China Internet Marketing Trends, Statistics & Insights
Google Shihui
Google China launched a daily deal aggregation website in beta named “Shihui” which means economical and practical in Chinese.
Users can browse or search daily deals in a specific city by site, product category, price and discount on Google Shihui.
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.
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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:
According to Sohu IT News, deals will be available in Shanghai and Beijing first with a focus on local food and lifestyle.
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”. [Read more...]
