state brought to us by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba kicked off

today and within the first 90 seconds of it going live the company says a process

in astonishing 1.4 billion dollars worth of consumer orders are home.you reports

millions of people waited for the clock to strike midnight to start clicking

their way through the limited amount of items on sale and just within the first

hour Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said it had racked up a staggering 13

billion u.s. dollars in sales on its tenth annual Singles' Day event on

single-stage China's version of Cyber Monday and Black Friday shoppers were

eager to shop for items such as cosmetics clothes and furniture from

200,000 different brands Alibaba says over 500 million users are

expected to browse shopping sites such as Teemo and to bow over the 24 hour

period consumers also rare goods worth some 8.16 billion dollars within 18

minutes beating alibaba's entire day sale in 2014 last year Alibaba posted

Singles' Day sales totaling thirty point eight billion dollars almost four times

the online sales made on Cyber Monday in the US the Chinese e-commerce giant

started a single say shopping event on November 11 2009 Singles' Day was started

in the 1990s by Chinese college students as a celebration for people without

romantic partners while China's economy has been slowing due to the impact of

the us-china trade dispute Alibaba Singles' Day trading performance has

drawn attention as a gauge of consumer vitality and the world's second-biggest

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