Hurun Report, a monthly magazine best known for its China Rich List, released its China IT Rich List on September 23 2013. This is the 11th time that Hurun released the top 50 China IT Rich List. Pony Ma, Tencent’s CEO, surpassed Robin Li the first time in four years to be the richest man […]
Archives for October 2013
Mobile Consumers Favor Online Shopping Mall
Ader, a mobile advertising platform owned by renren, released its mobile internet user behavior report in 2013. It said that mobile devices became one of the important tools for getting information and mobile changed the shopping behavior. More than half mobile users shopped in online malls. 86% said they would search on mobile to get […]
Alibaba Expanding to Educational with Taobao Tongxue
Taobao educational platform Taobao Tongxue, which literally means Taobao Classmates, was launched in August 2013. It combined offline education with online alive educational videos, including K12 entrance exam, vocational training and other mainstream educational aspects. Also, Taobao Tonxue allows users to set up their own courses, as long as their uploaded courses meet Taobao’s requirements, […]
Taobao Launched Package Forwarding Service for Singapore & Malaysia
Taobao has launched package forwarding service for Singapore and Malaysia recently. When you purchase on Taobao or Tmall, your products would be send to forwarders first. It gives you flexibility to choose ship your package separately or together. You can check your package logistics information in your Taobao account. Now, the service covers Hong Kong, […]
China The Third Largest Cross-Border Online Shopping Destination
Paypal released its report on China SME cross-border e-commerce export, and it showed that China had become the third cross-border online shopping destination, right after the U.S. and the UK. But it also found that 63% China SME didn’t optimize their websites for mobile devices as mobile shopping grew more and more popular. This might lead […]
China To Promote Cross Border E-Commerce
Chinese Ministry of Commerce spokesman revealed on an e-commerce press conference on September 26, 2013 several policies regarding the development of cross-border e-commerce have been tested in pilot cities such as Shanghai. It would be promoted nationwide. At present, the number of cross-border e-commerce enterprises has reached 5,000. And the number of enterprises participated in […]
Nokia Market Share by Volume Rose to 10% in September 2013
According to Taobao and other distribution channels, Nokia’s market share by volume was over 10% in September 2013. In 2013, Lumia series sold out 4.4 million in quarter one, 5.6 million in quarter two, and 7.2 million in quarter three. In September 2013, Nokia feature phone 1050 ranked top in Taobao, with 47,230 phones sold […]