On Nov. 11, millions of Chinese consumers are expected to go online to shop during an event called the 11.11 Shopping Festival. To those in the West who have heard of it, this annual 24-hour sale, ...

Black Friday? No. Cyber Monday? Nope. Prime Day? Absolutely not. The world's biggest shopping event happens in China each year - and is called Singles' Day. Originally a holiday to celebrate being ...

Chinese online shopping platforms have taken control of roughly half the internet retail business in multiple Southeast Asian nations, marking a major shift in the region’s digital commerce landscape, ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Alice Zhang, a 29-year-old marketer in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, has spent only roughly half what she did last year during the “Singles’ Day” online shopping festival, ...

Africa’s largest e-commerce platform has discovered an unexpected weapon in its battle against Chinese shopping giants: embracing the very merchants that power its competitors while capitalizing on ...

A major shopping event in China showed sales improved, but not by enough to dispel concerns that tepid consumer spending will continue to drag on the economy. Sales across e-commerce platforms ...

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. plans to link its flagship online shopping and travel services to its AI app, taking its biggest ...

WTR investigates how the ecosystem of Chinese shopping agents – platforms widely promoted on pro-counterfeit forums and social media pages – is evolving. Register for free to receive our newsletter, ...