Juhuasuan

Alibaba will bring some of its services from Koubei and Ele.me to Juhuasuan to take on Tencent-backed Meituan.

Dianping, a Chinese amalgamation of Yelp and Groupon, will soon complete a US$850 million funding round, according to QQ Tech.

Alibaba highlighted the importance of online travel booking today by spinning off its travel sites into a separate business.

Tencent (HKG:0700) is the world’s fourth largest web company, and Alibaba is on the verge of history’s largest tech IPO. Both of these behemoth companies occupy many of the same verticals

It was almost exactly a year ago that former Alibaba GM Yan Limin was arrested by police on suspicion of accepting bribes. This morning, a Hangzhou court has ruled that

The added value to the set-top box and smart TVs from shopping is no more than a gimmick. It’s poorly implemented and it just doesn’t fit. What do you think?

It’s time to check back in with China’s massive daily deals industry and see how all the Groupon-like sites are progressing in Q1 2013. One of the key findings is

China’s top e-commerce player, Alibaba, also runs the nation’s leading daily deals site. Run under the familiar Taobao brand name and URL as Juhuasuan, the site is today expanding to

We’re following China’s daily deals market very closely, digging into quarterly market share data as soon as we can get our hands on it. Today it’s time for Q4 2012

After the initial kerfuffle over Groupon clones in China a couple of years ago, the daily deals sector in the country ended up being dominated by a familiar name: Taobao.