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Tag Archives: Alibaba
E-Commerce is Booming in China Says Alibaba Head of Marketing
Linda Kozlowski heads marketing and customer experience globally for Alibaba.com the world’s leading business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce platform. Alibaba.com is headquartered in Hangzhou, China with operations in more than 240 countries and 23 million users worldwide. I asked Linda what are … Continue reading
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Tagged Alibaba, B2B, China, e-commerce, interviews
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Online Advertising in China – Where to Place Your Bets
According to iResearch in 2011 Q3 China’s online advertising market reached RMB 13.7 billion – an increase of 23% year-over-year. Search engine advertising has steadily been increasing; however the area to watch is online video. Online video in p
Posted in Consumer Intelligence, Data & Facts
Tagged advertising, Alibaba, data, P&G, Procter & Gamble, television, Unilever
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Alibaba Group’s Taobao T-Mall Now Sells More Than Mobile Phones…
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Tagged Alibaba, China Consumer, China Luxury
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Where Do China’s Luxury Purchases End Up? The Answer May Not Be As Clear As Black or White.
China is the world’s second largest luxury goods consumer market. All it takes is one visit to Shanghai, and even an inexperienced visitor will feel that he or she has arrived at the epicenter of Chinese luxury purchasing. Ye
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Tagged Alibaba, China Consumer, China Luxury, Geely, Gucci, Netease
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WSJ Ranks China’s Top Companies in 2010
For those of you who have not yet stumbled upon the Wall Street Journal’s Asia 200 Interactive map, please check it out here. The interactive map all
E-Commerce & China Internet Search – WSJ.com
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Connecting Chinese Businesses with Global Consumers | Interview with Alan Tien, GM of PayPal China
China’s e-commerce market represents a $38.5 billion dollar opportunity. In particular, the B2C market is experiencing tremendous growth.
Which Chinese cities spend the most online? Here are the top 10
Alibaba Group’s Taobao.com just released a report outlining the varying levels of e-commerce spend in China’s cities. I translated one of the graphs into English above, but for my Chin
Introduction to E-Commerce in China | ReadWriteWeb
Last September, China’s most successful consumer-to-consumer online marketplace, Taobao.com launched a massive online promotion. By offering exorbitantly low prices on a series of brand name consumer electronics
Some Thoughts on Foreign Internet Companies in China
I read a fantastic article last week on the Advertising Age website entitled, “The Internet Does Not Rise Above Nations and Cultures.” The article, by @wolfgroupasia of












