Laogao E-commerce News [June 29 E-commerce Morning News Brief]

Laogao E-commerce News [June 29 E-commerce Morning News Brief]

1. Hammer hugged Alibaba's thigh and revealed that it had pledged part of its equity to Alibaba

On June 28, an industry insider today revealed to iHeima that the founder of Hammer Technology Luo Yonghao has pledged some of his shares to Alibaba (China) Network Technology Co., Ltd. through equity pledge. The data also shows that Luo Yonghao's shareholding ratio has dropped from the previous 56.3% to 28.46%, and 27.84% of the equity is likely to be pledged to Alibaba.

2. AliExpress’s self-revealed platform data: This year, independent buyers will reach 100 million

According to June 28, AliExpress recently released a platform data. The data showed that in 2015, 34 million independent overseas buyers had already shopped on AliExpress, and this year, the number of buyers of AliExpress will reach 100 million.

3. China-Russia cross-border logistics adds troops: SF Express International special offer to open routes to Russia

On June 28, China-Russia cross-border e-commerce logistics services have added another member: Recently, SF Express International has launched a route from mainland China to Russia. In the first quarter of 2016, Russian residents' cross-border online shopping consumption reached 70 billion rubles. Nearly 50% of Russians’ online shopping payments are completed on Chinese e-commerce platforms, the highest among all countries. In the cross-border logistics market segment of Russia, SF Express has successively launched international small packages, international standard express, international e-commerce delivery, overseas warehouse and other services according to the different prices, timeliness and weight requirements of its customers.

4. Taobao launches "Creation Festival" in July to reveal the communities behind those divine stores

According to June 29, Taobao recently announced that it will launch the "Taobao Creation Festival" in the summer vacation of young people (late July). At that time, it will not only be online where Alibaba is best at, but also hold an offline "big party" at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition Center. It is revealed that the "Ten Thousand People Party" of the Creation Festival invited 72 Taobao "Stock Store" owners. These young people have many "god-level" characters in their respective circles. Each "god-store" has countless fans, and the "soul adhesive" that brings them together may be a custom skateboard, a pair of hand-painted sneakers or a figure.

5. The urban online truck-hailing platform with legal status in the industry is launched

On June 28, Hangzhou, Zhejiang held a press conference on the innovation of the model of online trucks in Hangzhou. Bartext, a subsidiary of Chuanhua Logistics Group, received the operation license issued by the Hangzhou Transportation Management Department and became a city online truck platform with legal status in the industry.

6. Huitongda raises 300 million yuan in refinancing, with sales expected to exceed 16 billion this year

On June 28, rural e-commerce Huitongda recently received another direct investment of 300 million yuan from well-known institutions. It is reported that from June 2015 to June 2016, the company has successively received RMB 1.3 billion in investment from several institutions including Coastal Capital, Huaxia Life Insurance, Huasheng Capital, Xintianyu and Jiangsu Province Gaotou. The person in charge of Huitongda revealed that by providing specific goods and services to township couples' wife stores, Huitongda's current sales performance doubles every year, and its sales are expected to reach 16 billion yuan in 2016.

7. Didi Chuxing has established a 100 million special fund to support the integrated development of taxi online car-hailing

On June 28, Didi Chuxing held the "Symposium on the Integrated Development of Taxi and Online Car-hailing". Didi Chuxing will invest 100 million yuan to establish a taxi and online car-hailing integrated development fund to support the integrated development of taxi and online car-hailing. This fund will be used for taxi service upgrade subsidies, caring for drivers and commending advanced drivers.

8. Baidu unmanned vehicles plan to be commercialized for five years in three years

According to June 29, during the 2016 Summer Davos Forum held in Tianjin, Baidu President Zhang Yaqin said in an exclusive interview with reporters that Baidu will make the unmanned vehicle project its future focus in the future, and plans to be commercialized for three years and for five years. Zhang Yaqin introduced that the technical core of Baidu's autonomous driving car project is the so-called "Baidu Auto Brain", which includes four major modules: high-precision map, positioning, perception, intelligent decision-making and control. Among them, the high-precision map collected and produced by Baidu independently records complete three-dimensional road information and can realize vehicle positioning at centimeter-level accuracy.

9. Microsoft may launch the 10th anniversary update of Win on August 2, with stronger stylus support

According to reports on June 29, the first major update for Windows 10 may be released on August 2. Microsoft posted a title-only news on its official blog earlier today: "Microsoft announcements Windows 10 Anniversary Update available Aug. 2" (Microsoft announced Windows 10 Anniversary Update available Aug. 2) but the news was quickly removed.

10. Taiwanese chip supplier says Apple orders are more conservative than in previous years

According to foreign media reports, news from Taiwanese chip supplier ASE revealed that as a well-known customer of the company, Apple orders chips from them more conservatively than in previous years. Previously, Japanese media reported that ASE predicts that the number of orders received by Apple may decrease in the second half of this year.

360 privatization completion time was postponed by two months to mid-August

According to June 28, Qihoo 360 announced today that the privatization consortium expects the privatization transaction of 360 to be completed before mid-August 2016. This means that the transaction completion time is expected to be delayed by two months compared to the initial plan.