JD.com

[7] JD.com’s portfolio spans across retail, technology, logistics, health care, industrials, property management, private label, insurance, and international business.

It started as an online magneto-optical store, but soon diversified, selling electronics, mobile phones, computers, and similar items.

[23][24][25] On 10 December 2010, JD's founder Liu Qiangdong announced through his Weibo account that every book sold on JD.com would be priced at 20 percent cheaper than its competitors.

[citation needed] Walmart sold its Chinese e-Commerce business Yihaodian to JD.com in 2016 in exchange for a 5.9% equity stake valued at $1.5 billion.

[41] JD.com also committed to further develop China's parcel delivery efficiency, investing US$101 million to subsidize merchants on JD.com for warehousing and distribution costs, for the upcoming 2017 Singles' Day.

[51] In November, JD.com removed all items related to Houston Rockets in response to the organization's general manager posting a tweet about Hong Kong.

[55] JD.com also announced that would be investing $830 million in its JD Health unit provided by private equity firm Hillhouse Capital.

[55] In December 2020, JD Health’s $3.5 billion IPO was Hong Kong’s largest initial public offering of the year.

[57] In July 2023, JD.com unveiled its ChatRhino (言犀 in Chinese) large language model (LLM), tailored to serve various industries.

[64][65] In light of the increasing number of mobile consumers in China, in 2017, Jingdong invested $397 million in Farfetch, which provided luxury e-commerce service based on the headquarters in London.

[68] As stated in the press release, JD would deploy its smart logistics, supply chain solutions[buzzword], big data-enabled inventory management and membership systems for Ruyi's subsidiary brands.

[69] Based on this partnership, JD and Ruyi will jointly establish fashion and lifestyle concept stores in core cities, such as Shanghai and Beijing.

Joy & Heron - animated promotional video by JD.com released under CC license