Singles Day

Alibaba generates $10 Billion GMV within an hour of is 11.11 Single's Day sale

Alibaba also hosted the countdown to the official launch gala on its video streaming platform Youku.

After Crazy Rich Asians' success, Chinese-centric rom-com Singles Day acquired by New Line

Singles Day is a romantic comedy written by Lillian Yu, revolving around its namesake festival celebrated by Chinese on 11 November.

China’s e-commerce website JD.com sales reached $19.14 billion on Singles’ Day

JD.com started its sales event on 1 November, to reduce delivery bottlenecks and to give users more time to make their purchasing decisions, it said.

China's Alibaba Singles’ Day sale breaks its own world record; hits $25.4 billion in a single day

Alibaba also said it had turned 100,000 physical shops around China into “smart stores” for this year’s event.

Alibaba's Singles' day sales nearly hit $16 billion in China, midway into the annual shopping extravaganza

Singles’ Day has become an annual 24-hour extravaganza that exceeds the combined sales for Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the United States.

'Singles Day': China's annual online shopping binge crosses $16 billion in 10 hours

China's smartphone masses splurged billions of dollars in an e-commerce bonanza on Saturday as consumers rushed to snap up bargains on "Double 11"

Alibaba posted a record $17.73 billion worth of sales on Singles' Day but saw growth slow

The gala shopping day from Alibaba saw growth slow as Chinese shoppers searched for deeper discounts and lower pricetags

Alibaba Singles Day sale transactions surpass $13.6 billion with 9 hours to go

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's Singles' Day sales surged past last year's 91.2 billion yuan ($13.36 billion) total with nearly nine hours left on the clock, but growth was markedly slower than in 2015 as shoppers sought even bigger price cuts.

Alibaba crosses $5 billion transactions in one hour of its "Singles Day" sales

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd said it racked up more than $5 billion in transactions in the first hour of its annual 'Singles' Day' sales blitz on Friday - a third more than in the first hour of last year's spree.

Business regulator warns online stores like Alibaba and JD.com on "Singles Day" strategy

China's business regulator said it has warned leading online shopping companies, including Alibaba Group Holding and JD.com, against adopting dodgy sales tactics at the upcoming "Singles Day" festival, China's biggest shopping day of the year.