Laogao E-commerce Newspaper on October 14th

1. Report says that Asia has a billionaire every 3 days, more than half of which come from China

According to reports on October 14, it was reported that Asia is born almost every three days, and China alone accounts for more than half of the 113 new billionaires in Asia. The average age of new billionaires in mainland China is 53 years old. In the past six months, there are 11 new billionaires in Hong Kong and India.

2. The "Alipay Collection" function is released

On October 14, Alipay announced through its official WeChat that it officially released the "Alipay Collection" function. Merchants can access Alipay with zero threshold. No development is required, and users can directly scan the code to pay. Yibang Power Network learned that merchants only need three steps to enable this function. The first step is to log in to open.alipay.com to enter the marketing management center, find "Alipay Collection" and sign the contract; the second step is to obtain the employee code and download it. Print the downloaded QR code picture and take it to the merchant to help activate "Alipay Collection"; finally, the merchant uses the Alipay App to scan the employee code, then scan the merchant collection code, and after completion, paste the merchant code on the counter and you can start collecting money.

3. The gameplay of Alipay 1212 Carnival Events has been revealed, and there will be three major upgrades this year

On October 13, at the special Alipay session of the Yunqi Conference, Ruan Dan (Hua Ming Xiuchun), a senior operation expert at Alipay, introduced the specific operating rules of this year's 1212 Carnival. She pointed out that this year's 1212 will have three major upgrades, and the scale and gameplay will be significantly different from the previous two years, and the event will start until December 10 and last for 3 days until December 12. The first is scale upgrade. The 1212 event will start from the previous 12th to the 10th, lasting for three days and three nights. The second is open upgrade. Relying on Alipay's open capabilities, 1212 will be recruited from all service providers in the industry; the third is gameplay upgrade. This year's event format will continue to use a 50% discount, but at the same time, it will provide users with value benefits and discounted Easter eggs.

4. The China Consumers Association has made a statement: I hope that e-commerce companies on Double 11 will not engage in false propaganda or misleading prices! !

According to the news on October 13, the China Consumers Association stated that they will conduct a survey on the categories of products with relatively large sales on major e-commerce platforms during the "Double 11" period in 2015, and monitor the price changes of related products from mid-October to late November 2016. We hope that e-commerce platforms and related operators will strictly control product quality, not conduct false publicity, and not misleading prices!

5. Ant Financial and Alibaba Cloud announce "A Cloud Plan": To challenge high-end technology in Europe and the United States

On October 13, at the 2016 Hangzhou Yunqi Conference held today, Ant Financial Chief Technology Officer Cheng Li announced the launch of the "An Cloud Plan": upgrading the financial cloud strategy, and achieving three major upgrades in Alibaba's basic technology, financial core service components and scenario connection capabilities by comprehensively integrating the financial technology and service capabilities of Ant Financial and Alibaba, and plans to serve 50,000 financial institutions around the world in the future.

6. Huawei issues a statement denied entering the automobile manufacturing industry

According to news on October 13, there are recent media reports that Huawei will enter the field of automobile manufacturing. Huawei stated that the company has no plans to enter the automobile manufacturing industry, nor has it plans to launch Huawei-branded cars. Huawei said in a statement that Huawei focuses on the ICT field and advocates extensive cooperation with automobile manufacturers to provide connectivity and interoperability solutions for vehicle platforms. I believe that with the help of the next generation of mobile networks, it will greatly promote innovation and efficiency improvement, promote the healthy development of the information society, and ultimately benefit the entire automobile industry and consumers.

7. Mobike completes a new round of financing, Tencent joins the shared bicycle

On October 14, the shared bicycle platform Mobike confirmed that it has completed a new round of financing in the near future. It is understood that the investors in this round of financing include Hillhouse, Warburg Pincus, Tencent, Sequoia, Qiming Venture Capital, Bertelsmann, Yue Capital, Panda Capital, Xiangfeng Investment and Innovation Works, and have also received personal investment from Meituan founder and CEO Wang Xing.

8. Amazon will recruit 120,000 temporary workers to welcome the peak Christmas shopping season

According to news on October 14, Amazon said today that this year's Christmas shopping peak season will create more than 120,000 seasonal jobs for the United States, mainly concentrated in fulfillment centers, sorting centers and customer service centers. By comparison, Amazon created 100,000 seasonal jobs in the United States during the peak Christmas shopping season last year. Amazon said today that of the 100,000 temporary workers last year, 14,000 have been converted to full-time employees after Christmas. Amazon also said that more people will be converted to full-time employees this year.

9. What are the credits for video marketing? The orders for the cute shop exceeded 1.5 million during the Double Tenth Period

On October 14, the mobile social e-commerce platform Mengdian recently announced that during the Double Ten promotion, the platform's order volume exceeded 1.5 million orders, and the specific transaction amount has not been announced yet. Mengdian revealed that fresh food and food are the main categories of consumers on Mengdian platform purchases, accounting for 50% of the total orders. In addition, the 5,000-person group in the Mengdian Super Group completed 200,000 orders; among the flash sale groups, the inventory of seasonal fresh food will be sold out as soon as 2 minutes after opening a group; the sales of goods in overseas shopping groups increased significantly.

10. Tencent invested in WeDoctor has caused trouble again and wants to build "Starbucks, the medical world"

On October 14, WeDoctor Group, an Internet medical company that Tencent has a stake, has begun to make great strides toward offline. Its general practice center will open in Hangzhou in December this year, and plans to establish 100 chain general practice centers within five years, saying that it will build China's "Health Starbucks in the Medical World". It is reported that the WeDoctor General Practice Center is a physical medical institution built by WeDoctor Group, and is under the responsibility of He Chao, senior vice president of WeDoctor. The general practice center mainly provides online diagnosis and treatment, remote consultation, offline medical services, and other services, and has departments such as general practice, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, dentistry, traditional Chinese medicine, dermatology, psychology, laboratory and medical imaging departments.

11. The former CEO of Autohome Qin Zhi and other buyer groups withdrew their privatization offer

On October 14, the company's special independent committee under the board of directors recently received a notice from the Privacy Buyers Alliance that they will withdraw the non-binding privacy offer submitted in April this year. In the notice, the Buyers Alliance said that in view of the current situation, they have decided not to continue to implement the previous privatization offer, and the Special Independent Committee formed to evaluate the privatization offer was also dissolved on October 12.

12. Tsinghua University and Ant Financial set up financial technology laboratories

According to October 14, research will be carried out in cutting-edge technology fields such as financial security, blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, and smart investment advisors in the next five years. In the future, the laboratory will conduct research in at least four fields. The two parties will conduct research in cutting-edge science and technology fields such as blockchain technology, financial ecology, and smart investment advisors, and share the research results with the whole society.