“Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD.com reported nearly $60 billion in sales Monday part way through Singles Day Alibaba said sales by merchants on its platforms totaled 221.6 billion yuan ($31.7 billion) by 6 p.m., passing last year’s total of $30.8 billion. Online sales of goods rose 16.8% over a year earlier in the first…
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It’s Time for Alibaba to Slay the Monster Jack Ma Created
“The Nov. 11 annual event, which has been going for a decade, started as a marketing gimmick for an upstart e-commerce company looking to draw a crowd. And it did. GMV (gross merchandise value) grew more than 4,000 times between 2009 and 2018, hitting $30.8 billion last year Alibaba doesn’t want to be just an…