Alibaba tops Amazon as biggest e-commerce company | Xinhua
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Did I make up the tax? well, maybe you are right, it was 24% foreign investment tax, not 27, sorry for not giving you up-to-date information.
http://www.china.org.cn/english/14960.htm
And when I said I still have a Factory in China pulling Steel Bar, I wasn't lying.
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It's the company that financially dictates many indian e-commerce startups.
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No. It is a call center.
Amazon has no future.
Alibaba Beats Amazon to ANZ
Alibaba have opened an ANZ Headquarters in Melbourne with aims of strengthening Australian businesses.
By Shabab Hossain -
February 6, 2017
China’s online retail giant and number one challenger to Amazon’s online dominance, Alibaba, officially opened their first Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) headquarters in Melbourne last Saturday.
With transactions that total more than eBay and Amazon combined, Alibaba dominates the Chinese market. Worth over $200 billion, they have 434 million users on their platform which is an indication of their wide scale success.
Founder, Jack Ma, spoke about the motivation behind this move at the grand opening. They aim to increase the number of Australian products sold on their website while strengthening Australian businesses. By building the infrastructure for regional businesses, they are hoping global expansion will become possible.
The deal aims to encourage more Australian products to be exported to China with the promotion of SME’s in the state and nationally.
The potential of the Chinese market has not gone unnoticed for many ANZ business owners, with 1300 Australian and 400 New Zealand businesses using the ecommerce platforms Tmall and Tmall Global to get their own piece of the Chinese market.
Alibaba’s opening reflects the huge potential of ecommerce in the Australian market, with Amazon also rumoured to open in Australia around September 2017.
Ma reiterates this potential, citing Australia and New Zealand’s protection of the environment as a key reason for their interest in the region. This is especially prominent compared to China’s high pollution levels.
“Australia is a gold mine. The next gold mine… The clean water, the soil and the air, this is what you have, the most unique asset,” Ma explained.
However, the clean environment was not the only factor contributing to their choice of Melbourne as the location for their ANZ headquarters. The Victorian government have reportedly also provided financial supports and ‘incentives.’
Ma stated that although the support was unnecessary, he vowed to reinvest that money into promoting Australian small businesses and creating infrastructure for Australians to expand their businesses offshore.
With the environment in mind, Australian businesses have an unusual niche in the Asian market; air.
Jack Ma has large ambitions for the future of Alibaba.
“Our vision in the next 20 years is to create 100 million jobs, serve a population of 2 billion and we want to make 10 million businesses profitable on our platform.”
After opening a data centre in Sydney late last year which focused on cloud computing, Alibaba’s new headquarters marks another chapter in their international expansion.
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https://delimiter.com.au/2011/07/14/amazon-opens-australian-office/
Amazon opens Australian office
By Renai LeMay -
14/07/2011
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Global cloud computing and retail giant Amazon today told customers it had opened an Australian office with dedicated local staff to service the cloud computing market, as speculation continues to swirl that the company will also establish a new local datacentre facility to meet customer demand.
The company’s Asia-Pacific managing director of its Web Services division Shane Owenby and global chief technology officer Werner Vogels (pictured) hit Sydney today for a half-day presentation to a moderate-sized group of customers at the ritzy Sofitel Wentworth hotel in the downtown central business district. A similar event was held in Melbourne earlier in the week.
It has previously been unclear whether Amazon has dedicated staff in Australia. However, Owenby told the crowd that the company had launched a local office to support its growing Web Services (cloud computing) business. Customers had asked Amazon: “Will we see staff in Australia?” said Owenby. “The answer is yes.”
Apart from the lack of local staff, another sticking point for Australian customers looking to adopt Amazon’s services has been the lack of an Australia-based datacentre, with the closest facilities being located in Singapore and on the West Coast of the United States. Amazon’s other main facilities are located in Europe, America’s East Coast and Japan, and it operates a number of other smaller fringe facilities as part of its global content distribution network.
Earlier this week, The Australian newspaper reported that Amazon was canvassing up to three sites in Sydney for a potential new local datacentre to be set up, with a potential unveiling of such a facility by early 2012. However, at the event this afternoon, Amazon executives didn’t deliver any concrete confirmation or denial of the reported plans.
“International expansion is important,” said Owenby, noting Australia was a “key market” for Amazon. “Being a customer-centric organisation, we’ve heard from customers that they want infrastructure in Australia, it’s something that we’re interested in talking to customers about.”
Despite the discussions, Owenby pointed out that a lot of Australian customers were already using Amazon services served from existing datacentres in other regions.
Speaking after Owenby, Vogels — the key drawcard for this afternoon’s seminar — gave the audience a high-level overview of the Amazon Web Services story, as well as outlining the experiences of a handful of small customers using the platform.
For example, he highlighted the experiences of local company Cyclopic Energy, which is using Amazon’s platform to model the physics of wind farms, data prediction company Kaggle and Web 2.0 site RedBubble. All three were drawing on the different strengths of cloud computing as provided by Amazon, Vogels said.
A fourth example was digital services agency Citrus, which constructed the website for the Melbourne Cup. On a daily basis the site received only thousands of hits, Vogels said, but during the Melbourne Cup week it was inundated with millions; meaning it needed backing computing infrastructure which could scale up and down dramatically for that period.
Vogels later displayed slides with the names of a large number of massive global corporations which were using the AWS platform, as well as a slide displaying the names of a number of huge US Government departments and agencies. However, neither slide contained the names of top-tier Australian companies or government agencies, with Amazon’s services believed to mainly be in use by small to medium-sized Australian firms, or for services that were not mission-critical, such as small testing environments.
The event marks one of the first occasions over the past several years where Amazon executives have spoken publicly in Australia with respect to local usage of their growing cloud computing platform. Amazon Web Services is popular amongst Australian startups, who see the storage and hosting platform as a reliable and inexpensive building block to aid them in building new online systems which may be required to scale up dramatically as customer usage expands rapidly.
Amazon’s visit Down Under comes as the trend against global cloud giants building Australia-based datacentres shows some signs of shifting.
Salesforce.com confirmed in mid-May this year that it was confirming the case for when to build a local datacentre, with global CEO Marc Benioff saying a locat datacentre was not a matter of “an if”, but “a when”. SAP partner Oxygen late last month revealed plans to sell a complete software as a service platform locally based on a hosted SAP suite, while Oracle has confirmed plans to sell its CRM on demand product through a Sydney-based datacentre hosted by Harbour MSP.
https://delimiter.com.au/2011/07/14/amazon-opens-australian-office/
Amazon opens Australian office
By Renai LeMay -
14/07/2011
6
Global cloud computing and retail giant Amazon today told customers it had opened an Australian office with dedicated local staff to service the cloud computing market, as speculation continues to swirl that the company will also establish a new local datacentre facility to meet customer demand.
The company’s Asia-Pacific managing director of its Web Services division Shane Owenby and global chief technology officer Werner Vogels (pictured) hit Sydney today for a half-day presentation to a moderate-sized group of customers at the ritzy Sofitel Wentworth hotel in the downtown central business district. A similar event was held in Melbourne earlier in the week.
It has previously been unclear whether Amazon has dedicated staff in Australia. However, Owenby told the crowd that the company had launched a local office to support its growing Web Services (cloud computing) business. Customers had asked Amazon: “Will we see staff in Australia?” said Owenby. “The answer is yes.”
Apart from the lack of local staff, another sticking point for Australian customers looking to adopt Amazon’s services has been the lack of an Australia-based datacentre, with the closest facilities being located in Singapore and on the West Coast of the United States. Amazon’s other main facilities are located in Europe, America’s East Coast and Japan, and it operates a number of other smaller fringe facilities as part of its global content distribution network.
Earlier this week, The Australian newspaper reported that Amazon was canvassing up to three sites in Sydney for a potential new local datacentre to be set up, with a potential unveiling of such a facility by early 2012. However, at the event this afternoon, Amazon executives didn’t deliver any concrete confirmation or denial of the reported plans.
“International expansion is important,” said Owenby, noting Australia was a “key market” for Amazon. “Being a customer-centric organisation, we’ve heard from customers that they want infrastructure in Australia, it’s something that we’re interested in talking to customers about.”
Despite the discussions, Owenby pointed out that a lot of Australian customers were already using Amazon services served from existing datacentres in other regions.
Speaking after Owenby, Vogels — the key drawcard for this afternoon’s seminar — gave the audience a high-level overview of the Amazon Web Services story, as well as outlining the experiences of a handful of small customers using the platform.
For example, he highlighted the experiences of local company Cyclopic Energy, which is using Amazon’s platform to model the physics of wind farms, data prediction company Kaggle and Web 2.0 site RedBubble. All three were drawing on the different strengths of cloud computing as provided by Amazon, Vogels said.
A fourth example was digital services agency Citrus, which constructed the website for the Melbourne Cup. On a daily basis the site received only thousands of hits, Vogels said, but during the Melbourne Cup week it was inundated with millions; meaning it needed backing computing infrastructure which could scale up and down dramatically for that period.
Vogels later displayed slides with the names of a large number of massive global corporations which were using the AWS platform, as well as a slide displaying the names of a number of huge US Government departments and agencies. However, neither slide contained the names of top-tier Australian companies or government agencies, with Amazon’s services believed to mainly be in use by small to medium-sized Australian firms, or for services that were not mission-critical, such as small testing environments.
The event marks one of the first occasions over the past several years where Amazon executives have spoken publicly in Australia with respect to local usage of their growing cloud computing platform. Amazon Web Services is popular amongst Australian startups, who see the storage and hosting platform as a reliable and inexpensive building block to aid them in building new online systems which may be required to scale up dramatically as customer usage expands rapidly.
Amazon’s visit Down Under comes as the trend against global cloud giants building Australia-based datacentres shows some signs of shifting.
Salesforce.com confirmed in mid-May this year that it was confirming the case for when to build a local datacentre, with global CEO Marc Benioff saying a locat datacentre was not a matter of “an if”, but “a when”. SAP partner Oxygen late last month revealed plans to sell a complete software as a service platform locally based on a hosted SAP suite, while Oracle has confirmed plans to sell its CRM on demand product through a Sydney-based datacentre hosted by Harbour MSP.
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They will do it.
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Alibaba is known in south east asia
Amazon ebay were not efficient nor quick enough in making their presence felt in SEA region, that said they didnt take off and lost the south east asian pie which has decent amount of purchasing power.
However i can see alibaba would have a tougher time in the west due to west preferring western platform the same preferential treatment china haters harps about.
Amazon ebay were not efficient nor quick enough in making their presence felt in SEA region, that said they didnt take off and lost the south east asian pie which has decent amount of purchasing power.
However i can see alibaba would have a tougher time in the west due to west preferring western platform the same preferential treatment china haters harps about.
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Some win, some lose. No whining, please.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/alibaba-launches-in-australia-with-alipay-20141118-11p3ly.html
alibaba's lazada is the king in south east asia. a lot of the products on amazon and ebay are bought from alibaba cheaply and resell at higher price... oh, yeah. aliexpress, who is growing very fast international. so much for no one knows about alibaba outside china lol
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hahaha its absolutely hilarious!
the pdf "professional" fails miserably in basic finance concepts, yet again!!!
it's the indian "chemitry student" 4-0 over the forever bragging guy for that matter.
What a shame!
What's worse is he kept on haggling on his trash in his next post.
The report of the OP is as volatile as the stock market. So it was right on the spot of reporting but the positions may change and renew day after day. They may rank the positions by number of employees, net worth, revenue, distribution ... as they prefer.
Anyway, Alibaba pioneered a new method on its IPO and it was launched very successfully on the NYSEx!
Alibaba is the new and very promising kid on the block while the other contestant is an aging historical company. Share prices reflect market and investors' optimism on Alibaba because China has a huge and growing internet shoppers who have the greatest conveniance of getting access almost immediately to a full-range consumer products here in China!
Congrats! Keep up with the good works Alibaba!
the pdf "professional" fails miserably in basic finance concepts, yet again!!!
it's the indian "chemitry student" 4-0 over the forever bragging guy for that matter.
What a shame!
What's worse is he kept on haggling on his trash in his next post.
The report of the OP is as volatile as the stock market. So it was right on the spot of reporting but the positions may change and renew day after day. They may rank the positions by number of employees, net worth, revenue, distribution ... as they prefer.
Anyway, Alibaba pioneered a new method on its IPO and it was launched very successfully on the NYSEx!
Alibaba is the new and very promising kid on the block while the other contestant is an aging historical company. Share prices reflect market and investors' optimism on Alibaba because China has a huge and growing internet shoppers who have the greatest conveniance of getting access almost immediately to a full-range consumer products here in China!
Congrats! Keep up with the good works Alibaba!
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Interview: AliExpress emerges as Chile's leading purveyor for Chinese brands
Source: Xinhua| 2017-08-28 15:22:55|Editor: Yang Yi
Image taken on Aug. 25, 2017 shows a person checking China's AliExpress website at an office of Chile's postal service Correos in the city of Santiago, capital of Chile. Online retailer AliExpress has emerged as the leading source of exposure for Chinese businesses looking to sell their products to Chilean consumers, Katherine Cid, operations manager at Chile's state-run postal service Correos, told Xinhua in an interview. AliExpress consolidated its top spot this year thanks to its partnership with Correos, according to Cid. The Chinese company is an online marketplace owned and operated by Alibaba, the world's largest retailer. (Xinhua/Jorge Villegas)
by Javier Ureta
SANTIAGO, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- Online retailer AliExpress has emerged as the leading source of exposure for Chinese businesses looking to sell their products to Chilean consumers, Katherine Cid, operations manager at Chile's state-run postal service Correos, told Xinhua in an interview.
AliExpress consolidated its top spot this year thanks to its partnership with Correos, according to Cid. The Chinese company is an online marketplace owned and operated by Alibaba, the world's largest retailer.
"I think the best course for Chinese brands that want to expand their horizons is to follow this alliance with AliExpress. In 2014, four million purchases arrived from Asia, in 2015, 10 million, and this year, we expect 17 million packages," she said, whose department manages the AliExpress website for Chile.
"These massive purchases are nothing less than proof that we are becoming familiar with Chinese brands, which offer products that are in good quality and very reasonably priced," said Cid.
Correos and AliExpress agreed to work together to reach Chilean consumers two years ago.
"There's no better way to promote a brand. Our studies show that 50 percent of packages delivered in Chile arrive from abroad, and the Asian region plays an essential role in this expansion," the Chilean manager said.
Some 70 percent of Chileans have access to the Internet, via their smartphones, computers or laptops, a figure that aids online retailers like AliExpress.
"Increasingly people make their purchases online, that's why we believe AliExpress is such a good bet," said Cid.
Correos is also striving to resolve some of the biggest complaints that online shoppers have, mainly the amount of time they have to wait for a package.
"We have taken a series of steps to shorten the operational chain and delivery time. AliExpress' own people have told us that's one of the things clients value most," said Cid.
Those steps include arrangements to warehouse some Chinese-made goods in Chile in advance, so they can be shipped faster.
"We are now at a stage where some of the products on the AliExpress website are no longer in China, but already in Chile, so they will take less time," she told Xinhua.
While delivery periods vary depending on the item, an average purchase of between 7 and 30 U.S. dollars can take between 25 to 30 days to arrive from China.
Correos is even helping to promote key Chinese brands with great sales potential, such as Li-Ning sneakers, popularized by the NBA's Dwayne Wade and Spain's basketball team, by importing them from China and showcasing them at its busiest branches.
"At this moment, it's not a very well-known brand in Chile, but we have installed display cases at two branches in downtown Santiago that get a lot of foot traffic. They are going to gradually help brand placement," said Cid.
The display cases were installed in August, and the plan is to expand them to other parts of the country.
"The important thing about marketing these products is that it gives people a chance to see and touch the shoes, and realize they are well made, well priced and also pretty," she added.
AliExpress is one of the world's biggest online retailers, with its mother company, Alibaba, posting a record sales of 465.9 billion U.S. dollars in the fiscal year of 2016, according to its official statistics.
Correos' mail and package delivery service reaches an estimated 18 million Chilean people through a network of 255 branches across the country, from Arica in the north to Punta Arenas in the south.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-08/28/c_136561967_3.htm
Indians do not know. That makes world's largest service economy with immense population dividend is just wasted.
Source: Xinhua| 2017-08-28 15:22:55|Editor: Yang Yi
Image taken on Aug. 25, 2017 shows a person checking China's AliExpress website at an office of Chile's postal service Correos in the city of Santiago, capital of Chile. Online retailer AliExpress has emerged as the leading source of exposure for Chinese businesses looking to sell their products to Chilean consumers, Katherine Cid, operations manager at Chile's state-run postal service Correos, told Xinhua in an interview. AliExpress consolidated its top spot this year thanks to its partnership with Correos, according to Cid. The Chinese company is an online marketplace owned and operated by Alibaba, the world's largest retailer. (Xinhua/Jorge Villegas)
by Javier Ureta
SANTIAGO, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- Online retailer AliExpress has emerged as the leading source of exposure for Chinese businesses looking to sell their products to Chilean consumers, Katherine Cid, operations manager at Chile's state-run postal service Correos, told Xinhua in an interview.
AliExpress consolidated its top spot this year thanks to its partnership with Correos, according to Cid. The Chinese company is an online marketplace owned and operated by Alibaba, the world's largest retailer.
"I think the best course for Chinese brands that want to expand their horizons is to follow this alliance with AliExpress. In 2014, four million purchases arrived from Asia, in 2015, 10 million, and this year, we expect 17 million packages," she said, whose department manages the AliExpress website for Chile.
"These massive purchases are nothing less than proof that we are becoming familiar with Chinese brands, which offer products that are in good quality and very reasonably priced," said Cid.
Correos and AliExpress agreed to work together to reach Chilean consumers two years ago.
"There's no better way to promote a brand. Our studies show that 50 percent of packages delivered in Chile arrive from abroad, and the Asian region plays an essential role in this expansion," the Chilean manager said.
Some 70 percent of Chileans have access to the Internet, via their smartphones, computers or laptops, a figure that aids online retailers like AliExpress.
"Increasingly people make their purchases online, that's why we believe AliExpress is such a good bet," said Cid.
Correos is also striving to resolve some of the biggest complaints that online shoppers have, mainly the amount of time they have to wait for a package.
"We have taken a series of steps to shorten the operational chain and delivery time. AliExpress' own people have told us that's one of the things clients value most," said Cid.
Those steps include arrangements to warehouse some Chinese-made goods in Chile in advance, so they can be shipped faster.
"We are now at a stage where some of the products on the AliExpress website are no longer in China, but already in Chile, so they will take less time," she told Xinhua.
While delivery periods vary depending on the item, an average purchase of between 7 and 30 U.S. dollars can take between 25 to 30 days to arrive from China.
Correos is even helping to promote key Chinese brands with great sales potential, such as Li-Ning sneakers, popularized by the NBA's Dwayne Wade and Spain's basketball team, by importing them from China and showcasing them at its busiest branches.
"At this moment, it's not a very well-known brand in Chile, but we have installed display cases at two branches in downtown Santiago that get a lot of foot traffic. They are going to gradually help brand placement," said Cid.
The display cases were installed in August, and the plan is to expand them to other parts of the country.
"The important thing about marketing these products is that it gives people a chance to see and touch the shoes, and realize they are well made, well priced and also pretty," she added.
AliExpress is one of the world's biggest online retailers, with its mother company, Alibaba, posting a record sales of 465.9 billion U.S. dollars in the fiscal year of 2016, according to its official statistics.
Correos' mail and package delivery service reaches an estimated 18 million Chilean people through a network of 255 branches across the country, from Arica in the north to Punta Arenas in the south.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-08/28/c_136561967_3.htm
Indians do not know. That makes world's largest service economy with immense population dividend is just wasted.
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hahaha its absolutely hilarious!
the pdf "professional" fails miserably in basic finance concepts, yet again!!!
it's the indian "chemitry student" 4-0 over the forever bragging guy for that matter.
What a shame!
What's worse is he kept on haggling on his trash in his next post.
The report of the OP is as volatile as the stock market. So it was right on the spot of reporting but the positions may change and renew day after day. They may rank the positions by number of employees, net worth, revenue, distribution ... as they prefer.
Anyway, Alibaba pioneered a new method on its IPO and it was launched very successfully on the NYSEx!
Alibaba is the new and very promising kid on the block while the other contestant is an aging historical company. Share prices reflect market and investors' optimism on Alibaba because China has a huge and growing internet shoppers who have the greatest conveniance of getting access almost immediately to a full-range consumer products here in China!
Congrats! Keep up with the good works Alibaba!
LOL..........Cheer, Cheeer, Cheeeeeeeeer..........
I found it funny and amaze at your ability to insult me and insult the person who is having a go at me at the same time. This type of trolling capability cannot be come out with people who have just one hole to spill crap.
Congrat, you just reach the top of the peak in trolling.
Alibaba = No 1 Kebab shop in Australia. 35 years and running. Keep up the good work
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Sourgraped spotted.
When China advances herself so gallantly on every sphere, we pose as opportunities for our friends and the biggest thorn in the eyes of the haters especially when looking on their own country of origin's dire state, they have nothing to fall back on!
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Amazon is ranked as the 5th most powerful brand in the world in the latest Interbrand rankings, at a brand value of $65 billion, while Alibaba is nowhere to be found. In terms of international recognition/prestige Alibaba is a nobody.
This reminds me of how the Chinese here were boasting about the "success" of Wolf Warrior 2, when practically no one outside of China saw the film.
Sure, China has a huge market, but China won't always be able to rely on it due to its impending demographic decline. Chinese companies are largely oriented to Chinese people.
This reminds me of how the Chinese here were boasting about the "success" of Wolf Warrior 2, when practically no one outside of China saw the film.
Sure, China has a huge market, but China won't always be able to rely on it due to its impending demographic decline. Chinese companies are largely oriented to Chinese people.
Looks like someone is a frog in the well.
Alibaba nowhere to be found? Oh I see, self denial is good
https://www.chinainternetwatch.com/19579/top-global-retail-brands/
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