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...It is set to close its Amazon China store in July, some 15 years after it opened it, after competition from Alibaba and JD.com, another leading Chinese company, squeezed its business volumes....
...Chinese ecommerce group JD.com, which is pursuing a secondary listing in Hong Kong, is spending $100m in a tie-up with appliance store operator Gome Retail to expand its physical presence....
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...The company’s subsidiaries AliExpress.com, which targets customers in Russia and Brazil, and Lazada, which is based in Singapore and operates sites across south-east Asia, make up just 5 per cent of Alibaba...
...Amazon has captured higher-spending customers with last year’s launch of its Prime service, which offers speedy delivery for a flat annual fee, while its Global Store offering has dramatically increased...
...Core commerce and logistics Alibaba.com, the original platform, along with Taobao, AliExpress, 1688.com, TMall.com and Tmall Global provides portals for business-to-business sales and for brands to sell...
...So far, Roskomnadzor has named Ebay, PayPal, Chinese competitor AliExpress, IT gadget vendors Lenovo and Samsung, online travel site Booking.com and cab-hailing service Uber as having agreed to move data...
...Alibaba last year launched a local site for its AliExpress business....
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