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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 co-operated by [...]

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China Online Display Advertising Reached 18 Billion in 2009

January 15, 2010

According to the latest CR-Nielsen report, China online display advertising market reached 18 billion yuan in 2009, up 36.9% from 2008.
The top 5 online display advertising industries

automobiles: 16.1%
fashion: 14.8%
entertainment: 10.6%
computer and electronic products: 10.3%
FMCG: 8.4%.

Top 5 Online Display Advertisers
Top 5 Advertisers with the highest online advertising spend:

Jiayuan.com (online dating): 520 million yuan
VANCL (online apparel): 510 [...]

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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 electronics
video games / accessories
Digital camera / digital recorder /

So far, over [...]

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Google.cn Has Already Stopped Censoring Search Results

January 13, 2010

Google this morning issued a statement regarding a “big decision” about Google China operation,
We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within [...]

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Chinese Hackers Retaliate and Hacked Iran Website

January 12, 2010

Baidu.com was not accessible this morning and possibly hacked by Iranian Cyber Army, and Chinese hackers retaliate back!
A friend from China pinged me of this site iribu.ir (seems like an education institution page), whose page is currently replaced by Chinese hackers’ page. This is a cached page from Bing on Jan 10 showing what it [...]

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Baidu Hacked by Iranian Cyber Army?

January 12, 2010

Around 7:20 this morning, many posts at webmaster forums reported that Baidu.com and its subdomains could not be accessed. It’s already working when this post is being published.

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Top Online Travel Booking Websites in China

January 11, 2010

According to a latest China online travel booking report by iResearch, China’s total online travel booking revenue in 2009 has increased to $3.74 billion yuan (about US $548 million) from year 2008’s $2.94 billion yuan (US$431 million), up 27.2%.
The top online travel booking websites (by revenue) are:

Ctrip: 55.6%
eLong.com: 9.9%
mangocity.com: 6.2%
118114.cn: 5.8%
12580.com: 3.2%
etpass.com: 3.1%
17u.com: 2.7%
aoyou.com: 1.5%
Others: [...]

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Baidu Testing New Search Interface?

January 8, 2010

An article at cnBeta.com earlier this week shared (link broken) a screen capture of a new Baidu search interface, which is similar to Google’s:

Baidu could be testing this new UI among a small group of searchers as no one else yet has reported similar UI.

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Chinese Consumer Social Technographics Profile

January 7, 2010

It’s critical for companies to profile targeted audience and determine what kind of relationship you want to build with them, based on what they are ready for.
Forrester’s Social Technographics classifies consumers into six overlapping levels of participation:
Here is the handy (and free) consumer profile tool you can try to get some idea.

Bars indicate the percentage [...]

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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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