Taobao

Men twice as likely to be 'shopaholics', says Taobao report

22 May 2013

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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Alibaba chief steps down as $294 mn deal announced

11 May 2013

Alibaba chief Jack Ma stepped down on Friday before a potential initial public offering as the Chinese online retail giant announced a $294 million stake purchase in digital mapping firm AutoNavi...

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Marijuana being sold on e-commerce site Taobao, report says

15 Apr 2013

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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Netizens defend free WeChat service and Taobao marks record transaction

2 Apr 2013

Profiles
Southern Metropolis Daily*
A video report on how Shangba in Guangdong deals with its stigma as “cancer village.”
Duowei*

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Veteran company executive Jonathan Lu takes the helm at Alibaba

11 Mar 2013

Alibaba Group, China's largest e-commerce firm, yesterday named Jonathan Lu Zhaoxi as its new chief executive effective from May 10, replacing founder Jack Ma Yun.

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Alizila crunched the numbers on China's online shoppers

28 Feb 2013

Presently only 40 per cent of Chinese internet users have made an online purchase, but that number is set to grow fast.

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Alibaba writ claims four Hong Kong companies stole its names

Alibaba, which runs the popular online shipping site Taobao, is suing Officeplus Company for using the Chinese characters for Taobao in its company name.

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Alibaba to sharpen business focus through restructuring

Mainland e-commerce giant Alibaba is going in for a major restructuring by splitting the company into 25 units, each led by a general manager, chief executive Jack Ma Yun told the staff in an...

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Taobao vendors cash in on iPhone 'consumer vanity' market

Wily vendors on Chinese-commerce site Taobao have been having a field day selling fake iPhone “signatures” to users of Tencent QQ, a popular instant messaging program.

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Chinese farmers turn to e-commerce to sell medicinal herbs

Farmers in Guanyeping village, in China's Henan province, are using e-commerce via Taobao to sell herbs for Chinese medicine, significantly improving their standard of living.

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Alibaba celebrates 1.2 million users on Taobao in Hong Kong

Mainland e-commerce giant Alibaba Group said its customer-to-customer online trading platform Taobao has been growing robustly in Hong Kong.

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COMMERCE

Record numbers of shoppers take advantage of 'Singles Day'

Any possible regrets about being single appeared to take a back seat to shopping yesterday, with a record number of people taking advantage of big discounts on Singles' Day, which appropriately...

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