Alibaba Tries to Go Global With ‘Singles Day,’ China’s Big Shopping Festival

Alibaba Tries to Go Global With ‘Singles Day,’ China’s Big Shopping Festival
Singles Day in China is the world’s largest annual shopping extravaganza. Its creator, the e-commerce giant Alibaba, is now exporting the event to the rest of the world as part of its push to challenge Amazon and others. Photo: Geoffroy Van der Hasselt/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
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