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A deep dive into PDD's finances and operations, which are shrouded in secrecy and raise questions about US investors' confidence in Temu's parent company (Financial Times)
https://t.co/fbOvZr0rYa

Project Manager (E-commerce) for The Kyiv Independent: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/19/project-manager-ecommerce.html

Learning to Ask Critical Questions for Assisting Product Search
Zixuan Li, Lizi Liao, Tat-Seng Chua
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02754 https://

Learning to Ask Critical Questions for Assisting Product Search
Product search plays an essential role in eCommerce. It was treated as a special type of information retrieval problem. Most existing works make use of historical data to improve the search performance, which do not take the opportunity to ask for user's current interest directly. Some session-aware methods take the user's clicks within the session as implicit feedback, but it is still just a guess on user's preference. To address this problem, recent conversational or question-based search mod…

Hello #philippines and #tootsea
Which popular e-commerce is the lesser evil?
I just don't want two bloated apps on my phone that I only use when I actually needed once a month so I want stick to one.
#ecommerce

AliExpress and Temu were the fastest-growing ecommerce apps in South Korea in 2023; Nomura: Chinese websites account for only ~2% of South Korean ecommerce GMV (Financial Times)
https://t.co/Qho3btWQj0

On my way to the #Symfony #Ecommerce meetup in Cologne tonight. See you later...

Project Manager (E-commerce) for The Kyiv Independent: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/19/project-manager-ecommerce.html

The Associated Press plans to launch AP Buyline, an e-commerce site powered by Taboola, on March 18, part of a broader effort to attract more consumer revenue (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/12/ap-ecommerce-taboola

Exclusive: AP launches e-commerce site with Taboola
The new site will launch with with personal finance recommendations at first.

On my way to the #Symfony #Ecommerce meetup in Cologne tonight. See you later...

The EU Parliament bars Amazon lobbyists from its premises, after MEPs said the company repeatedly refused to engage about workers' rights and labor conditions (Financial Times)
https://t.co/D37lF6HeWN

It's unfortunate that Wired seems to equate “fakes,” “knockoffs,” and “bootleg copies” with “counterfeits."
https://www.wired.com/story/influencers-paid-promote-designer-knockoffs-from-china/ (h/t @…

The Influencers Getting Paid to Promote Designer Knockoffs From China
Influencers on TikTok and Reddit earn a cut of the counterfeit goods trade by promoting high-quality “replicas” sourced from ecommerce sites in China.

Why Walmart sees drone delivery taking flight
#RealEstate #UrbanDevelopment #SmartCitiesDive

Influencers on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and other sites are using affiliate links for Chinese ecommerce sites like Pandabuy and DHGate to promote knockoffs (Louise Matsakis/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/influencers-paid-promote-designer…

The Influencers Getting Paid to Promote Designer Knockoffs From China
Influencers on TikTok and Reddit earn a cut of the counterfeit goods trade by promoting high-quality “replicas” sourced from ecommerce sites in China.

US-listed PDD, which runs Temu and Pinduoduo, reports Q4 revenue up 123% YoY to ~$12.5B and operating profit up 146% YoY to ~$3.2B, boosted by merchant fees (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://t.co/4tIL8GuxxU

Captions Are Worth a Thousand Words: Enhancing Product Retrieval with Pretrained Image-to-Text Models
Jason Tang, Garrin McGoldrick, Marie Al-Ghossein, Ching-Wei Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08532

Captions Are Worth a Thousand Words: Enhancing Product Retrieval with Pretrained Image-to-Text Models
This paper explores the usage of multimodal image-to-text models to enhance text-based item retrieval. We propose utilizing pre-trained image captioning and tagging models, such as instructBLIP and CLIP, to generate text-based product descriptions which are combined with existing text descriptions. Our work is particularly impactful for smaller eCommerce businesses who are unable to maintain the high-quality text descriptions necessary to effectively perform item retrieval for search and recomm…