Paula Macaggi, the founder of OFFBounds, sets off for her first trip to Shanghai and questions e-commerce expert Sharon Gai, the author of  Ecommerce Reimagined: Retail and Ecommerce in China on what she can expect on her journey. Key Takeaways: •⁠ ⁠The super app experience with WeChat •⁠ ⁠How China’s retail is about content and entertainment •⁠ ⁠Unique consumer behaviors and retail experiences only found in China •⁠ ⁠The rise of sustainable consumption in Chinese e-commerce.Read More →

China’s state-owned CGTN’s anchor Karina Mitchell wonders if she might be quickly out of a job when Winston Ma, Adjunct Professor at New York University Law School, explains how dealing with emotion might be AI’s next step to integrate into our lives. Winston Ma is the author of  The Digital War: How China’s Tech Power Shapes the Future of AI, Blockchain and Cyberspace and other books on innovation.Read More →

China’s eateries have been slashing their prices up to half to woo consumers, but marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok warns that this trend might hurt the businesses, as their costs do not go down, she tells Channel News Asia. Business models and their effects do vary a lot, depending on the age group the industry is focusing on, she adds.Read More →

Former Alibaba executive Sharon Gai explains how AI is changing the retail industry beyond recognition. Amazon was the pioneer in this field, although now nobody can ignore the change AI is causing globally.Read More →

China marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok discusses her success in supporting companies selling in China in a new Growth Tactics podcast by Jeff Towson. “China is a big country,” says Ashley Dudarenok,  “but what’s trending in Shanghai today? How can I make my post, my message? Connected with that broader topic that is featured in the media or in on a specific platform et cetera.”Read More →

AI expert Alvin Wang Graylin dives into the future of the metaverse and discusses his book Our Next Reality: Preparing for the AI-powered Metaverse, and how the world finds itself at the crossroads of a new industrial revolution, in a discussion with Cecilia Lascialfari.Read More →

While the controversy between China and the US is heating up, and almost every country tries to invest in their own AI, Alvin Wang Graylin, co-author of Our Next Reality: Preparing for the AI-powered Metaverse, pleads for a global approach to developing the new industrial revolution, he tells in an interview wat WISE on Air with Elyas Felfoul.Read More →

China’s EV brands like NIO and BYD are currently beating Tesla, says Shanghai-based business analyst  Shaun Rein at CNBC. While China’s automotive industry is pushing out new models and innovations, Tesla looks old-fashioned with a model that has not changed over the past six, seven years, he adds.Read More →