Ant Financial Services, an affiliate of Alibaba, will start allowing third-party vendors to offer services that extend beyond financial on Alipay, e.g. food delivery, retail and healthcare. Transforming 40m service providers Alipay is opening up its platform to support the digital transformation of 40m service providers over the next three years across China. This will enable them to open m...

Since launching in 2016, new-retail inspired Freshippo has expanded to about 200 stores covering more than 20 cities. Adapting to local needs Alibaba has been refining its Freshippo store concept and now operates seven different store formats. These target different shopper missions: Freshippo (formerly Hema Fresh) blends online, offline and big data to transform the grocery shoppin...

To help brands minimize impact of coronavirus, Alibaba’s B2B marketplace Tmall is rolling out a series of measures. A support package designed to minimize the impact Tmall has implemented a series of measures to minimize impact of coronavirus to help brands selling on its marketplace. The package includes the following: Reduced fees:  merchant operation expenses, logistics costs and ...