Headlines: Is The Alibaba Closing The India Electricity Supplier Office To Exit Or Is It Brewing Big Action?

Southeast Asia

It is the time when heroes are fighting for hegemony and changing circumstances.

In today's Southeast Asia

The headlines begin in 2008.

Four B2B offices have been set up in India, but recently they have been completely shut down. Do they know whether to quit or to make big moves? In the past few years, the India government blocked the Uber rental car business. Yesterday, the two sides shook hands again. Baidu maps had been depressed for a while because of the Wei Chai incident in the country, and now they are talking with the Thailand Tourism Bureau for "wine to talk".

The following are the details:

1. Alibaba shut down in India's electricity supplier Office

Print media reported that in recent months, Alibaba (Alibaba.com) has closed all the B2B business offices in India, and this part of the business will be replaced by the dealer network.

These offices began in 2008, and a total of four were distributed in four cities in India.

According to industry analysis, in recent years, Alibaba group's B2B sector has adopted a strategy to reduce direct participation in the world and build local third party distributors' sales network.

According to Ali's official spokesman, Ali will expand its sales network in India, and make better use of distributors' resources and channels to serve the small and medium enterprises in India.

Coincidentally, recently, there is news that Alibaba group is also actively seeking investment opportunities in India, taking into account the acquisition of logistics companies, and additional investment in Paytm.

2. Baidu map published in Chinese Thailand version.

Baidu and Thailand tourism administration have signed a memorandum of strategic cooperation. The Thailand Tourism Bureau will provide 17 thousand authoritative certified tourist attractions, merchant and hotel geographic information for Baidu map of Thailand, and coordinate the cooperation of tourists nationwide with Baidu.

Baidu formally launched its business in Thailand market in 2012, and gradually established a local team of more than 20 people.

In the past few years, Baidu internationalization has launched DU Battery Saver, DU Speed Booster, MoboMarket third party application store, magic map, magic beat, ES File and other application products in Thailand.

3.Shopee focuses on land acquisition and investment in the second half year

Dang Hui, general manager of Singapore's C2C e-commerce platform Shopee, said recently at a domestic conference that the second half of the year will focus on developing new markets and increasing the number of platform sellers in mature markets.

He said that after the Shopee set up Singapore Ping, Malaysia, Taiwan three markets, in the trial operation stage, the domestic has only absorbed several big sellers in Shenzhen, next will officially force.

Dang Hui also revealed that in January this year, Shopee set up investment offices in Shenzhen and Hongkong. The advantage of mainland sellers is that OEM is the source of goods and the main products are cost-effective. Hongkong's investment target is foreign brands, and cosmetics sell better.

4. Singapore flash purchase website 1030AM enters Malaysia

Singapore flash shopping website 1030AM announced its entry into Malaysia, setting up new websites and offices, which are the main products of Korean cosmetics.

1030AM was established last year. So far, it has won the angel's round financing of China's Wan Wan's former CEO Zhang Xiangdong and 4399 former CTO Cao Zheng value of 75 million new coins (about 3 million 603 thousand yuan), as well as 51.com CEO Pang Sheng Dong 315 million new currency (about 15 million 134 thousand yuan) Pre-A round financing.

5. Microsoft opens an online store in India's e-commerce platform.

Microsoft announced the online shopping store in India Tata CLiQ online Microsoft online store, the sale of goods including Surface Pro 4, Lumia intelligent machine.

Microsoft has revealed that the online store has adopted the O2O mode, which can be shipped directly from the offline outlets of the cooperative brands, and consumers can enjoy the services such as picking up stores, returning goods to stores, etc.

Tata CLiQ, launched by the India local giant Tata group at the end of last month, has said that it will not spend money on building a lot of warehouses like other websites, but will establish inventory networks with existing cooperative enterprises.

6.Uber obtains taxi business operation permission in India

After the previous licences, the two taxi platforms, Uber and Ola, were finally granted permission from the government of India.

It is reported that the Ministry of communications of the India stipulates that the taxi business must hold a permit and strictly abide by the standards of cost, fuel and safety.