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China shut down the "Are you dead" app, but the "crying horse" is selling out as the country grapples with a slowing economy and uncertainty.

Alibaba Group Holding has joined rivals including Tencent Holdings and Baidu in rolling out Spring Festival red-packet giveaways to drive mass-market adoption of its artificial intelligence apps, committing 3 billion yuan (US$432 million) to spur spending across its ecosystem as it seeks to extend its edge in foundational models to consumer-facing products. The Hangzhou-based e-commerce and AI giant said on Monday that its AI app Qwen would anchor a Spring Festival campaign across its flagship...

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Chinese regulators have slapped a 26 million yuan (US$3.7 million) fine on a unit of Kuaishou Technology, operator of the country’s No 2 short video platform, over multiple violations and misconduct in its live-streaming e-commerce operations, signalling tighter oversight of this market segment. Chengdu Kuaigou Technology, a unit of Beijing-based Kuaishou, was found to have committed seven breaches including failure to disclose information in accordance with the law, charging unreasonable fees...

Amazon's week included a White House screening of the "Melania" documentary and another massive round of layoffs.

AMD, Alphabet and Amazon are among the heavyweight companies reporting earnings in the week ahead.

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China has opened an antitrust investigation into Trip.com Group, the country’s largest online travel services provider, weeks before hundreds of millions of people on the mainland go away on holiday during the Lunar New Year break. The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) on Wednesday said the group – operator of namesake platform Trip.com, Skyscanner, Ctrip, Qunar and Dutch site Travix – abused its “dominant market position” and engaged in “monopolistic practices”. The...

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Vanessa Hebditch, the director of communications and policy at the British Liver Trust, told the Guardian that the removal is “excellent news,” but...

Walmart Inc. is partnering with Alphabet Inc. to offer AI-enhanced shopping on Google's Gemini platform — part of the retailer's race to apply the...

As retailers create AI agents for shopping and customer service, Google wants to secure its place in the ecommerce market.

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Major payment and tech companies are racing to build the infrastructure to enable agentic commerce, a trend they expect will transform global shopping.

Major payment and tech companies are racing to build the infrastructure to enable agentic commerce, a trend they expect will transform global shopping.

After a year defined by worries about cloud growth and tariff impact on retail, Amazon stock heads into the new year poised for gains.

Agents like OpenAI's Instant Checkout and Perplexity's Instant Buy threaten to reshape the e-commerce landscape.

Today on the Big Take: Instacart charged some consumers more for the same goods in a pricing experiment. It caught the attention of shoppers — and lawmakers.

Bolivia’s new President Rodrigo Paz said on Tuesday that major US technology companies will soon announce investments in the landlocked South American nation.

FlexShopper Inc., a publicly traded provider of lease-to-own financing for appliances, electronics and other consumer products, filed for bankruptcy months after firing its chief executive officer following an internal investigation into fraudulent loan documents.

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Shein is proving that it’s here to stay in Paris, even after a political backlash and controversy over sales of sex dolls and weapons. Jenny Che explains how French efforts to resist the fast-fashion retailer are falling flat. (Source: Bloomberg)

China issued rules for governing pricing-related practices of internet platform operators to safeguard the interests of consumers and merchants, telling them not to impose unreasonable restrictions on merchants’ ability to set prices.

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