Morning information:
1. Huabei responded to a woman's online purchase of more than 200 yuan, but was deducted more than 3,000 yuan;
2. The number of Douyin live broadcast rooms under Oriental Selection has increased to eight;
3. Kuaishou Ideal Home officially launched the Super Ideal City Plan;
4. TikTok Shop full-management return to school season report: GMV sales in the UK market increased by 145%;
5. Amazon is reportedly negotiating to become an anchor investor for Arm's listing;
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1. Douyin e-commerce conducts special treatment for merchants’ false reporting behavior
On August 8, Douyin e-commerce issued a notice saying that the platform's recent investigation found that some merchants initiated false reports on normal consumers of the platform at the reporting center through forged logistics evidence, unboxing videos, etc., which seriously infringed on the normal rights and interests of consumers and disrupted the platform's operating order. In order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of merchants and consumers, standardize the platform's order, and maintain the good ecological environment of the platform, the platform will conduct special governance on false reports from now on. (Beijing Business Daily)
2. Dongfang Select's Douyin live broadcast room has increased to eight
On August 8, according to the Paper, Oriental Selection has added two accounts, "Oriental Selection Flavor Life" and "Oriental Selection Store" on the Douyin platform. The new account certification information is "Oriental Selection Technology Co., Ltd.", and belongs to the same company as the six live broadcast rooms of Oriental Selection. This is the addition of the "Oriental Selection to See the World" account in November 2022, and the Douyin matrix "members" will be added 9 months later. The "Oriental Selected Flavor Life" account has now opened a product window and has not yet been put on the shelves; while the Douyin store of the "Oriental Selected Store" account has 95 Oriental Selected self-operated products. (Pengpai News)
3. Kuaishou Ideal Home officially launches the Super Ideal City Plan
On August 9, the Kuaishou Ideal Home City Ceremony Changchun Station and Running Plan Launch Conference was held. At the meeting, Kuaishou Ideal Home announced the official launch of the Super Ideal City Plan, which will target the first batch of key strategic cooperative cities, increase a series of huge support resources such as operation, traffic, products, influence, and new model exploration, and jointly build trustworthy live home purchase service scenarios with more real estate companies, institutions, and anchors, so that more home buyers can find their own ideal home. In addition, Kuaishou Idealer also announced the establishment of cooperation with Xinfa Real Estate Group to jointly train professional real estate anchor agents and explore new models of live house selling and online marketing and transactions for new houses. (36Kr)
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4. Xi'an: TFBOYS concert drives 416 million tourism revenue
According to the news on August 9, according to Xi'an, TFBOYS's "Ten Years of Appointment" concert was held at the Xi'an Olympic Sports Center Stadium. According to third-party sample survey statistics, before and after this performance, the number of online early bookings for accommodation in Xi'an increased significantly year-on-year, with the total number of travel orders from August 6 to 7 increasing by 738% year-on-year; ticket revenue was 35.76 million yuan, directly driving 416 million yuan of tourism revenue. (Upstream News)
5. Meituan data: More than 24,000 milk tea shops participated in the donation of 202 rural children's playgrounds within one year
On August 8, Meituan launched the Beginning of Autumn Milk Tea Carnival, attracting hundreds of merchants to participate. Meituan data shows that in the past year, a total of 24,831 milk tea stores have participated in Meituan's "Rural Children's Playground" charity plan, generating more than 150 million love orders, and donating nearly 120,000 30 cm square spliced floors, which were laid on 202 rural children's playgrounds. (Guizhou Metropolis Daily)
6. Ali Damo Academy launches early on the 2024 school recruitment and recruitment exceeds previous years
On August 8, Alibaba DAMO Academy started the 2024 campus recruitment ahead of schedule, opening nearly 20 types of jobs to fresh graduates at home and abroad, including computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning systems, operation optimization and other directions, most of which are related to AI. Moreover, the DAMO Academy also expects candidates to have excellent engineering implementation capabilities and have a lot of practical experience in AI models. In addition to AI positions, DAMO Academy also opens research positions such as new computing architectures and fault-tolerant quantum computing systems. It has a long-term goal and hopes to build a next-generation general computing architecture to reserve future-oriented strategic technologies. (financial)
7. Huabei responded to women's online shopping of more than 200 yuan, but was deducted more than 3,000 yuan.
On August 9, in response to the hot search #Women's online shopping of more than 200 yuan but was deducted by Huabei for more than 3,000 yuan, @Huabei official Weibo recently issued a response saying that Alipay and Huabei technical teams have jointly conducted a check with the merchant platform to confirm that it is the user's active consumption payment. (Huabei)
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8. Amazon is reportedly negotiating to become an anchor investor for Arm listing
On August 9, people familiar with the matter revealed that Amazon is working with other technology companies as Arm Ltd. The IPO anchor investors have negotiated that Arm's listing may raise up to $10 billion. Arm is expected to go public next month, with Amazon being one of several tech companies that have discussed with Arm supporting its IPO, people familiar with the matter said, who asked to be anonymous for non-public discussions. (Sina)
9. TikTok Shop full-hosted return to school season report: GMV sales in the UK market increased by 145%
On August 8, TikTok Shop's return-to-school season promotion held by the UK and Saudi markets, which have opened a fully managed model, has officially come to an end recently. During this return-to-school season promotion, the platform achieved new breakthroughs in various sales. According to official data, GMV sales in the UK market increased by 145%, order volume increased by 175%, and the number of goods sold increased by 134%; the results of the Saudi market were even more impressive, with GMV sales increased by 198%, order volume increased by 226%, and the number of goods sold increased by 188%. (Sohu.com)
10. TikTok is forming an e-commerce team in the United States
According to reports on August 8, TikTok is recruiting related positions in the United States to build an e-commerce team. The positions recruited include the "Second-hand Luxury Sales" operation director, and he formed a team focused on second-hand luxury sales; in addition, he is also recruiting a sales manager. This shows that TikTok hopes to become a one-stop shopping platform, which not only covers local mid-to-high-end brands and focuses on cost-effective full hosting, but also includes the growing sales of second-hand luxury goods. (Driving China)
