Oct 13
It seems Taobao’s decision to block Baidu (百度) searching and indexing its contents is not execessively rush. Baidu (百度) eventually released a tool for Baidu C2C’s users, which help its customers to export all items data from their shops on other C2C platform, of course, mainly from Taobao, and upload to Baidu’s platform.
According to Sina.com, the data migration only take several minutes. It significantly reduces the cost for a big seller to try Baidu’s platform. The sellers have built their sales records and credit points on Taobao for years, maybe Baidu (百度) will also acknowledge sellers’ credit points on Taobao, eBay Eachnet has tried to do similar things in early this year.
Taobao definitely feels the heat and its holding company, Alibaba Group, has immediately announced a RMB 5 billion investment plan over the next five years last week. It also decided to keep its services free to its users.
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\\ tags: Alibaba.com, Baidu, C2C, China Internet, Taobao
Aug 16
Dare you to tell us what your last last last job will be?
Alibaba chief executive officer David Wei told the press media that Alibaba.com would be his last job after attending APEC in early August. The remark dismissed a rumor that Mr Wei had planned to start his own business outside Alibaba group.
Mr Wei said despite the fact that he was not one of the 18 pioneers who set up the China-based Internet company, he still regarded himself as the group’s founder.
He said that he has joined Alibaba.com seven years ago and took the B2B company to IPO in Hong Kong by the end of 2007.
TG does not even has a very clear mind to tell what’s going to happen tomorrow, not to mention making such a bold statement in front of mass media.
Obviously, TG does not have the talent and wisdom to become a CEO!
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\\ tags: Alibaba.com, B2B marketplaces, China Internet
May 19
我們默哀 也送上祝福
Today begins three days of national mourning for earthquake victims. So far, there are more than 300,00 victims and the search for survivors still goes on.
Alibaba group of companies - Alibaba China, Yahoo China, Taobao, Alisoft, Alimama, along with other China major websites such as Sina and eBay China etc, turn their homepages to black to pay respect to the victims.
Hong Kong will lower flags at half staff from today. The official death toll stands at nearly 32,500 from the original quake – which was revised upwards to 8.0 on the Richter scale – that rattled Sichuan province.
written by Aliuser
\\ tags: Alibaba, Alibaba.com, Hong Kong
May 03
Locally-listed B2B platform Alibaba.com formed a strategic alliance with Infomedia India Limited several days ago. The inititative has undoubtedly got their India competitors into nerves. They reacted by enlisting companies into their list pages aggresssively.
TradeIndia.com and Indiamart.com have embraced on India B2B marketplace for some years.
Randomly, they’ve added ContentNext (contentSutra’s parent company) in two categories: “Studios, Film Production & Multimedia Production Services” and “Advertising Agencies, Consultants & Designers”. Other mails and reminders were received 2nd Nov, Jan 16th and more recently on April 15th… says contentSutra.com.
As an internet user, TG prefers to see competition in positive manner, which will benefit the industry and provide more options for us. Yet, competition should be conducted in compliance with internet best practices — No spam. Having said that, users are the ultimate decision makers who opt for yes or no!
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\\ tags: Alibaba, Alibaba.com, B2B marketplaces, User Experience Design