Alibaba Group news including Tmall, Taobao, 1688, and global B2B sourcing.
Alibaba has offered about $1.5 billion for Chinese on-demand grocery platform Pupu, more than double a rival bid. The move escalates its instant-retail fight with Meituan and JD.com.
The US Department of Defense has named Alibaba, Baidu and BYD on its updated Section 1260H list of Chinese military companies. The label carries no automatic sanctions but deepens US-China decoupling for one of the worlds largest e-commerce and cloud firms.
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