Employees of Yiguo.com package fruit in Shanghai. [Photo/China Daily] Tmall, Alibaba's business-to-customer unit, announced on Thursday it invested $300 million in Yiguo.com, a full-category fresh food site, to facilitate the expansion of its cold-chain ... ( read original story ...)
Southeast Student Learns Tenacity at Shanghai Farms Startup
Southeast Missouri State University senior Zach Beal is learning about the drive it takes to start a business. Beal, a corporate communications major with minors in marketing and management from McClure, Illinois, is spending his summer at Shanghai Farms ... ( read original story ...)
Why This Shanghai Mall’s Impressive Growth Bodes Well for Luxury Brands in China
In addition to the strong sales growth, Shanghai Plaza 66 also reported a nine percent increase in rent, which is a huge jump from its decrease by 13 percent in the same period last year—signaling great business improvement for its tenants. Some tenants ... ( read original story ...)
Leading Digital Transformation Is Like Urban Planning
The business case for these improvements is often hard to make ... the architects of Boston’s Big Dig can testify. Finally, like Shanghai, companies can break away from their past and build a new city entirely. When Shanghai decided to invest in what ... ( read original story ...)
GIC leads US$220 million funding round for Chinese P2P firm Dianrong
It recently launched a partnership in Hong Kong to offer a marketplace for Asian investors to buy into US consumer loans, and in July Dianrong bought the asset origination business of Shanghai-based Quark Finance in a bid to increase the volume of loans it ... ( read original story ...)
China Gaming Crackdown Redraws Battle Lines in Sydney Casino War
A Shanghai court in June convicted 19 current and former staff ... in Australia has plummeted from more than 70 percent in 2010 to 39 percent. “Their business from Asia has been severely damaged,” said Roy Wheatley, CEO of gambling consultancy Global ... ( read original story ...)
Data From 2 Years Of Chevrolet EN-V 2.0 Pilot Sharing Program
“The fleet of 16 EN-V 2.0 electric concept vehicles logged almost 90,000 kilometers of shared journeys at SJTU’s Minhang campus in Shanghai. Nearly 35,000 ... of technology solutions for the car-sharing business in China.” GM Executive Vice President ... ( read original story ...)