Alibaba Group Holding's online shopping app Taobao has made its one-hour delivery service hotkey on the platform's homepage, as the tech giant tries to stake out a larger position in the on-demand delivery market amid competition with JD.com and ByteDance's Douyin. The 4-year-old service now has its own tab accessible from the Taobao homepage as of Tuesday, as China's largest e-commerce marketplace works with food delivery platform Ele.me, also owned by Alibaba, to expand the range of products t
Alibaba Group Holding's second-hand marketplace Xianyu has launched a new feature that enables users to hire themselves out for part-time gigs, as China struggles with high youth unemployment in a bleak job market. The function, officially launched on Tuesday, provides users with templates to quickly generate a "resume" by uploading a few photos or videos. Customers can place an order and pay, just like they would when buying items on the platform. Those who provide more than three images or vid
Two Alibaba Group Holding affiliates have become new shareholders of OceanBase, the database company founded by the e-commerce giant's fintech affiliate Ant Group, as the start-up overhauled its shareholding structure and spun off into a separate entity. Hangzhou Junhan and Hangzhou Junao are among 35 companies who became OceanBase shareholders last Saturday after Ant transferred its shares in a share swap arrangement. A number of big names in Chinese venture capital also took part, including Ch