E-commerce Morning News on December 4

"#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on December 4]" Alibaba DingTalk CEO Chen Hang: Smart hardware "Smart Dot" is about to be launched; the six Silicon Valley giants, including Amazon and Apple, have exceeded US$100 billion in tax avoidance in the past 10 years; Qutoutiao's Q3 revenue was 1.407 billion yuan, higher than market expectations; Facebook spoke to antitrust institutions: Don't regard data as oil-like commodity; Luo Yonghao said at the "Old Man and the Sea" black technology press conference that he is no longer restricting the consumption list...

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1. Alipay launches "Capacity Laboratory" to incubate high-quality mini programs

On December 4, Alipay announced the official launch of the "Capability Laboratory" on December 3. Merchants can search for "Capability Laboratory" through the search box and go directly to the "Capability Center" and use Alipay's special capabilities in advance. These special abilities include Ant Charity Forest, Alipay membership, Huabei installment, etc. After becoming a lab member, merchants can enjoy benefits such as fast review, limited-time free cloud resources and technical support. In addition to the above capabilities, the laboratory will also connect to the mini program to jump H5, mini program multimedia function package, etc. in the future. (E-commerce News)

2. Suning launches the "Kaleidoscope" product selection system

Recently, in order to help merchants prepare for Suning’s Double Twelve event, Suning launched a kaleidoscope system, which uses big data and artificial intelligence technology to customize different product selection packages for consumers. In terms of functions, Suning Kaleidoscope takes big data and artificial intelligence as the core, searches for new products that have been launched in the past 30 days from all over the world, screens them layer by layer through big data analysis and evaluation of experts and buyers, and uses artificial intelligence technology to recommend the most suitable new products to different users. In addition, the Kaleidoscope also integrates trial functions, allowing hard-core users to try out new products as soon as possible, opening up social promotion channels for brands, and prompting users to share fissions in social sharing. Brands can also form word-of-mouth marketing through trial reports submitted by users to promote the completion of secondary orders. (Europe)

3. Brazil's e-commerce revenue reached 3.2 billion reais

On December 3, South American Overseas Chinese News reported that data released by Brazilian e-commerce data research company Ebit|Nielsen showed that Brazil's e-commerce revenue in 2019 was 3.2 billion reais (100 million reais is equivalent to RMB 160 million), a year-on-year increase of 23.6%; a total of 2.85 million Brazilian consumers made online shopping during the "Black Friday", an increase of 18% year-on-year (E-commerce News)

4. Alibaba DingTalk CEO Chen Hang: Smart hardware "Smart Point" will be launched soon

According to December 3, at the Alibaba Cloud Guangdong Summit held today, Alibaba DingTalk CEO Chen Hang revealed in his speech that a new DingTalk smart office hardware product called "DingTalk Smart Point B1" will be officially launched soon. According to reports, this product has features such as plug-in, network-free, real-person and field, and dynamic encryption and synchronization of cloud and end keys. It is equipped with AI and financial-level anti-fraud technologies or capabilities, and is committed to building cost-effective, high-security and high-reliability digital solutions for corporate users. (E-commerce News)

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5. Six Silicon Valley giants, including Amazon and Apple, have more than $100 billion in tax avoidance in the past 10 years

According to December 3, the "tax gap" of the six major technology giants totaled more than US$100 billion. Fair Tax Mark is a UK agency that provides good tax practice certification for businesses, which evaluates the global tax payments between 2010 and 2019. It studied the tax reserves of the above six technology giants (i.e. the amount of tax reserves reserved by companies in their financial reports) and compared them with the actual taxes paid. The researchers found that the gap between the tax reserves of the six tech giants and the tax they actually paid reached $100.2 billion over the past 10 years. (E-commerce News)

6. Qutoutiao's Q3 revenue was 1.407 billion yuan, higher than market expectations

Qutoutiao released its third quarter financial report for 2019. The financial report showed that Qutoutiao was 1.407 billion yuan in the third quarter, with the market expectation of 1.393 billion yuan, 977.3 billion yuan in the same period last year, and the net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders was 892 million yuan, while the loss was 1.055 billion yuan in the same period last year. In addition, Qutoutiao's comprehensive quarterly average monthly active users was 134 million, an increase of 105.3% year-on-year. The average daily active users in the comprehensive quarter was 42.1 million, a year-on-year increase of 97.7% (YoE)

7. Facebook speaks to antitrust agencies: Don't think of data as oil-like goods

According to foreign media reports, Nick Clegg, Facebook's vice president of global affairs and communication, said on the same day that antitrust agencies should be cautious and should not treat data like other monopoly products, and should consider the complexity of data being saved and shared. "We think the issue of attitude towards data is worthy of deep thinking." Clegg said that when relevant institutions consider the competitive model in the data field, they need to "redefine the old concept" and "stop tying data and other finite resources into the same category. Some resources have non-renewable characteristics, but data is not." (The Paper)

8. Tencent CONTECH Partner Program is released, providing 1.5 billion creative funds next year

Tencent News has released the Tencent ConTech Partner Program, covering the Tencent News Knowledge Officer Program, the Star Program and the TOP Program. The platform will support knowledge-based content creation through traffic support, amount subsidies, value-added services, high-quality incentives, commercial monetization and other means, and support new and potential authors. In 2020, Tencent News will provide content partners with 1.5 billion yuan in content creation funding support and 10 billion yuan in monthly traffic support, and at the same time upgrade a more three-dimensional content creator service system. (Blue Whale TMT)

9. Luo Yonghao said at the "Old Man and the Sea" black technology press conference that he is no longer restricting the consumption list

On December 3, Luo Yonghao said at the "Old Man and the Sea" black technology press conference that he is no longer on the restricted consumption list. (Titanium Media)

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10. eBay will collect 15% of GST on New Zealand's low-value import orders

According to December 3, eBay recently issued an announcement stating that from December 1, 2019, for low-value New Zealand imported goods no more than 1,000 New Zealand dollars, eBay will collect 15% of the GST and pay it to the New Zealand tax authorities. It is reported that this measure is expected to bring more than US$200 million in tax revenue to the New Zealand government by 2022. (E-commerce News)

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