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e-Commerce in China: online sales boomed in 2009

Online sales in China almost doubled in the first nine months of last year, official data showed recently, as China becomes more switched on and the younger generation of shoppers bare more confident in Internet shopping [...]
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Watch Seth Godin’s “Why Tribes, not money or factories, will Change the World” talk at TED

Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change. He urges us to do so [...]
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e-Commerce in China: online shopping totals over 14 billion US dollars in 2008

The annual trade volume of China's online shopping market in 2008 surpassed the amount of 100 billion yuan (over 14 billion US dollars) for the first time, totaling 120 billion yuan, up by 128.5 percent year on year. Compared with the previous year, the growth rate rose by nearly 40 percentage points. The data come from the '2008 China Online Shopping Research Report' , jointly published by iResearch Consulting Group, a domestic polling organization, and taobao.com. The report also shows that, in 2008, the number of registered online shoppers in China increased by 185 percent from the previous year, reaching 120 million customers...
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Internet in China: Alibaba to invest over 730 million US dollars in online auction unit

Taobao, the online auction unit of China's e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, announced the parent company would invest in it 5 billion yuan (732 million U.S. dollars) over the next five years. Taobao president Lu Zhaoxi said the investment showed its confidence in the long-term Internet development and economic growth in China [...]
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Internet in China: Taobao Transaction Volume Tripled in First Half of 2007

Taobao, the leader in Chinese C2C market, released a report on shopping at Taobao in the first half of 2007. Since Taobao has gained about 72% market share in first quarter of 2007, according to iResearch, Taobao’s report would help us to know the general picture of Chinese online shopping market.
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