While the US has the largest and most established e-commerce market in the world, it's no secret that Asia and, specifically, China, is catching up fast.
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3 Jun 2013
A colleague recently sent me an e-mail that left me gaping at the screen. It was about a new e-commerce fashion website, Bitfash.com "Oh, another online shopping start-up," I thought. But there's...
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Men are twice as likely as women to become "uncontrollable shopaholics", most shopping is done at night and Jiangsu, not Shanghai, is home to the country's most adventurous shoppers.
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Net profit jumped to four billion yuan (HK$5.05 billion), from 2.9 billion yuan a year earlier. Revenue increased 40.4 per cent to 13.5 billion yuan.
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Greg Stockdale and his wife Julie consider themselves fortunate parents. They get to have regular meals with their two-year-old daughter Kelly, and take her to the park and swimming pool almost...
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The value of Alibaba Group continues to be an object of speculation after profit at the mainland's biggest e-commerce company more than doubled in the quarter that ended December 31.
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When Shenzhen mother Luo Qing wants to buy products for her one-year-old son her favoured option is haitao, or shopping directly from overseas websites. The 27-year-old online media editor spends...
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They say you can get anything online in China these days – from your fake vanity iPhone “logins” to quirkier purchases such as
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We're seeing some interesting moves today on the dynamic e-commerce front, with new signals that Sina intends to make a serious play into the space using its popular Weibo microblogging service as...
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Baidu, the mainland's biggest internet search service provider, is set to work with a local online retailer backed by American supermarket giant Wal-Mart to tap the country's fast-growing e-...
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Alibaba Group chairman Jack Ma Yun predicts that the mainland's e-commerce market is entering a "golden age", which will see 30 per cent of total retail sales moving online in the next five years...
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Conventional wisdom says that people who buy stocks after reading about a company in the newspapers have probably waited too late.
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