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Amazon China Takes On Alibaba
September 11, 2014

Alibaba will have a record-breaking IPO next week, but it’s Amazon that owns the future of China’s $400 billion online shopping industry, argues Peter Fuhrman, CEO of investment bank China First Capital. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

International
A First Look At Alibaba’s IPO Roadshow
September 09, 2014

Alibaba Group launched the roadshow for its $24 billion initial public offering in New York on Monday (Sept. 8). But although China’s e-commerce giant has updated its IPO filing six times since May, there are still unanswered questions, according to a Wall Street Journal blog....

International
Alibaba IPO To Be Bigger Than Visa’s
September 08, 2014

Monday (Sept. 8), Chinese tech giant Alibaba kicks off its IPO roadshow as it tries to persuade prominent investors to jump into an IPO that will almost certainly become one of the largest in history. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

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Mobile Payments Changing The Face Of Agriculture World Wide
September 05, 2014

For farmers across the developing world, being trapped in a cash-based economy is costly.  Those costs come in all forms—what commodity buyers farmers can work with, security risks associated with constantly carrying around large wads of currency, the unpredictable price fluctuation and pressure to produce...

News
Alipay Goes Bio(metric)
September 03, 2014

Alibaba’ payments arm Alipay has partnered up with Chinese handset maker Huawei to help consumers have mobile payments literally at their fingertips.  The companies are working to create a mobile payments system that uses the fingerprint reader to be built into Huawei’s forthcoming Mate 7...

Acquiring
Trends Of The Week
August 30, 2014

Over the past week, PYMNTS.com’s brief’s coverage in this newsletter has spanned a broad variety of issues. In this column, we take a look at five common elements that link many of those stories, in essence making them the “trends of the week.” Get the...

International
Is This How Amazon Will Enter China?
August 22, 2014

Amazon is boosting its presence in China by setting up shop in Shanghai’s free trade zone, a move that lets the online retail giant take advantage of less-stringent trade regulations to sell a wider range of products, according to Reuters. Get the Full Story Complete...

International
China’s Alibaba and Tencent Call Off Taxi-App War
August 19, 2014

China’s two biggest Internet companies, Alibaba and Tencent, have called a truce in their six-month war to capture customers for their respective taxi-hailing apps. Total cost: more than 2 billion renminbi ($325 million), the Financial Times reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

China Rejects Apple? Not So Fast, Says Country’s Procurement Center
August 13, 2014

Chinese government procurement lists have not banned Apple products, according to a Reutersreport from last week. Originally, the rumor was that the popular laptops and tablets were blacklisted because of national security concerns. However, China’s Central Government Procurement Centre, the finance ministry and Apple have...