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Inside China’s Effort To Marry Digital ID With Mobile Payments
Mobile // May 14, 2018

It’s a prospective marriage that Chinese government authorities and digital commerce executives are pushing hard, including via a recently announced test involving Alibaba: combining the country’s mandatory ID program with mobile payment functions. And don’t count out the role of biometrics in making that relationship...

Alibaba Brings eCommerce Training To Rural China
eCommerce // March 16, 2016

Alibaba is holding tight to its focus on spurring eCommerce growth across rural China. The eCommerce giant’s latest move in the rural parts of the country involves providing training to a million teenagers throughout the regions that will equip them to begin their own online...

Cross-Border’s Slippery Cyber Slope
News // December 10, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Cyber Monday 2015 is now one for the record books. Analysts say that more than $3 billion was spent by consumers, a dramatic increase over 2014. Higher employment rates and lower gas prices have boosted consumer confidence, and that enthusiasm was reflected on the biggest...

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Alibaba Brings eCommerce Training To Rural China

March 16, 2016
Alibaba is holding tight to its focus on spurring eCommerce growth across rural China. The eCommerce giant’s latest move in the rural parts of the country involves providing training to a million teenagers throughout the regions that will equip them to begin their own online ventures, The New York Times reported Tuesday (March 15). According […]