E-commerce Morning News on December 16

　　#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on December 16] Masayoshi Son denied that he decided to invest in Jack Ma in 5 minutes: It was 10 minutes, the only one who didn't think he wanted money; Yipai's 2019 report card: monthly active users are 50 million, and the annual transaction amount exceeds 1.75 trillion; Masayoshi Son's investment has been repeatedly frustrated, and major Japanese banks have intensified their concerns about SoftBank; YTO responded to "the warehouse ignited": the fire point is next to the outlet, and it has now been extinguished; more than 12 million tickets were sold on the third day of the Spring Festival ticket sales on the railway...

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　　1. Hangzhou: Cultivating cross-border e-commerce talents can receive up to one million yuan in financial support

　　In order to cultivate new business forms and models of cross-border e-commerce and vigorously develop the digital economy, the Hangzhou Municipal Government recently issued the "Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Cross-border E-commerce", encouraging universities and cross-border e-commerce platforms to carry out cross-border e-commerce talent cultivation, and a one-time financial support of no more than 1 million yuan can be provided. (Xinhuanet)

　　2. Masayoshi Son's investment has been repeatedly frustrated, and major Japanese banks are intensifying their concerns about SoftBank

　　After Masayoshi Son bailed WeWork at a high cost, executives of two of Japan's largest banking groups said privately that they were no longer as relieved about SoftBank Vision Fund as before. An executive said in mid-November that his company hopes to see a compelling WeWork turnaround plan before lending more money to SoftBank. Another bank said it was cautious about SoftBank. Both banks are involved in SoftBank’s approximately $2.7 billion in loan programs. (Sina Technology)

　　3. Microsoft develops "deep and multi-spectral" cameras that are better than Apple in some aspects

　　According to the latest disclosed technical patent, Microsoft may be developing a "deep and multi-spectral" camera internally, which is expected to be equipped on future Surface devices such as Surface Neo/Duo. Judging from the patent description, Microsoft's multispectral camera can surpass Apple's TrueDepth camera in long distances and several other aspects. The patent, titled "OBJECT RECOGNITION USING DEPTH AND MULTI-SPECTRAL CAMERA", was approved and included in the second half of 2019. Therefore, this inclusion node matches the release date of Surface Neo/Duo. (E-commerce News)

　　4. China Unicom and China Telecom open the first 5G SA joint construction and sharing commercial site in China

　　According to China Unicom last night, Guangdong Unicom and Guangdong Telecom opened the first 5G SA joint construction and shared commercial site in China. Officials said that in the construction of China Unicom Telecom's joint construction and sharing 5G boutique networks, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, Guangdong Unicom and Guangdong Telecom have simultaneously opened 5G SA joint construction and sharing commercial sites in their respective construction areas. (IT Home)

　　5. Masayoshi Son denied that he decided to invest in Jack Ma in 5 minutes: It was 10 minutes, the only one who didn't think he wanted money

　　Recently, SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son said in a conversation with Jack Ma at the University of Tokyo that he did not decide to invest in Jack Ma in 5 minutes, but in fact he should have had a chat for about 10 minutes. Jack Ma impressed him at that time and was the only person who didn't ask for money from him. (IT Home)

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　　6. Yipay's 2019 report card: monthly active users are 50 million, and the annual transaction amount exceeds 1.75 trillion

　　According to news on December 15, Luo Laifeng, general manager of Tianyi E-Commerce Co., Ltd., recently announced the operational data of Yifu; in 2019, Yifu's monthly active users were 50 million, with 230 million transactions per month, with an annual transaction amount exceeding 1.75 trillion. At present, it has connected to more than 8 million offline merchant stores such as China Resources, Yonghui, Suning Store, Wumart, and Zhongbai, as well as more than 170 online e-commerce companies such as Suning.com, JD.com, Tmall, Ele.me, COFCO Womai.com, and Meituan.

　　In addition, in 2020, Yipay will make every effort to achieve the development goal of over 65 million monthly active users, over 10 million merchant access, over 2 trillion yuan in annual transaction volume, and introducing cooperation funds of over 50 billion yuan. (E-commerce News)

　　7. Yuantong responds to "warehouse fire": the fire point is next to the outlet, and has now been extinguished

　　According to news on December 15, a video circulated on the Internet recently, suspected that the YTO warehouse was on fire. Judging from the video, the fire is relatively large, and there is a gas station not far from the fire point. In response to the above situation, YTO official issued a statement today saying that after verification, the video content was a scene of a toy factory caught fire in Qingyun County, Shandong Province on the afternoon of December 13, located next to the Yuantong outlet in Qingyun, Shandong. At present, the outlets have resumed normal operations. (E-commerce News)

　　8. More than 12 million tickets were sold on the third day of the Spring Festival ticket sales on the railway

　　On December 15th, on the 14th, the railway ticket sales entered the third day of the Spring Festival travel rush. The railway department began to sell tickets on January 12, 2020 (the 18th day of the 12th lunar month). On that day, a total of 12.26 million tickets were sold by railways nationwide, of which 10.234 million were sold by railway 12306 and 7,000 tickets were sold by telephone. Tickets sold by railway 12306 accounted for 83.5% of the total ticket sales. (interface)

　　9. More than 20 countries and regions in Europe currently choose Huawei's 5G equipment

　　Recently, Michael counted European countries that chose Huawei 5G equipment. The information shows that the number has reached 21 countries or regions, and this information has also been confirmed by Huawei Europe. Information shows that the countries or regions that have clearly stated that Huawei 5G equipment are currently selected include the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Norway, Italy, Monaco, Spain, Switzerland, Ireland, Portugal, Netherlands, Finland, Greece, Cyprus, Austria, Romania, Hungary, Turkey, Sweden, Russia and Serbia. (IT Home)

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　　10. Amazon joins the switch open source project: may subvert chip manufacturers such as Broadcom

　　On December 15, the Linux Foundation announced that Amazon will contribute to an open source software called Dent, which may help the Internet giant's brick-and-mortar store. Dent is an operating system developed for switches, the latter is hardware used to route data in a network (usually within a company or between a company and the Internet). Traditionally, this market has been dominated by large companies, such as Broadcom, which provides a large number of underlying chips and Cisco, which sells finished assembled products. By creating open source alternatives (which means anyone can access the software’s code and contribute), Amazon and its trading partners can reduce control of these companies as well as product prices. (Titanium Media)

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