Shopify works with ecommerce giant JD.com to help its merchants sell in China: The deal marks a major push into China for Shopify and broadens JD.com’s international reach.
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| Jan 19, 2022
Chinese startups defied growing government regulation in 2021: Record investments point to strong momentum and confidence in tech and innovation.
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| Jan 12, 2022
US chip production accelerated by uncertainty in China: TSMC is fast-tracking plans to ramp up to 4-nanometer chips and will build an additional fab in Arizona. The tech gap between the US and China widens.
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| Dec 2, 2022
In a study of select countries, adults favored in-store over online shopping everywhere except China. There, 54% would rather shop digitally and only 16% preferred physical stores, while the rest had no opinion.
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| Mar 21, 2022
The repercussions of China’s leadership overhaul: Markets in China, Hong Kong, and New York plunge over worries that Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power could further confound investment in Big Tech.
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| Oct 25, 2022
ByteDance looks to extend its app hits and take on a rival: TikTok’s owner launches recommendation app Kesong in the China market to challenge Tencent.
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| Jul 18, 2022
Shein’s legal maneuvers demonstrate its global ambitions: The fast-fashion retailer is expanding its Singapore presence as it attempts to bypass stricter Chinese rules on offshore IPOs.
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| Feb 17, 2022
Starbucks’ reinvention plan leans on China for growth: The company ignores the threat of lockdowns as it pursues aggressive international expansion.
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| Sep 15, 2022
Parcels in the US, Australia, and the UK most commonly originate from China, as many retailers ship goods from the country.
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| Oct 6, 2021
TikTok’s growth could be stifled by ties to China: Intense demand and repeated scandals have the company twisted in a knot.
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| Aug 15, 2022
Temu, the recent entrant to the US ecommerce market, has taken the ecommerce world by storm since its September 2022 launch. The China-based etailer went from zero to 44.5 million unique visitors by December 2022, according to Comscore—a virtually unprecedented growth in traffic in just four months.
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| Feb 28, 2023
Shein’s expanding its US distribution centers in an effort to expand its American market. That’s good news for US customers, who currently wait up to 15 days for deliveries from the Chinese brand.
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| Oct 7, 2022
Chinese fast-fashion retailer Shein seeks a $100 billion valuation: That’s more than the combined worth of H&M and Zara, despite Shein selling exclusively online.
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| Apr 4, 2022
Insider Intelligence spoke with Lulu Ge, founder and CEO of Elix Healing, a femtech product that offers Chinese herbal supplements for people experiencing menstrual pain.
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| Feb 11, 2022
China has set the pace for livestream shopping, but it’s catching on elsewhere around the world. Join our analyst Bill Fisher as he hosts analysts Man-Chung Cheung and Karin von Abrams to discuss some of the successes, road bumps, and opportunities in this space.
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| Jun 28, 2022
In China and the US, 59% of internet users are comfortable using secondhand clothing items, making those countries where the resale fashion economy is most ripe for growth.
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| Nov 30, 2021
On today's episode, in our "Retail Me This, Retail Me That" segment, we discuss the reasons Chinese fast-fashion giant Shein has been so successful as of late. Then for "Red-Hot Retail," our analysts give us their very specific—and potentially risky—predictions about the future of Shein. Join our analyst Sara Lebow as she hosts analysts Sky Canaves and Jasmine Enberg.
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| Oct 4, 2022
It should come as little surprise that Amazon was the top US shopping app in 2021, downloaded 40.0 million times that year. More remarkable is Shein’s leap to the No. 2 spot, up from seventh place in 2020. The Chinese fashion giant had 32.0 million US downloads under its belt in 2021, 68% more than the year prior.
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| Feb 17, 2022
TikTok steps up its PR in the US capital: It’s hard for a Chinese company to make friends on the Hill, but it won’t be for lack of trying.
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| Jan 27, 2023
The US leads health tech funding by leaps and bounds—here’s why: We unpack why US digital health funding dollars are around 8X higher than countries like the UK and China, and what it means for international digital health startups.
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| Nov 19, 2021
Change is coming to Amazon: Amid slowing ecommerce growth, Amazon split its stock, saw its consumer chief resign, and announced plans to shutter its Chinese ebook store.
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| Jun 6, 2022
Both countries are researching the regulatory nuances for a potential CBDC while China and India push ahead with their own CBDCs.
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| Jan 14, 2022
Of all the countries we track, only China sees a greater proportion of retail sales attributed to ecommerce sales—32.0% in the UK this year versus 45.9% in China, and just 15.6% in the US, for comparison. Ad spending devoted to ecommerce is the reason why the retail industry will account for more than a fifth of total digital ad spending in the UK this year.
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| Sep 20, 2023
South Korea, Japan, and China, even though China's going to, as I mentioned, outnumber other regions as a proportion of internet users, only 11% in China. So why don't you give us a little bit more context, Ethan, to the lay of the land of podcasts around the world. Ethan Cramer-Flood:. This report is a useful part of the story for podcasting in general.
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| Nov 27, 2023
Coronavirus lockdowns in China have global repercussions: The ripple effect of Chinese factory shutdowns will be felt far and wide while businesses are forced to adjust expectations.
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| Apr 1, 2022