Alibaba Has New Prey: It Will Announce The Acquisition Of A New Logistics Company.

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In recent developments in India, Alibaba shut down four local B2B business offices. Today, news comes out that it is working with two logistics companies, Delhivery and Xpressbees.

Earlier, Alibaba announced that it will officially enter India this year. People familiar with the matter said that they would finalize the acquisition of a logistics company before the e-commerce platform was launched.

The following are the details:

According to India media reports, Alibaba is currently working with two local e-commerce logistics companies Delhivery and Xpressbees to discuss cooperation.

Alibaba and ant Finance jointly hold about 40% of Paytm, another local logistics company, and Delhivery and Xpressbees are Paytm's third party logistics partners.

It is reported that Ali also plans to increase investment in Paytm, to prepare for the next launch of the electronic business platform.

In March this year, Alibaba President J Michael Evans said it will enter India in 2016, and print media said Alibaba would announce the acquisition of a new logistics company within four to six months before that.

Thailand fashion providers want to expand new markets

Zilingo, a fashion business in Thailand, said in an interview that it is planning to open up new markets.

It is reported that Zilingo currently covers four countries in Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and India, and has more than 1500 sellers in Thailand and Singapore, mainly engaged in sales of clothing, accessories, bags, shoes and cosmetics, facing about 500000 of the world's users.

Previously, it received $1 million 880 thousand seed money from Sequoia Capital.

Uber Philippines launches carpool service

Uber launches UberPool service in Philippines, and passengers can choose to carpool with passengers in the same direction, which is currently restricted to Manila, capital.

UberPool will be 25% cheaper than regular cars. Uber said it hopes to ease local traffic congestion and protect the environment through this service.

UberPool was launched in 2014 and now accounts for 20% of Uber's total global orders.

Indonesia 18.62% job seekers rely on the Internet to find jobs.

JobPlanet, an Indonesian recruitment and job search platform, released the findings of job seekers' job search sources.

From January 2016 to May, 30.33% of the 31500 respondents indicated that they obtained information directly through job advertisements, 13.06% through the company's official website, 10.55% through school recruitment fairs, 2.5% through headhunters, and the remaining 18.62% through the Internet.

It is reported that JobPlanet came from Korea, and entered Indonesia in August last year. In addition, the well-known job hunting platforms include Jobstreet, JobsDB, Karir and so on.

India will levy taxes on electricity suppliers

India recently issued a draft of the Goods and Services Tax Bill (GST).

According to the draft, the tax on online shopping will be taxed, which will make the tax issue more clear for e-commerce products. In this case, people in the industry think it may cause a heavier tax burden on e-commerce companies and small businesses.

GST has been approved by the house of Commons, and the next step will be submitted to the house of Lords.

In addition, GST needs more than 50% of the national parliament to deliberate and adopt the corresponding GST bill.

The India government hopes to introduce a formal bill in April 1, 2017.

India queues APP for millions of dollars

SMINQ, a start-up company in India, has invested $1 million in seed wheels, and investors are Saama Capital and Blume Ventures.

SMINQ provides real-time queuing information through mobile phones, similar to the domestic call sign system, eliminating the need to queue up to ensure that the waiting process is easy, pparent and fair.

Founded in June last year, SMINQ is currently working with clinics. More than 40 doctors have become paid users and will develop bank and restaurant businesses in the future.