Posts Tagged: taobao


China mcommerce

Mobile Commerce Worth $4.29 Billion in Q1 in China, But One Company Dominates

We know that mobile commerce in China was worth $7.8 billion in 2012 – and is expected to rise...

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  • May 21, 2013
  • at 5:43 pm
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Jack Ma’s Last Speech as Alibaba CEO

Last Friday in Hangzhou, China, Alibaba celebrated Taobao’s tenth anniversary (pictures below)...

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  • May 13, 2013
  • at 11:30 am
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China’s Top 10 Smartphone Apps for Android and iOS

Chinese research firm iResearch recently released its breakdown of China’s mobile market in Ja...

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  • May 6, 2013
  • at 10:00 am
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Sina Weibo Has Already Added Taobao Ads in Wake of Alibaba Investment

Well, that didn’t take long. Just days after the announcement of Alibaba’s huge investme...

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  • April 30, 2013
  • at 11:56 pm
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Alibaba launches Juhuasuan in Hong Kong and Taiwan

In a Challenge to Groupon, Alibaba Takes Daily Deals to Hong Kong and Taiwan

China’s top e-commerce player, Alibaba, also runs the nation’s leading daily deals site. Run und...

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  • April 8, 2013
  • at 11:44 am
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China’s Alibaba Refocuses its AliExpress Site as a Global Shopping Marketplace

Alibaba has restructured and refocused its English-language AliExpress site so that it focuses more ...

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  • March 28, 2013
  • at 7:56 pm
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Alibaba’s Jack Ma Talks E-Commerce, Ecosystems, Slams the Broken “Amazon Model” (VIDEO)

242 million Chinese people shop online, and a great many of them do so on e-commerce sites run by Ch...

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  • March 21, 2013
  • at 4:30 pm
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Prices on the Rise? New Tax Policy May Make Chinese E-Commerce Sites Pricier

Late last week I wrote about how e-commerce sites in China evade taxation by not providing official ...

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  • March 13, 2013
  • at 1:30 pm
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Why Alibaba’s Future Looks Bright

With founder Jack Ma stepping down from the role of CEO, skeptics will doubt whether Alibaba can con...

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  • May 21, 2013
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With 1.4 Million Users, Taobao Launches Hong Kong Official Site

E-shopping marketplace Taobao has been aggressively expanding to Hong Kong and Taiwan. With 1.4 mill...

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  • May 10, 2013
  • at 5:15 pm
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Hashiji is a Chinese E-Commerce Startup That Makes Me Want to Buy Something

New e-commerce startups in China are a dime a dozen, so when I come across one it must offer somethi...

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  • May 1, 2013
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Why Did Alibaba Invest $586 Million in Sina Weibo?

Yesterday we learned that the rumors that had been swirling for months were true: e-commerce giant A...

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  • April 30, 2013
  • at 9:30 am
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Coffee Chat: How E-commerce King Taobao is Expanding Out of China (Live Blog)

Up next on stage at Startup Asia is Daphne Lee, director of international business for Chinese e-com...

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  • April 5, 2013
  • at 2:51 pm
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How E-Commerce King Taobao Is Expanding Out of China (Startup Asia Preview)

Taobao is a household name in China, being the online marketplace that first got the country going n...

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  • March 21, 2013
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China’s Top E-Commerce Sites Saw 600% Growth in Mobile Shopping Last Year

We know that China’s netizens love shopping online – and collectively spend about $40,00...

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  • March 15, 2013
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Alibaba Appoints Jonathan Lu as New CEO

Alibaba Appoints Jonathan Lu as New CEO, Will Take Ma’s Desk on May 10

Jack Ma, the founder of China’s top e-commerce company, announced a couple of months ago that ...

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  • March 11, 2013
  • at 2:47 pm
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