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Taobao Expands into Offline Retail Business

January 18, 2010

Last week, Taobao announced its entry into the off-line business, authorizing supermarkets, chain stores, and school shops to become Taobao’s official shopping service stores. The first line of 150 off-line authorized stores opened on January 16, 2010. Taobao plans to open over 30,000 authorized Taobao stores. It is reported that Hangzhou Taobao off-line stores are [...]

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Taobao Launched Electronics Mall

January 13, 2010

Taobao just launched Taobao Electronics Mall, a B2C platform for 13 categories of electronic products: Mobile phone mp3 player / mp4 player / ipod / digital recroder Laptop Computer and accessories / imaging products Electronics accessories Office equipment Memory card / storage devices Personal care / health / massage equipment audio-visual appliances kitchen appliances household [...]

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China Online Shopping Forecast: B2C To Grow Faster

January 6, 2010

Analysys International, a tech & media consultancy firm based in China, released its forecast comparing China’s C2C and B2C online retail market. Analysis predicts more growth in B2C online retail business than C2C.

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China Online Shopping Statistics 2009 Part 3 – Top C2C Websites

December 17, 2009

Here are the top four C2C online shopping websites in China according to CNNIC with market penetration rate, Taobao.com: 81.5% Paipai.com: 10.5% Youa.Baidu.com: 2% Eachnet.com: 1.8% Online shopping Penetration Rate by City Online shopping top B2C websites China Online Shopping Report 2009

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China Online Shopping Statistics 2009 Part 2 – Top B2C Websites

December 15, 2009

The top B2C online shopping websites in China with market penetration rate: dangdang.com: 10.4% amazon.cn: 4.5% 360buy.com: 3.5% redbaby.com.cn: 1.6% 99read.com: 0.6% cncard.com: 0.5% m18.com: 0.5% newegg.com.cn: 0.3% Part 1: Penetration Rate by City

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China Online Shopping Statistics 2009 Part 1 – Penetration Rate by City

December 9, 2009

East coast cities (shown below in blue) showed high penetration rate of online shopping but the west (in brown) is a fast growing market with high potential. Beijing: 51.3% Shanghai: 52.6% Guangzhou: 35.2% Wuhan: 38.9% Xiamen: 36.7% Hangzhou: 34.7% Shenzhen: 34.1% Xi’an: 33.3% Jiujiang: 32.3% Tianjin: 31.8% Chengdu: 29.0% Luoyang: 27.0% Zigong: 24.0% Dongguan: 23.3% [...]

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China Online Shopping Report 2009: Apparel and Home Acccessories the most popular

December 7, 2009

By the end of June 2009, 26% (87.88 million) of China Internet users shopped online during the first half of 2009, with an increase of 38.9% compared with the same period of last year. “26%” is not a fantastic number; but, guess what? Over 85.7% China netizens had searched for product information during the first [...]

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Baidu Online Payment Baifubao Allows Top-up by Phone Top-up Cards

December 4, 2009

I’m not sure you realize many Chinese internet companies share one common strategy – go where the money is. Baidu, the largest Chinese search engine in the world, launched “YouA” to compete with Taobao and “Baifubao” to be in competition with PayPal China and Alipay (under Alibaba). Baifubao recently becomes innovative by supporting topping up [...]

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Taobao Launched Windows 7 Application in Beta

October 23, 2009

Taobao launched its desktop application just made for Windows 7 OS though the final release could be installed on Windows 2000/XP/Vista as well. Called “Ren Wo Tao” (direct translation is “as me dig”), this desktop application is based on Microsoft’s WPF technology combined with Taobao website functions. Ren Wo Tao (Beta) will support extensions: Combining [...]

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Taobao Sales during Golden Week Reached 8 Billion RMB

October 10, 2009

China’s Golden Week (China’s National Day) online shopping market in China was heating up again. According to Taobao data, for the two weeks’ period including the National Day Golden Week, Taobao turnover reached nearly 8.0 billion yuan (or USD 1.17 billion), 120% increase compared with the same period in 2008. The National Day period, Taobao [...]

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Google China Launched Product Search Beta

June 15, 2009

Google China has announced the beta launch of  products search, which covers hundreds of e-commerce websites including its competitor’s online C2C store youa.baidu.com. Google China products search interface is quite similar to that of Google Products search: Not surprisingly, Taobao ranks high in most product specific searches. No doubt Google product search is helpful; yet [...]

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Disney China Launched B2C Business Integrating Alipay Payment

April 12, 2009

Department of The Walt Disney consumer goods in Shanghai, announced the launch of China’s first authorized Disney B2C online shopping platform “The Disney on Little Master” (little master in Chinese: xiaozhuren) officially entering the online shopping market in China. The reporter found that, although this is the first time Disney is in B2C business, it [...]

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Zhang Li Find Money by Selling Time Online

March 14, 2009

via China.org.cn, Zhang Li, a sophomore student at a vocational school in the central Hubei Province, opened a Web store at Taobao.Com, a leading e-shopping Web site in China, to sell “her spare times,” Hubei based newspaper Changjiang Times reported Tuesday. There was another Beijing girl Chen Xiao who opened a similar store on Taobao [...]

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Alipay Partners with Japanese Tenso with Shipping Solution to Chinese Consumers

March 3, 2009

Alipay, part of Alibaba Group, has announced partnership with Tenso of Netprice Group enabling Chinese consumers to buy from Japan with shipping solution. The Chinese consumers can just enter the Tenso.com shipping address on the Japanese online shopping site where they place the order. Tenso will do the rest and deliver the products swiftly.The forwarding [...]

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About Alipay of Alibaba Group

March 3, 2009

Alipay.com Co.,Ltd (AliPay) is China’s leading online payment service by both number of users and total transaction volume. A member of the Alibaba Group, it enables individuals and businesses to securely, easily and quickly send and receive payments online. AliPay works like an escrow service, solving the issue of settlement risk in China. Since its [...]

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