#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [November 30 E-commerce Morning News]

　　#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [November 30 E-commerce Morning News Brief] Alibaba upgraded its organizational structure again Hu Xiaoming became the president of Ant Financial Group; Taobao Daily Sales announced the upgrade and claimed that it would build 10,000 customized factories in three years; New Zealand banned Huawei 5G equipment because it "posed a major risk to national security"; Ctrip CEO Sun Jie denied that big data kills old customers: the platform does not allow price discrimination; OPPO achieved the world's first 5G mobile phone WeChat video call...

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　　1. Alibaba upgrades its organizational structure again. Hu Xiaoming becomes president of Ant Financial Group

　　On November 30, Ant Financial announced the upgrade of its organizational structure: Hu Xiaoming (nickname Sun Quan) of Alibaba Cloud became the president of Ant Financial Group and reported to Chairman and CEO Jing Xiandong. Jing Xiandong warmly welcomed Hu Xiaoming's return in the email and said that his return is a major upgrade of Ant Financial's organizational structure. During the Alibaba structure adjustment on the 26th of this month, Hu Xiaoming unexpectedly stepped down as president of Alibaba Cloud Business Group. At that time, Alibaba Group CEO Zhang Yong said in an open letter that Hu Xiaoming had other appointments. (E-commerce News)

　　2. Taobao Daily Sales announced the upgrade and claimed that it would build 10,000 customized factories in three years.

　　On November 29, Taobao Tiantian Special Sales announced the upgrade of its brand strategy today, saying that the price war is outdated and the value war is the future. In the next three years, 10,000 Tiantian Special Sales customized factories will be built to drive industrial transformation with digitalization. Previously, Taobao President Jiang Fan said that intelligence and digitalization are improving the operating efficiency of all fields of the physical world, and the same is true for manufacturing. Only by using the Internet can we truly bring about revolutionary capacity upgrades. TechWeb)

　　3. Tmall and Apple launched a "private training" service, helping users complete new product settings 1-on-1

　　The Tmall Customer Service Center established by Tmall and Apple in Wuxi has officially been put into operation. This customer service center, which is operated by Alibaba Customer Service FBT (Tmall Service Experience Improvement) project, has been in trial operation for one month and can undertake product consultation, order inquiry, after-sales service and other tasks. It also provides technical guidance services for Apple certified technical engineers "private training" and can help users complete the settings of Apple products purchased from Tmall flagship stores "1-to-1". (Quick Technology)

　　4. Gome lost 896 million yuan in the first three quarters and has a long road to transformation

　　According to November 30, Gome Retail recently released its 2018 third quarter report. Data shows that Gome's sales revenue in the first three quarters was 51 billion yuan, down 11.21% from the same period last year; the loss was 896 million yuan, an increase of 779 million yuan from the same period last year; the loss attributable to the parent company was 450 million yuan, while the profit was 220 million yuan in the same period last year. (Tencent.com)

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　　5. New Zealand bans Huawei 5G devices because it poses a major risk to national security

　　"New Zealand has become the latest country to ban Huawei 5G equipment." According to Reuters, New Zealand telecom operator Spark New Zealand issued a statement on the 28th saying that the director of the New Zealand government's Communications Security Agency rejected the company's proposal to use Huawei 5G equipment on the grounds that it "poses a major risk to national security."

　　6. Ctrip CEO Sun Jie denied that big data kills old customers: the platform does not allow price discrimination

　　On November 29, at the Fortune Global Technology Forum this afternoon, some media, like Ctrip CEO Sun Jie, asked a question that had been hyped up before: Is there any big data killing old customers on Ctrip's platform?

　　Regarding this somewhat sharp question, Sun Jie replied: "Our platform does not allow this price discrimination." She said that airline tickets have dynamic fluctuations, and Ctrip only displays them according to the prices they give, and hotels have star ratings, and prices are also different. But the price Ctrip shows to each user is exactly the same. (Phoenix Technology)

　　7. Mobike adjusts its own operating area to cause additional fees. Lawyer: Suspected of breach of contract

　　Recently, Mobike updated its operating area, which caused some users who originally purchased cards to be inconvenient and incurred scheduling and management fees. Some users reported that after communicating with the customer service, the other party said that the annual card and other bicycle packages purchased could not be cancelled. Lawyer Chang Sha from Beijing Kyoto Law Firm believes that after Mobike adjusted its business scope, it refused to refund cards to consumers who purchased annual and quarterly cards, which had no legal basis and constituted a breach of contract. (Beijing Youth Daily)

　　8. OPPO realizes the world's first 5G mobile WeChat video call

　　OPPO全球副总裁、中国大陆事业部总裁沈义人在微博表示：11月30日凌晨0点57分，我们成功打通了全球首个5G手机微信视频通话。（36氪）

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　　9. Amazon Cloud CEO: Market share reaches 51%, Alibaba Cloud surpasses Google

　　According to November 29, Amazon recently held the AWS re:Invent 2018 conference in Casino Las Vegas. When talking about the current competitive trend of public cloud computing in the world, Andy Jassy, ​​AWS (Amazon Web Service), said that Amazon's cloud market share is still ranked first, Microsoft and Alibaba are among the top three, and Google is ranked fourth.

　　The data cited by Andy Jassy comes from research firm Gartner. Amazon's cloud market share reached 51.8%, maintaining its absolute leading position, with Microsoft ranking second with 13.3%, and Alibaba ranking third with a share of 4.6%. Google ranked fourth with a share of 3.3%, and IBM ranked fifth with a share of 1.9%. Other manufacturers account for a total of 25%.

　　At present, the market share of the top three has reached 69.7%, and there is a trend of further expansion. Among them, Alibaba Cloud has grown rapidly in recent years, surpassing Google. The market share of other manufacturers will be further squeezed.

　　In addition, Andy Jassy also joked with Oracle founder Larry Ellison during his speech, believing that Oracle's share in the global cloud computing market is too low. A report released by PwC recently showed that Amazon ranked first in the world in terms of US$22.6 billion in R&D spending in the past year, twice as high as Apple. (Europe)

　　10. 1688 cross-border business class for 5 million purchasers a year

　　On November 29, 1688 Cross-border Special Offer announced that its super buyer project will be launched in December this year. 1688 cross-border exclusive supply said that buyers who purchase on the 1688 cross-border platform can obtain corresponding special services as long as they purchase more than 5 million yuan per year.

　　In fact, since the "first class" of super buyers was officially opened to buyers with annual purchases of more than 10 million yuan in April this year, the Super Buyer Project has provided special rights to nearly 200 of the most top cross-border sellers in China, including the main account function, API docking function, financial service privileges and high-quality manufacturer source privileges. (Yibang Power Network)

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