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Groupon’s Top Competitors in China

Groupon has finally launched their deal in China on Gaopeng.com, in collaboration with Tencent. One powerful feature of the website is that users can login with their qq account and accumulate rebate points (what Tencent call “Caibei” points). Considering there are over 600 million active users on QQ platform, this is no doubt a powerful integration. [...]

Groupon China Website “Gaopeng.com” Officially Launched

Groupon China’s website “GaoPeng.com”, a joint venture with Tencent, has officially launched today. Group buying deal is not available yet until March 2011. Users can sign up in one of eleven cities in China: Beijing Shanghai Guangzhou Shenzhen Chengdu Hangzhou Wuhan Chongqing Tianjin Nanjing Suzhou According to Sohu IT News, deals will be available in [...]

GROUPON China “Gaopeng” to Launch Next Week with A Unique Feature

Groupon China’s joint venture with Tencent will launch their website “Gaopeng.com” next week. A reporter at Jinghua newspaper managed to open gaopeng.com though there is no products available yet. After he registered his email, he received a note saying that “This website will be officially launched next week” signed by “Team Gaopeng”.

Top 10 Provinces by No. of Online Shopping Transactions in 2010

Guangdong is the number one province in online shopping by the number of confirmed orders, according to data shared by research firm iResearch, followed by Zhejiang and Jiangsu province.

Taobao registered users reached 370 million by end 2010

Taobao had a great year in 2010 with 370 million registered users and 800 million online products.

Taobao’s Groupon clone sold 200 million in 2010

Since Taobao launched Ju Huasuan, a Groupon-like website at ju.taobao.com last March, over 5 million users have purchased with total sale of 200 million yuan (or USD 30.22m) in 2010.

Google launched Chinese version of its merchant center service

Google Merchant Center, the place to upload your product data to Google and make it available to Google Product Search and other Google services, has just launched the Chinese version. Even if the merchant hasn’t uploaded any data to Google, users may still be able to find its products in product search which are crawled [...]

Taobao Expands into Offline Retail Business

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 [...]

Taobao Launched Electronics Mall

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 [...]

China Online Shopping Forecast: B2C To Grow Faster

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.

China Online Shopping Statistics 2009 Part 3 – Top C2C Websites

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

China Online Shopping Statistics 2009 Part 2 – Top B2C Websites

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

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

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% [...]

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

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

Taobao Launched Windows 7 Application in Beta

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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