#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [May 11 E-commerce Morning Newsletter]

　　#老高电商报# 【5月11日电商早报简讯】1、 电商平台“品志”获上川创投基金数千万人民币Pre-A轮融资； 2、阿里日马云为102位新人证婚 感慨一切都是假的，孩子是自己的；3、网购黄金被一刀切，逾百家平台面临整改；4、阿里CEO张勇：数字化将让中国创造换道超车；5、唯品会最新股权曝光：沈亚持股12.7%，快被腾讯京东联手追平 ；6、外媒：蚂蚁金服正接近达成100亿美元的股权融资协议……

E-commerce newsletter

1. The e-commerce platform "Pinzhi" received tens of millions of RMB Pre-A round of financing from Shangchuan Venture Capital Fund

On May 8, 2018, the member-based e-commerce platform "Pinzhi" received a Pre-A round of financing of tens of millions of RMB by Shangchuan Venture Capital Fund. Pinzhi is a platform that provides high-end products and services to corporate VIP customers, and provides corporate users with VIP customer benefits outsourcing services. (Source: Chuangyebang)

2. On Alibaba Day, Jack Ma sighed that he had witnessed the marriage for 102 newlyweds. Everything was fake and the child was his own.

On May 10, the 14th Alibaba Day was held at the 13th Alibaba Day group wedding in the Xixi Park of Alibaba. Jack Ma personally witnessed the marriage for 102 couples. At the wedding, Jack Ma appeared in a Chinese long gown and glasses, holding two flower girls. Jack Ma said, "Someone asked, does Alibaba have any dreams? I have seen countless dreams in your eyes. What is a dream? Dreams are all about dreams. Our work is about dreaming, but the most important thing is that the person next to you is the person you have to dreaming." When raising the glass at the end, Jack Ma said from the bottom of his heart: "Everything is fake, and the child is his own." (Source: Lianshang.com)

On Alibaba Day, Jack Ma sighed that everything was fake for 102 newlyweds to testify marriage, and that the child was his own. On Alibaba Day, Jack Ma sighed that everything was fake for 102 newlyweds to testify marriage, and that the child was his own.

3. Online gold shopping is one-size-fits-all, and more than 100 platforms are facing rectification

The central bank is setting rules for the wildly growing Internet gold market. The "Interim Management Measures for Internet Gold Business (Draft for Comments)" which is scheduled to end its feedback on May 11 directly points to the chaos in heavy metal investment and will clear the source of the Internet gold industry.

Nandu reporters noticed that the five "red lines" among the 16 soliciting opinions are the most concerned by market participants: Internet institutions shall not provide any form of gold account services; they shall not provide gold clearing, settlement, delivery and other services; they shall not provide gold product transfer services; they shall not transfer agent products to other institutions for secondary or multi-level agents; they shall not sell gold products to investors with insufficient risk tolerance.

According to incomplete statistics from Nandu reporters, there are more than 100 Internet gold financial platforms on the market. According to the requirements for soliciting opinions, these platforms have different degrees of involvement in many issues such as low registered capital, no financial licenses yet, no registration of the agency platform, and adjustment of product display methods. (Source: Southern Metropolis Daily)

4. Alibaba CEO Zhang Yong: Digitalization will allow China to create new lanes and overtake

Alibaba Group CEO Zhang Yong said that Alibaba’s unique advantages are ecosystem and digitalization. After thirty or forty years of development, China's products' manufacturing, creation, design and market operation capabilities have become the world's leading. We can use the thinking of overtaking in a lane to change lane to let Chinese manufacturing and Chinese creation go global. This is the real Chinese solution. (Source: Sina Technology)

Alibaba CEO Zhang Yong: Digitalization will allow China to create lanes to overtake Alibaba CEO Zhang Yong: Digitalization will allow China to create lanes to overtake

5、唯品会最新股权曝光：沈亚持股12.7%，快被腾讯京东联手追平

唯品会日前向美国SEC递交文件显示，截止2018年3月31日，唯品会创始人、CEO沈亚持股为12.7%，为最大股东，唯品会联合创始人、COO洪晓波持股为6.8%，为第三大股东。

过去一年，唯品会股权最大变化是，腾讯、京东分别成为第二、第四大股东，沈亚、洪晓波持股下降。唯品会相当于放弃了独立发展，投进了腾讯、京东的电商联盟阵营。腾讯、京东共持有唯品会12.5%股权，联合持股已非常逼近沈亚的12.7%的持股。

According to Vipshop's 2017 annual report, Tencent President Liu Chiping has entered the Vipshop board of directors, and Vipshop's board members also include Sequoia Capital partner Liu Xing. (Source: Leidi Touch.com)

6. Alibaba Cloud launches artificial intelligence pork, which can analyze pig behavior characteristics

At Alibaba Open Day held today, Alibaba Cloud's artificial intelligence pork was officially unveiled.

According to Alibaba Cloud, this batch of pigs is farmed by Alibaba Cloud, Sichuan Special Drive Group and Dekang Group. Tedu Group is a national key leading enterprise in domestic agricultural industrialization, with an annual pig breeding of about 10 million. During the breeding process, they have fully introduced Alibaba Cloud's artificial intelligence technology, including identification of various types of pig populations, analysis of pig herd behavior characteristics, disease identification and early warning, and no one overweight. In the artificial intelligence pig farm, each pig has its own file from the date of birth, can receive meticulous care, and can make an epidemic warning as soon as possible.

The pork raised in this way has no soul! (Source: Tencent Technology)

7. Foreign media: Ant Financial is approaching reaching a $10 billion equity financing agreement

According to foreign media CNBC, Ant Financial is close to reaching a $10 billion equity financing agreement. Previously, according to the financial report released by Bloomberg on Alibaba Group, Ant Financial's pre-tax profit was RMB 9.18 billion (approximately US$1.4 billion), a year-on-year increase of 65%. Ant Financial is controlled by Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma.

Ant Financial is conducting a round of financing, hoping to raise at least $10 billion from investors led by Temasek Holdings, with a valuation of $150 billion. This will be the largest technology private equity financing on record and will pave the way for Ant Financial's IPO. Ant Financial's business spans the fields of payment and wealth management, with 870 million active users worldwide.

The Hong Kong Economic Daily said that Ant Financial has basically finalized its listing on both Hong Kong stocks and A-shares. (Source: NetEase Technology)

8. Baidu sells its Ele.me equity to Alibaba: cashing out US$488 million

Baidu recently submitted documents to the US SEC. The documents show that Baidu has signed a formal agreement with Alibaba to agree to transfer the Ele.me equity held by Baidu Hong Kong to Alibaba, with a total amount of US$488 million.

In August 2017, Baidu Takeaway was sold for US$500 million, and Baidu packaged traffic entrance resources to Ele.me for US$300 million, with a total acquisition price of US$800 million. Of the $800 million, US$200 million is cash. Ele.me issued an additional $300 million in shares. After the transaction is completed, Baidu accounts for 5% of Ele.me shares, and the remaining $300 million is locked for five years.

In April 2018, Alibaba and Ant Financial completed a wholly-owned acquisition of Ele.me with a valuation of US$9.5 billion. Based on this calculation, before Alibaba and Ant Financial acquired Ele.me, Baidu held 5.13% of the shares of Ele.me. (Source: Tencent Technology)

Internet news

9. Enterprise WeChat has added a separate "Connect WeChat" section in the web management background

On May 8, Enterprise WeChat has added a separate "Connect WeChat" section in the web management background, including four submodules: "Message Interoperability", "Mini Program", "Enterprise Payment", and "Micro Workbench". These functions will help corporate employees provide more services to customers and partners, and help companies uniformly manage employees' internal and external communication and customer relationships. Among them, "Message Interoperability" supports enterprise employees to use enterprise WeChat to add customers in WeChat as friends, and after adding, both parties can send messages to each other. Through the "Message Interoperability" function, corporate employees can better communicate with customers and provide services, and companies can also manage customer relationships in a unified manner to avoid customer churn caused by employee resignation. (Source: Yibang Power Network)

Cross-border newsletter

10. The first batch of 20 companies will benefit from the cultivation of new cross-border e-commerce brands

Yesterday, the "Special Action for Cultivating New Manufacturing Brands" of the Hangzhou Comprehensive Pilot Zone, one of the top ten special actions of the "New Foreign Trade, New Services and New Manufacturing" plan, officially set sail. 20 companies including Zhejiang Pengyuan New Materials Co., Ltd. and Hangzhou Manno Leisure Products Co., Ltd. have become the first beneficiary companies. They will rely on the Hangzhou Google AdWords Experience Center and use various channels such as Google and YouTube to promote their brands to the world. (Source: China E-Commerce Research Center)

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