By Xu Shenglan Some Internet shopkeepers on taobao.com said they felt vulnerable to professional blackmailers who threaten sellers with bad ratings if they do not refund money for purchases and pay "compensation." Consumers on taobao can give feedback ratings and comments on merchandise they rec...
By Zhu Shanshan As China鈥檚 largest e-commerce website, taobao.com broke record sales of 80.9 billion yuan in the first half of this year. Some online users are seeking to make a fortune from Taobao, which in Chinese means 鈥渓ooking for treasure鈥�. Unlike Taobao shop sellers, there is an emerg...
Mid-year statistics released by Taobao, China's largest online retail shopping destination, show that e-commerce has reached a level of penetration that is satisfying the wide-ranging daily needs of consumers in China.
Taobao.com, the online auction unit of China's leading e-commerce company, Alibaba Group, yesterday confirmed that it has set up a subsidiary in Beijing, the capital of China. The firm appointed Wu Yongming as the general manager of the Beijing branch, which currently has more than 300 employees. The new...
By Zhao Qian Supervision and safety has been stepped up on China鈥檚 most popular shopping website, Taobao.com, with a new system launched yesterday to help stamp out fraud and prohibited deals. The updated system identifies fraudulent dealings more efficiently and requires sellers to sign a let...
Microsoft Corp recently reached an agreement with China's hot C2C and B2C shopping site Taobao.com to integrate Taobao's online shopping search engine into Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), the latest version of its web browser, sources reported. Under the terms of agreement, IE8 will enable three specific online...
Taobao, China's largest consumer e-commerce company, today announced that its parent company, Alibaba Group, will invest RMB5 billion (US$732 million[1]) over the next five years to further strengthen the Taobao marketplace (www.taobao.com) as the shopping destination of choice for Chinese consumers.
Taobao.com, China's leading consumer e-commerce website and a division of the Alibaba Group, released key metrics for the first half of 2007. Key developments and trends include
With market share of more than 67 percent of China's online shoppers, Taobao.com opens doors to large manufacturers and retailers
The Alibaba Group, a global e-commerce leader and the largest e-commerce company in China, today announced that it has appointed Andrew Tsuei as a non-executive director to the boards of directors of Alibaba.com, the group's B2B division, and Taobao.com, the group's C2C division.