#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on July 10] Zhang Yong released his first letter to shareholders after being chairman of Alibaba; Liu Shuopei, head of Tencent Live Business: Merchants should actively try live videos to sell goods; JD Logistics and Zongxing Technology reached a strategic cooperation to plan the future smart property market; Yu Yu: He has submitted a personal safety protection order to the court and call for reconsideration to not smear couples in entrepreneurship; Amazon plans to invest US$100 million to retain key Zoox employees...

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1. Taobao data: Nearly 2 million people searched for "College Entrance Examination Decompression" a week before the college entrance examination
According to reports on July 9, Taobao data shows that since May, the number of people searching for "relieving stress in college entrance examinations" on Taobao has increased by 40% month-on-month. The week before the college entrance examination, the number of people searched reached nearly 2 million. In addition, as early as the quarter before the exam, the cumulative transactions of Taobao and Tmall's "voluntary application" courses have reached 40,000 orders. (E-commerce News)
2. After Zhang Yong became the chairman of Alibaba, he issued his first letter to shareholders.
36Kr learned that Alibaba Chairman Zhang Yong issued a letter to shareholders stating: Our next goal is to serve 1 billion Chinese consumers, achieve a consumption scale of RMB 10 trillion on the Alibaba platform, and to fully move towards globalization based on this. We hope to achieve this goal as soon as possible within the next five years. In a longer period of time, we hope to serve 2 billion consumers around the world, create 100 million jobs, and help more than 10 million small and medium-sized enterprises make profits by 2036. (36Kr)
3. Liu Shuopei, head of Tencent Live Business: Merchants should actively try live videos to sell goods
July 9th news, recently, Tencent Live Business Director Liu Shuopei said in the live e-commerce open class at Tencent Live x Chaos University that live video streaming is a major trend in the next 5-10 years. Merchants should actively try a new marketing form of video streaming, pay attention to the conversion, repurchase and fission effects generated by the connection between private domain traffic and users. Liu Shuopei also revealed that from July 20 this year, Tencent Live will start the free live streaming sales mode. (E-commerce News)
4. JD Logistics and Zongxing Technology reach strategic cooperation to plan the future smart property market
July 9th news, JD Logistics and Zongxing Technology recently reached a strategic cooperation. The two parties will give full play to their respective advantages and cooperate in the fields of smart property product co-creation and business channel resource sharing, and work together to make efforts in the smart property management market. According to JD.com, the two parties will also jointly incubate a set of intelligent property products and platforms that can meet standard property management scenarios and personalized business needs, and will be widely used in smart property service scenarios such as hotels, residential buildings, factories, etc. It is understood that Zongxing Technology was founded in 2013 and is invested by JD Huihe and other companies. It is a supplier focusing on low-power Internet of Things technologies and solutions. (E-commerce News)
5. Tencent enters AI new drug research and development: launches artificial intelligence drug discovery platform Yunshen Smart Pharmaceutical
On July 9, Tencent Chief Operating Officer Ren Yuxin revealed at the opening ceremony of the "World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2020 Cloud Summit" in Shanghai that Tencent recently launched the artificial intelligence drug discovery platform "Yunshen Intelligence Pharmaceutical", which is fully open to scientific researchers. Tencent has been exploring the application of artificial intelligence technology in medical care, and has been involved in many fields such as auxiliary diagnosis, imaging, and pathology. For example, at the beginning of the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, emergency special CT equipment equipped with "Tencent Miying" AI was put into use in local hospitals in Hubei, providing doctors with auxiliary diagnostic references. (Penguin)
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6. It is said that Weibo Video Account will be launched this week, spending more than 300 million yuan to supplement content creators
It was learned from insiders that the Weibo Video Account, which is undergoing internal testing, is planned to be fully launched within this week, and Weibo will also start a replacement again, and will invest a lot of 3 billion yuan in cash and a portion of billions of dollars in traffic resources to subsidize content creators in the next year. The video account is positioned as an S-level project (highest level) within Weibo. During the Rockets' internal test, some bloggers have obtained the video number identity. (interface)
7. Yu Yu: A personal safety protection order has been submitted to the court to review and call on not to slander couples in entrepreneurship
July 9th news, today, in response to the media's suggestions on the "Li Guoqing and Yu Yu case", Dangdang Chairman Yu Yu responded that the court recently rejected her application for restrictive order against Li Guoqing, and his lawyer has once again submitted a review of the personal safety protection order in the Dongcheng Court of Beijing. She also called on the outside world not to discredit couples from entrepreneurship and companies with shareholder disputes. (Phoenix Technology)
8. Bloomberg: ByteDance evaluates changes in TikTok's company structure and considers overseas headquarters
A Beijing ByteDance spokesman said Thursday that the company is seeking to adjust the corporate structure of TikTok's overseas version of TikTok and set up an overseas headquarters for it. TikTok is still in the early stages of establishing its headquarters, people familiar with the matter said. Previously, the company said that its five largest offices are located in Los Angeles, New York, London, Dublin and Mumbai. (Bloomberg)
9. Forbes released the 2020 Korean Rich List, Samsung Lee Kun-hee ranked first
Today, Forbes released the 2020 Korean Rich List. The total wealth of the 50 South Korean top wealthy people is $110.8 billion, almost unchanged from last year's $110 billion. The threshold for being on the list fell from $855 million a year ago to $610 million. The wealth of 29 people on the list has declined. Samsung Electronics Lee Kun-hee ranks first on the list with a net worth of US$17.3 billion. (Europe)
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10. Amazon plans to invest $100 million to retain key Zoox employees
On July 10, foreign media reports showed that Amazon plans to set up at least $100 million in stock rewards to retain more than 900 employees of self-driving car startup Zoox. Last month, Amazon launched an offer to Zoox. Amazon is allegedly likely to give up the deal if most of its key employees cannot be retained. (Sina Technology)
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