products from 12 well-known asset management companies in the first phase. By August, it aims to increase its product sources to about 25 fund companies. It is estimated that India's mutual fund industry is worth US$338.3 billion. After the launch of Paytm mutual fund distribution platform, asset management companies with up to 18 million investors are about to have more than 15 times the customer base. (Source: Sohu)
9. Global payment service provider PayPal will launch a fintech incubator in Singapore
PayPal, a world-leading payment service provider, will launch a nine-month incubation project for fintech startups in Singapore. This innovation lab is working to create and promote partnerships that enable participants to innovate themselves and create better payment and financing solutions in the payment and financing of their own global financial platform, Singapore’s fintech ecosystem, government agencies, industrial organizations, small and medium-sized enterprises, and universities. (Source: 36kr)
10. Indonesia's "Dianping" and "Ele.me" join forces
Indonesian restaurant recommendation application Qraved recently announced a partnership with Go-Food, Go-Jek's takeaway service, to integrate the latter's application program interface (API) on its content platform, allowing users to directly connect Go-Food to order food under restaurant entries or blog posts. This investment strategy has been rated as a win-win situation, which not only brings more traffic to Qraved, but also brings more transactions to Go-food partner restaurants. (Source: 36kr)
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