#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on August 17]

　　#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on August 17] Alibaba entered Taiwan and set up a Taobao Taiwan Station to play the local card; JD executives: JD and Google complement each other in many aspects; it is said that Toutiao is planning to raise financing and valuation of US$75 billion; Walmart and Ellen DeGeneres cooperate to push exclusive women's clothing; Amazon will strictly investigate the main picture violations in September...

　　E-commerce newsletter:

　　1. Alibaba enters Taiwan and set up Taobao Taiwan Station to play local cards

　　Taiwanese media said that Alibaba's Taobao is optimistic about Taiwan's consumption power and decided to strengthen its entry into the Taiwan market. According to Taiwan's Economic Daily, Wu Dewei, general manager of Alibaba's Tmall business unit, said on the 14th that Taobao's improvement of Taiwan's stations, including improving interfaces, payments, delivery and return methods, will rent warehouses in Taiwan to speed up logistics and introduce third-party payment. (Reference message)

　　2. JD Executive: JD and Google complement each other in many aspects

　　Liao Jianwen, chief strategy officer of JD Group, said: JD and Google can cooperate more closely on the Shopping Action project, and we can use it as an entrance to sell JD products on this shopping platform. By building closer collaboration with Google in many ways, we also have more ambitious plans. Thanks to this strategic cooperation, we believe that the two companies will launch more new projects, and these new projects will also be launched over time. (Sina)

　　3. Youzan opens an offline store and is currently under trial operation

　　On the evening of August 16, Youzan CEO Bai Ya announced on his circle of friends that he had opened an offline store called "Youzan's Store". The store’s product selection is different from that of most merchants, including food, supplies, catering and other aspects. At the same time, the store is supported by Youzan's system and Youzan's products and services are operated online. Bai Ya revealed that the store is under trial operation and will be launched after the business is mature. Baiya hopes that the goods in the store will come from Youzan's merchants in the future. (E-commerce News)

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　　4. Toutiao is rumored to be planning to raise financing and valuation of US$75 billion

　　On August 16, it was reported online that ByteDance, the operating company of Toutiao and TikTok, planned to conduct an IPO next year. Although it had given up a financing before, the financing valued the company as high as US$45 billion. Recently, news of financing has been reported from Toutiao, with the valuation of this financing reaching US$75 billion. (TechWeb.com.cn)

　　5. Hongxin browser statement: admits that the product is based on Chromium open source project

　　On the evening of August 16, Hongxin Times (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. issued a statement saying that the Hongxin browser kernel is based on the general browser kernel architecture (i.e., the Chromium open source project, but not the Chrome browser). Different from traditional browsers, Hongxin browser is a international browser kernel technology designed specifically for corporate office scenes. It is constantly iterative and updated, and the Hongxin browser kernel Redcore is based on Chromium/Blink. (E-commerce News)

　　6. JD.com CFO Huang Xuande: Revenue slowdown is due to seasonal factors, and marketing activities will be held

　　京东CFO黄宣德表示，二季度营收的放缓主要是由于季节性的因素，并且在今年这个影响比往年都要显著，我们的很多品类都不同程度的受到了这个市场环境变化的影响。但是在8月我们会举办很多营销活动，因此我们对营收增长的恢复持有十分乐观的态度。（腾讯）

　　7. Alibaba released its first urban night vitality report, 23 o'clock is the peak of nightlife

　　Alibaba released its first "city night" report reflecting the vitality of Chinese cities late at night. Data shows that 23 o'clock became the active small peak in the first half of the night in the city, and the peak and valley were postponed to 4 a.m., when the city was truly asleep. The most active ten functions include taking buses by Alipay, taking subway by code, Ant Forest, Ant Manor, water, electricity and coal payment, online shopping, shared bicycles, government affairs inquiry, etc., showing a multi-dimensional trend. (IT Home)

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　　8. Amazon will strictly check the main picture violations in September

　　In the past two days, many Amazon sellers have found that there is a problem with the pictures on the product page. Some listings' secondary images have been deleted or the main images have been reduced. As a result, the product exposure has dropped dramatically and the orders have declined. Do you think there is something wrong with the Amazon system? In fact, it is Amazon that began to fulfill its previous promise to "block main photos in July and not comply with the listing". Many sellers have encountered listing picture problems. Since yesterday, the editor has seen problems with product picture failures in multiple seller groups. A seller suddenly found that the pictures of the front and backend products were inconsistent, and there were only the main pictures left in the front desk. Some people guessed that the pictures were modified by VE and the seller said that they were not sold, and the editorial rights were still in their hands. Another seller also made a similar discovery: the pictures of a sub-SKU were modified, and the products were gradually increasing; some seller echoed: I also deleted two sub-pictures, and there were only five pictures in the front desk in the seven pictures, and the backend still existed, and six or seven variants had few pictures. (Yien.com)

　　9. Walmart cooperates with Ellen DeGeneres to push exclusive women's clothing

　　Yesterday, Walmart officially released an official statement saying that the company is collaborating with Ellen DeGeneres to launch a new exclusive women's clothing series - EV1. Ellen DeGeneres is an American actress and stand-up comedian who now hosts the talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Yesterday, Ellen DeGeneres also tweeted on Twitter to promote the EV1 series. (Yien.com)

　　10. Japanese consumption tax that makes Amazon sellers "confused"

　　An email from Amazon has put sellers of Japanese sites on the platform into a "confused" state. Japanese consumption tax has become a must-have "project" for Japanese and Asian sellers, but many sellers still don't know what consumption tax is. In fact, how to regulate the taxation of overseas e-commerce platforms is a headache for the Japanese government. As one of the countries that do not have VAT, the consumption tax is the main tax of the country. As we all know, consumers need to charge a certain consumption tax when shopping offline in Japan, and the taxes and fees will be directly noted after the price. However, the situation of overseas merchants selling products to users on e-commerce platforms may be much more complicated... (Yibang Power News)

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