Ali launched the e-commerce app "Tao" in Japan: in the future, it will expand its staff to explore the local market. On December 12, Alibaba Group held a briefing on the e-commerce app "Tao" launched for the Japanese market. The company said that it will expand its staff in the future and fully explore the Japanese market. According to reports, the APP was launched in October, selling more than 3 million kinds of goods such as clothing, groceries and digital related products. It also has the function of recommending goods by artificial intelligence (AI) according to consumers' preferences. The goods are mainly delivered from China after the consumer places an order, and arrive in Japan a few days later. (Interface News)Mitsubishi electric will invest $143.5 million to build a heat pump factory in the United States.Some short-term inter-bank bonds performed brilliantly. The yield of 2-year active bonds "21 interest-bearing bonds 02" went down 5bp to reach 1.1%, which was 11bp upside down from the current 1-year active bonds "24 discount bonds 67" yield of 1.21%.
Texas, the United States, launched an investigation into technology platforms for the protection of minors. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Thursday that the attorney general's office launched an investigation into more than a dozen technology platforms, covering practices on the privacy and safety of minors. Paxton added that the surveyed platforms include artificial intelligence chat robot startups such as Character.AI, Reddit, Instagram and Discord. Social media companies said that they will cooperate with officials to protect young users, and said that they have launched new tools aimed at protecting teenagers from surfing the Internet, including parental controls.CEO of Cloud Whale Intelligence responded to layoffs: In order to optimize the organizational structure, it was streamlined from 1,600 to 1,400. Zhang Junbin, CEO of Cloud Whale Intelligence, recently issued a statement in a circle of friends, responding to previous reports of layoffs: "The company's personnel adjustment is to optimize the organizational structure and improve organizational efficiency." According to Zhang Junbin, the company was downsized from the original 1,600 to 1,400, which was not a large-scale layoff. Previously, a number of insiders and employees of Cloud Whale Intelligence revealed to Sina Technology that the company has recently started a major layoff. This round of layoffs involves a wide range of business departments, including development departments, testing departments, etc., and in groups, some groups directly cut their staff by half, and extreme groups cut their staff by 65%. In addition, the company's 12 director-level leaders, three of whom left in the past year, "is very mobile." (Sina Technology)Li Yujia, Guangdong Urban Planning Institute: The real estate will stabilize and the policy will be strengthened. Li Yujia, chief researcher of the Housing Policy Research Center of Guangdong Urban and Rural Planning Institute, said that risk prevention is the primary task at present. As two typical representatives of China's assets, the property market and the stock market are expressed together to stabilize the price and quantity. Li Yujia believes that the expression of "continuous push" put forward at this meeting is novel and meaningful. This means that the next step will continue to implement the logic of "launching incremental policies and implementing stock policies" to form a policy superposition and release effect. At the same time, the word "hard" also indicates that not only will new policies be introduced in the future, but the policy intensity will be further increased. Judging from the contents of the meeting, whether it is to stabilize the real estate market or expand domestic demand, it is no longer simply dependent on the investment of financial or monetary funds, but emphasizes the need to lay a good policy "combination boxing". (China Real Estate News)
The MSCI Asia Pacific Index fell 1% to 185.63.Weixing Co., Ltd.: Compared with the first half of the year, the growth rate of acquiring orders in the second half of the year gradually declined, but the overall growth rate still maintained. Weixing Co., Ltd. recently said in a conference call that due to the influence of the terminal consumption boom, downstream brand customers were cautious in placing orders, and the growth rate of acquiring orders in the second half of the year gradually declined compared with the first half of the year, but the overall growth rate still maintained. In recent years, the company has mainly focused on promoting globalization strategy, intelligent manufacturing strategy and improving manufacturing level, technical level and product quality, and achieved certain results.Hong Kong stocks opened lower, with the Hang Seng Technology Index falling to 2% and the Hang Seng Index falling 1.76%.