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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. [...]

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.

Benz sold 205 smart in three and half hours on Taobao

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About two weeks ago on Sep 6 2010, Benz put up its 200 “smart” cars on Taobao‘s Groupon-like website offering 23% discount. Mediaedge:cia was the agency behind this campaign and the plan was to sell 200 “smart” cars on Taobao in three weeks’ time. Surprisingly, all cars were sold out in three and half hours. [...]

China Online Advertising Summary in Q1 2010

China’s Q1 online advertising spend in 2010 showed strong growth, with an increase of 85.4% to 6.36 billion yuan (USD 931 million) compared to Q1 spend in 2009. Baidu leads China’s online advertising market in quarter one in 2010 with total sales of 1.293 billion yuan. The next five are: Taobao: 590m yuan Google China: [...]

Taobao Announced Plan to Open its Massive Data

Taobao announced today in Shanghai its plan to open up its massive raw data, “Taobao DataCube“. Personal and corporate data will be protected. Data are provided in two ways: Directly from Taobao DataCube From third party research organizations The data from DataCube include: Industry size and trend Buyers’ characteristics such as demographics, geo-locations, and shopping [...]

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 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

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 [...]

Taobao Sales during Golden Week Reached 8 Billion RMB

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 [...]

Taobao Quietly Launched Social Network “Tao-Jianghu.com”

Taobao has quietly launched its social network “Tao Jianghu”. “Tao” is from “Taobao”; “Jianghu” is the milieu, environment, or sub-community, often fictional, in which many Chinese classical wuxia stories are set. So far, I can’t see any links on Taobao.com to this SNS site. The platform is built by Comsenz which just looks like another [...]

Zhang Li Find Money by Selling Time Online

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 [...]

Taobao Field Guide

Taobao as part of Alibaba Group, is the largest online shopping marketplace for consumers in China. Taobao Field Guide is for people living in China, or anybody who is interested in the wacky ways of China’s largest online store. They offer a Field Guides to getting your Taobao account and how to get the most [...]

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