29. April 2022
Last week we were very fortunate to be able to organize a care package for Web2Asia employees and our esteemed clients located in Shanghai. A huge thank you to ALDI CHINA and to the head of our food & beverage department for coordinating this effort – close to 200 packages were delivered during ongoing lockdowns in almost all parts of Shanghai was not an easy feat. Vegetables are increasingly provided by district governments, so we decided on a premium selection of protein and...
20. June 2021
2021 China June 18 6.18 E-Commerce Shopping Festival on Alibaba TMall, Tmall Global, JingDong JD and JD Worldwide
13. July 2020
Web2Asia has been awarded 5 Star Tmall Partner (TP) by Tmall Global for the year 2020. This is the highest certification level for Alibaba Partners. We are extremely thankful for our clients' and Alibabas' trust to allow this recognition.
13. January 2020
Web2Asia client ALDI last week won the fastest growing merchant award on Alibaba's ecommerce food and grocery delivery app ele.me - the primary online to offline and "New Retail" service in China.
01. March 2017
Web2Asia's CEO George Godula was recently featured by Alibaba on what Tmall Partners TP or so called Tmall Trade Partner are and how they can help foreign brands sell to Chinese consumers through E-Commerce online. All content (c) by Alibaba Group. The full Tmall Partner TP list can be found on Tmall.hk.
26. February 2014
China E-Commerce Tencent’s Video App Reach 160 million Views on Valentine’s Day Tencent’s vine-like video sharing app, Weishi, had over 160 million views on Valentine’s Day. The app allows users to make 8-second video snippets with options to add tunes and themes to the recorded content. On Valentine it had been prepped with romantical themes, such as writing “kiss” or “love” in the corner of the screen. Weishi can be shared on any Chinese SNS, but work best as embedded media in...
25. February 2014
China E-Commerce Over 100 Million Alipay Payments During Spring Festival Over 100 million Alipay payments were made during the seven-day holiday of 2014 Spring Festival, 52% of these were mobile. Meanwhile Alibaba announced that the real-name users of Alipay approached 300 million by the end of 2013, with more than 100 million users using the mobile service for most of payments. Altogether subscribers made 12.5 billion payments during 2013, totaling over CNY900 billion. Data also revealed that...
24. February 2014
China E-Commerce Alibaba May Buy AutoNavi Alibaba Group Holdings revealed that they are interested in buying Autonavi. The E-commerce enterprise has provided a non-binding proposal letter to digital map content and navigation company AutoNavi, purposing $1.1 billion to make it a wholly owned subsidiary. Currently Alibaba holds about 28% of AutoNavi’s shares. If the deal goes through, Alibaba said the goal is to improve customer service capacity by sharpening the competitiveness of AN’s map...
19. January 2011
Alibaba Group, Chinas leading e-commerce company today announced, it is planning to build a network of warehouses across China and hopes to mobilize other partners to join in this effort to create an integrated logistics platform that will help elevate the quality of service to Chinese consumers and allow merchants to meet rapidly growing domestic consumption needs. Over the medium term, Alibaba Group and its financing partners will commit between RMB20 billion and RMB30 billion (US$3.01...
18. January 2010
Taobao, the largest online shopping destination in China, has today announced the launch of the Taobao App Store and will invest RMB10 million (US$1.46 million) to foster promising independent software developers via the Taobao Open Platform (TOP) fund every year. The move comes less than 6 months after eBay opened up its market place for third-party applications last August. The Taobao App Store (http://app.taobao.com) will offer solutions created by independent developers through TOP for...