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The Growing U.S.-China Ecommerce Rivalry will Make 2024 the Year of Commerce Media

Ecommerce continues to climb to new heights in the U.S., where recently released figures for Q4 2023 show that sales reached nearly…

Exploiting Loopholes: The Dark Side of Fast Fashion Giants Shein and Temu

“Fast fashion is not free. Someone, somewhere is paying the price.” – Lucy Siegle The fast fashion industry is hardly new, but…

Wish Sold to Asian Ecommerce Platform Qoo10 for $173 Million

After years of decline, ContextLogic has sold its discount shopping app Wish for approximately $173 million in cash to Qoo10, an ecommerce…

Super Bowl LVIII Ads Go Back to Basics: Touting Product Attributes

Apparently there was a football game surrounding yesterday’s commercials and Taylor Swift sightings, but we’re not going to talk about either of…

Temu Opens its Platform to U.S. and European Sellers

Discount shopping app Temu is giving U.S. and European merchants access to sell on its marketplace, which had previously only been open…

JD.com Wins Antitrust Suit in China; Alibaba Fined $140 Million

JD.com has won a lawsuit against rival Alibaba Group in the High People’s Court of Beijing, which fined Alibaba 1 billion yuan…

7 Stories that Shaped 2023 — and What They Foretell for 2024

The editors of Retail TouchPoints are sharing our picks for the seven most consequential stories of 2023. As usual, there were lots…

Temu Sues Shein for ‘Mafia-Style’ Anticompetitive Behavior, Ending Short-Lived Truce

The battle between Chinese discount shopping apps Shein and Temu is getting downright nasty. Temu has filed a new lawsuit against Shein…

As Shein and Temu Continue to Grow, Wish Turns to 3rd-Party Logistics as Survival Tactic

ContextLogic, the parent company of discount shopping app Wish, has launched a new third-party logistics service for non-Wish merchants called WishPost Smart…

Shein Quietly Files for U.S. IPO

Fast fashion juggernaut Shein has confidentially filed to go public, multiple sources report. The IPO, which people familiar with the matter said…

Temu Lawsuit Targets Counterfeit Apps and Lookalike Online Marketplaces

Editor’s note: On Nov. 20, 2023, Temu won a preliminary injunction in the U.S. District Court for Arizona preventing the owners of…

The Dragon’s Discount: How Chinese Shopping Apps Are Breathing Fire on Amazon’s Market Share

Need to save some money from too much shopping on Amazon? Check out Temu! Temu, the latest shopping app to shoot up…

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