E-commerce Morning News on December 24

　　#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on December 24] Foreign media: ByteDance's Tik Tok is looking for a global headquarters; JD responds to the logistics department's IPO: no comments; Moutai China Liquor Culture City implements online appointments to sell wine to strictly prevent scalpers from selling; Kuaishou fires employees of leaking Spring Festival Gala marketing plan; Apple launches Christmas "flash delivery" service for two hours to deliver...

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　　1. Alibaba releases the first domestic charity standard

　　According to December 24, Alibaba released the "Public Welfare Evaluation Guidelines" yesterday, which is the first standard in China to measure the duration of volunteer service and the value of public welfare behavior. This standard was jointly drafted and formulated by Alibaba, experts in the public welfare industry and experts in the field of standardization, and unified measurement of offline volunteer services and online Internet charity value, providing a unified standard reference for the value of public welfare behavior. According to the standards for charity, 1 hour offline volunteer service = 1 charity, 200ml of blood donation once 1 free of charge = 4 charity, 1 tree planted alone in Ant Forest = 1 charity... (E-commerce News)

　　2. Foreign media: Tik Tok, a subsidiary of ByteDance, seeks global headquarters

　　According to foreign media reports, people familiar with the matter said ByteDance is considering setting up a global headquarters for its popular video sharing app TikTok outside China. Singapore is a city that ByteDance is considering, while other possible locations include London and Dublin, and there is no shortlist of any of the U.S. cities, people familiar with the matter said. TikTok does not currently have a headquarters, although its top executives work in Shanghai. (Sina Technology)

　　3. JD.com launches the "Hydrogen Boat" platform to protect merchants' digital assets

　　On December 23, the "Hydrogen Boat" digital asset property rights service platform jointly launched by JD Group and China Culture Media Group, a directly affiliated to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, will be put into trial operation, and will officially provide services to digital content owners across the network in February 2020. "Hydrogen Boat" is a one-stop service platform for confirming, protecting and trading of intellectual property rights of digital assets. It can integrate the full-chain services in the transfer of digital assets into one platform and build a complete service system. (E-commerce News)

　　4. JD.com responds that the logistics department will IPO: no comment

　　According to foreign media reports, JD.com's logistics department has held preliminary discussions with several banks on potential overseas IPOs, which may raise US$8-10 billion. JD.com's logistics division aims to seek a valuation of at least $30 billion. In response, JD.com responded that it would not comment. (China News Service)

　　5. Sohu Simultaneous 3.0 is launched, adding visual and thinking skills

　　Recently, the first simultaneous transmission system with multimodal cognitive ability - Sogou simultaneous transmission 3.0 was used at the Geek Park Innovation Conference. Based on Sogou's original "context engine", Sogou Simultaneous Translation 3.0 takes "multimodal" and "independent learning" as the core, adding visual and thinking capabilities, allowing machines to not only know how to listen, but also have the ability to see, understand and reason for the first time. (E-commerce News)

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　　6. Maotai China Liquor Culture City implements online reservations to sell wine, strictly prevent scalpers from selling

　　According to December 23, today, Maotai China Liquor Culture City announced new wine purchase regulations on its official WeChat, aiming to strengthen prevention of scalpers. According to the new regulations, from now on, tourists will be allowed to purchase Moutai in China Liquor Culture City and make online reservations. Each person can purchase Moutai once every 30 days. The wine is unboxed and shipped without external boxes, and no return or exchange will be given without quality problems. For those suspected or confirmed to be speculative, China Liquor Culture City will use the method of refusing to sell or notifying the police station to crack down on it; in addition, you must hold tickets to buy wine, but it must be determined based on the sales situation on the same day. (E-commerce News)

　　7. Apple launches two-hour delivery service for Christmas

　　On December 24, Apple recently announced that it will launch a special two-hour "flash delivery" service for Christmas in the United States, with product coverage categories including Apple Watch, iPad, iPhone and Mac. The place to place an order must be near the Apple Store, and the time is before 4 pm on December 24. (36Kr)

　　8. Kuaishou fired employees of leaked Spring Festival Gala marketing plan

　　On December 24, according to media reports, an employee of the business analysis group of Kuaishou Business Analysis Department was terminated for suspected leaking Kuaishou Spring Festival Gala plan, K3 strategy, e-commerce data and strategies to the media, and all options were recovered. Kuaishou has no response to this yet. Previously, on November 20, Kuaishou announced that it had reached an exclusive interactive cooperation with the 2020 CCTV Spring Festival Gala to carry out this year's Spring Festival Gala red envelope interaction. (E-commerce News)

　　9. Meituan, Ele.me and 7 takeaway companies signed safety commitments

　　On December 23, the Traffic Administration of the Ministry of Public Security guided the China Federation of Logistics and Procurement to hold a traffic safety and law-abiding commitment activity in Beijing. The heads of seven companies including Meituan Takeout, Ele.me, Flash Delivery, SF Express City Express, Dada-JD Home Delivery, Dianwoda, UU Running Errands jointly signed the "Commitment Letter for Traffic Safety and Law-abiding by Instant Delivery (Take-Advantage) Enterprises", promising to the whole society to implement the main responsibility for traffic safety, optimize delivery management, and prevent and reduce time-abiding delivery. More than 200 representatives of delivery staff signed the "Commitment Letter for Traffic Safety and Law-abiding by Delivery Staff". (Penguin)

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　　10. Foreign media: The products recommended by the "Amazon Select" label are not credible

　　According to a report on December 24, Amazon uses the "Amazon Select" label for certain products that are unsafe, incorrectly marked and violate its policies. The tag appears on dozens of products that are prohibited, do not meet safety standards and have fake security certificates. This means Amazon’s product recommendation engine is not always trustworthy. (E-commerce News)

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