SHANGHAI, China – Alibaba’s Singles’ Day surpassed Amazon’s biggest shopping day of the year in less than 10 minutes.
Less than 10 minutes in, Alibaba’s massive 24-hour online shopping extravaganza had generated more than $4.68 billion in sales. Twenty minutes in, sales had surpassed $6.5 billion.
In 2017, Alibaba’s Singles’ Day sales exceeded $25 billion.
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