This year, for the first time, adults in China will spend more time with their mobile devices than they will watching TV, according to eMarketer’s latest forecast. Adults in China will spend 2 hours, 39 minutes a day on mobile devices in 2018, up 11.1% over last year, accounting for 41.6% of their daily media […]
Alibaba has introduced a car vending machine on Tmall, its online marketplace application, which allows consumers in China to choose from 100 Ford cars for a test drive. The ‘Super Test-Drive Center’ is located in Guangzhou and consumers can sign up on the Tmall or Taobao app to pick up the selected car through an […]
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd announced it would buy the remaining shares of Ele.me, a major platform in China’s food delivery market, as it competes with Tencent Holdings Ltd services for offline consumers. Alibaba and affiliate Ant Small & Micro Financial Services Group Co Ltd currently own approximately 43 percent of Ele.me, and the […]
When you’re running on a treadmill like a compulsive little hamster, or just going about your daily business, you may imagine yourself as the star of your own modern Super Mario-style video game, bounding across a brightly colored screen and leaping dexterously over obstacles to rack up points. But lucky folks in China have the […]
Chinese social media network WeChat, which is used for everything from chatting with friends to booking travel and making payments, has reached a billion user accounts globally, reports the Financial Times. The sheer number of accounts demonstrates the app’s dominance, though it’s important to note that user accounts means the number of accounts, not individual […]
Online retail has long lamented the smartphone visit-to-revenue gap. The fact is, it remains a challenge. But every cloud has a silver lining: That gap is also shrinking. According to “A Mobile-First World,” a new report from Adobe Digital Insights (ADI) that examined data from Adobe Analytics, smartphone visits are increasing in value at a […]
Chinese technology giant Tencent is leading a $115-million, or Rs 740-crore, financing in music streaming service Gaana. Times Internet, Gaana’s parent, will also make further investments in the service, a company statement issued on Tuesday said. Times Internet is a part of the Times Group which publishes The Times of India. The maiden external financing […]
Over 90% of Chinese tourists would use mobile payment overseas if given the option according to Nielsen and Alipay‘s Outbound Chinese Tourism and Consumption Trends: 2017 survey. Meanwhile, 65% of Chinese tourists already use mobile payment platforms while abroad, which is more than six times that of non-Chinese tourists (11%). According to the report, Chinese […]
AT&T and Verizon have conceded that phones won’t be available in time for the launch of fifth-generation mobile service this year, and plan instead to offer 5G through portable hotspots called pucks. “I would expect that there are a range of handsets available in 2019 and some of those will be in the first half […]
JD.com, one of China’s biggest eCommerce retailers, has launched an accelerator program which will focus on the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technologies. The AI Catapult program, which begins in March, will partner with blockchain startups to build new business, and create and test real-world applications of their technologies. Members of the program […]