SubscribeCOO of Taobao Talked About How Taobao Tackles E-Commerce Challenges in China
Zhang Yong, COO of Taobao.com, talked about the general market environment of online shopping in China, business of Taobao, its challenges and strategies in an interview with Knowledge@Wharton website.
According to Zhang,
After five years of development, [Taobao's] trading volume had reached RMB 43.3 billion (US$5.6 billion) in 2007. For the first half of this [...]
Baidu E-commerce Platform Is Finally Online
Today, Baidu finally rolls out its much-anticipated C2C e-commerce platform, a little more than one year after Baidu announced its ambitious C2C plan. This e-commerce platform is called Youa.com, together with Baifubao.com, Baidu’s online payment platform, they are the only services by Baidu which don’t use a domain name under Baidu.com.
During its private test, [...]
The Coming War Between Baidu and Taobao
It is inevitable that there will be a war between Baidu C2C service and Alibaba’s Taobao when Baidu announced its C2C plan in last year. Taobao is dominating the C2C market in China, even after Tencent’s Paipai entered this market. But this time, Taobao’s rival is Baidu, which is dominating search market in China, and [...]
ivsou.com: A Visual Shopping Search Engine from China
Like.com, the first visual shopping search engine, has had robust traffic growth and headed toward profitability, while in China, ivsou.com aims to be a successful Chinese like.com.
Similar to Like.com, ivsou.com, launched in last December, offers a visual product search engine service, it means you can find items based on images instead of text, it [...]
Maifou: The online Shops Platform from Comsenz
Comsez, the developer of Discuz! which is the most popular online forum software in China, launched a new service called Maifou.net. Maifou.net is a free hosted online shop service based on ECShop, the open source online shop software acquired by Comsenz in August.
Last week, Baidu announced its ecommerce strategy to enter C2C market to [...]
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