RetailTechNews’ weekly Amazon Watch brings you some of the company’s biggest moves from the past seven days, analysing how the giant is revolutionising the retail space. In this week’s edition: Amazon to enter Vietnam in challenge to Alibaba; Sending money [...]

Alibaba Group is back in the spotlight this week with its move into another retail sector in China – this time, in home improvement and furnishing. The e-commerce giant said it was forking out ¥5.54bn (£625.91m) to acquire a 15% [...]

This week, Alibaba reports a 56% climb in revenue for the quarter ended 31 December, 2017, which it says is fuelled by a continued focus on the company's 'new retail' strategy. The Chinese e-commerce giant chalked up revenue totalling ¥83.03bn [...]

The recent pace of change in the payment solutions space has been rapid. From contactless payments, to mobile wallets, and now payment via QR codes, these advancements have led to talk of cashless societies. This edition of RetailTechNews’ Now & [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: China's BAT amongst five platforms to grab ad spend growth; More AU consumers tuning into radio; Japan [...]

This week, we put the spotlight back on Alibaba as the Chinese e-commerce giant looks to extend its industry knowhow to other Asia-Pacific markets. Malaysia, for instance, sent 30 college students to Alibaba's global headquarters in Hangzhou, China, where they [...]

Alibaba is back in this week's focus with a new partnership that will see its A.I. Labs business unit work on an Internet of Things (IoT) project to bring more intelligence into homes. The Chinese e-commerce operator said it inked [...]

This week, Alibaba has announced plans to expand its network of Hema supermarkets with another 30 locations in Beijing, up from the current five. Scheduled to open by end-2018, the new physical stores would beef up deliveries for some 1.5 [...]

This week, we kick off the new year with a look at how Alibaba is adding merchants to its ecosystem by modernising China's convenience stores as well as arming local prisoners with e-commerce skillsets. The Chinese online retailer runs a programme [...]

Once a company that had just one product on its inventory, SunMoon is discovering a whole new world of possibilities that an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system can bring. It is, however, taking the time to ensure all processes and [...]