#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on April 13]

      #Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on April 13] Evening News : Rosen's business in China achieved annual profit for the first time; eBay UK station replaced the "Fast'N Free" logo with an estimated delivery date; JD.com launched the new business fee standard for "JD.com Housekeeping" to launch the new business is 150 yuan/3 hours.

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1. TikTok’s internal beta map pet function users can feed virtual pets

      According to reports on April 13, Douyin is internally testing the "map pet" function. "Map Pet" is a pet feeding game launched by Douyin. It runs through the entire process of pet growth, including feeding, cleaning, playing and other gameplay modes. Currently, the pet that can be fed is a kitten, and its gameplay is similar to QQ pets. Social gameplay may be launched later. The entrance is located in the same city interface in the Douyin App. (Tech Planet)

2. JD.com and Changzhou carry out a total investment of 10 billion yuan in intelligent industry cooperation.

      On April 13, Chen Jinhu, deputy secretary of the Changzhou Municipal Party Committee and mayor, and his party visited JD Intelligent Industry Development Group to promote the official signing of the JD-Zhonglou full-region intelligent industry cooperation project. JD Group plans to invest 10 billion yuan in Zhonglou District, Changzhou City, carry out comprehensive intelligent industry cooperation, and build JD Southern Jiangsu regional e-commerce logistics, operation and settlement center and Yangtze River Delta intelligent manufacturing R&D center. At present, the first phase of the project JD Intelligent Industrial Park has successfully settled in Zhonglou Economic Development Zone. (E-commerce News)

3. The charging standard for JD.com’s new business launch of “JD.com Housekeeping” is 150 yuan/3 hours

      According to Beijing Business Daily, JD.com recently launched a new business of "JD.com Housekeeping". This business focuses on daily cleaning services. Cleaners are self-trained by JD.com and are currently only open to some parts of Beijing. It is reported that users can search for "JD Housekeeping" on the JD App and jump to the relevant business page. JD.com's housekeeping business includes basic cleaning services, with a charging standard of 150 yuan/3 hours. (E-commerce News)

4. Qunar: The average price of air tickets on May Day has increased by more than 20% compared with 2019

      According to reports on April 13, Qunar data shows that the number of air ticket bookings during the May Day holiday this year has significantly exceeded the same period in 2019, and has increased by more than 25 times compared with the same period in 2020; the average air ticket payment price is 924 yuan, an increase of more than 20% over 2019. On April 30 and May 1, some flights in Beijing-Sanya were sold out, and business class was only tens of thousands of yuan on sale. (Yibang Power)

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5. Wish: Starting from April 16, the new road direction and road direction prices will be updated.

      According to Hugo.com, recently, Wish issued an announcement stating that starting from 0:00 on April 16, 2021, some WishPost logistics channels will be updated. Merchants can view the updated price card after the effective time and choose to appropriately adjust the logistics channels they use. Wish mentioned that the company is constantly cooperating with various logistics service providers to provide merchants with more preferential logistics freight fees. Therefore, Wish may not issue an announcement directly to the merchant when the shipping fee is lowered. Merchants can view the latest price cards at any time in WishPost.

      At the same time, the update of WishPost logistics channels and road direction prices does not affect A+ logistics plans and EPC Blue orders.

      Wish emphasizes that merchants can check the timeliness through the logistics consulting tool in WishPost and select the appropriate WishPost logistics channel. At the same time, Wish recommends that merchants communicate with the logistics service provider about the shipping capacity and latest shipping status of the selected channel before delivery, and then ship the goods after understanding the specific information.

      It is understood that Wish recently announced that starting from April 12, 2021, the "Exposure" and "Product Exposure" indicators on the "Product Overview", "Sales Performance" and "Sales Chart" pages on the merchant platform will change the calculation method to display the correct data. (E-commerce News)

6. Lazada app provides CDG taxi service to Singapore users

      April 12th news, according to techinasia, Lazada recently reached a cooperation with Singaporean transport company ComfortDelGro, which began to provide ride services to Singapore users on the homepage of Lazada's application. This service is called "CDG Taxi", and its entrance is in parallel with Lazada's main products LazMall, Taobao, RedMart, LazLive, etc. According to reports, as part of its January-long ride service trial, ComfortDelGro added 25 new private rental cars in January this year, competing with Southeast Asian ride giants Grab and Gojek.

      In addition, this is not the first time Lazada has cooperated with ComfortDelGro. As early as April last year, Lazada's RedMart had jointly delivered food in Singapore with ComfortDelGro.

      It is worth mentioning that Lazada has currently provided services including commerce, logistics and payment in six Southeast Asian countries, covering Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines, and plans to provide services to 300 million customers by 2030.

      Last year, Lazada also added a flight booking function for Singapore and Philippines users. Some industry insiders analyzed that Lazada is trying to surpass its core services and gradually develop into super applications such as Grab and Gojek. (E-commerce News)

7. eBay UK station replaces the "Fast'N Free" logo with an estimated delivery date

      On April 12, according to Blue Ocean Yiguan.com, recently, eBay UK website updated a content. The product details page and search results no longer display the "Fast'N Free" logo, but directly replace it with the specific "estimated delivery date (ETA)", such as "free next-day delivery", "free two-day delivery", "free 3-day delivery", etc. eBay calls it "Simplified Postage Message". According to reports, when eBay launched the "Fast'N Free" logo, "3-day delivery" was considered a very fast delivery speed. Now, "3-day delivery" can only be considered a relatively economical transportation method, and "next-day delivery" or "same-day delivery" can be considered a fast transportation method

      It is worth mentioning that although eBay has always promised to ensure that sellers provide Premium Service services, in fact, many consumers still cannot search for products that meet "Premium Service". This time, eBay replaced the "Fast'N Free" logo with "Simplified Postage Message", which may change this situation. When consumers search, they can see the delivery time of listing, including the range from "next day delivery" to "delivery within 3 working days".

      It is understood that eBay recently announced that it will jointly launch the eBay fulfillment by Orange Connex UK warehouse trial operation service with the Orange Connex team. This means that eBay's warehousing and distribution services will be fully covered in the UK. At present, in addition to Orange Alliance, 20 companies including SF Express, China Post, and Delivery Sifang have also reached logistics cooperation with eBay. (E-commerce News)

8. Google will close mobile shopping app Google Shopping

      On April 12, Google is closing Google Shopping, a mobile shopping app on iOS and Android. A Google spokesperson told the media that Google Shopping's apps on various platforms will continue to run until June. Google will no longer support the Shopping app in the next few weeks. But the spokesperson said that all the features Google Shopping provides to users can be found in the shopping channel of Google's official website. The shopping.google.com website will continue to remain active, and in the future, Google will continue to build these features in its shopping channels and other Google interfaces, including official Google apps. (Yibang Power)

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9. Global PC shipments soared by 32% in the first quarter, setting the fastest growth rate in 21 years

      April 13th news, a report released by market research firm Gartner on Monday showed that global personal computer (PC) shipments in the first quarter of this year reached 69.9 million units, a year-on-year increase of 32%, setting the fastest year-on-year growth rate since Gartner began tracking this data in 2000. (Titanium Media)

10. Luo Sen's business in China achieved annual profit for the first time

      According to the news on April 13, Rosen's recent annual financial report for 2020 stated that due to the good control of the epidemic in China, its overall sales in the Chinese market have also recovered far faster than Japan. Overall, Rosen's overseas business reached 61.3 billion yen operating income in 2020, an increase of 9.2% over the same period of the previous year. Sadashi Takezumi, president of Japan's Rosen Co., Ltd., said that Rosen's business in China achieved full-year profits for the first time in 2020. "China is a huge market with 1.3 billion people, and we also plan to combine delivery to home delivery services in the Chinese market." (Yibang Power)