China mobile shopping market total transactions reached RMB168.39 billion (US$27.3 billion) in the second quarter of 2014, representing 26.8% of total online shopping transactions in the same period in China, an increase of 24.6% compared with the first quarter.
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China Online Shopper Spent $12.5 Billion Buying from Oversea E-tailers
Some Chinese shoppers buy products on oversea online retailers, which will be delivered directly to their Chinese address. These group of users are commonly known as Haitao in China.
Why Wechat Marketing Metrics Could All Be Lies
Wechat recently started displaying the total number of views and likes for Wechat official account articles; the transparency from Wechat seems to be helpful identifying the true value of a Wechat official account and quality of considering some articles from accounts with hundreds of thousands of fans only have a few hundred views in one […]
China OTA Market Transactions Close to $10 Billion in Q2 2014
China online travel OTA market transactions reached RMB61.41 billion (US$9.94 billion) with a YoY growth rate of 17.1%; total revenue reached RMB 3.24 billion (US$520 million), a YoY increase of 19%.
2014 Industry Report: Ecommerce Takes China by Storm
Over 600 million internet users and an annual ecommerce revenue growth rate of 120%, makes China the fastest growing and soon-to-be the largest ecommerce market in the world.
Alibaba Opening Up Its Search Technology
Aliyun, Alibaba Group’s cloud computing services company, announced a search product, OpenSearch.
China Online Shopping in Rural Areas Outpaced Those in Cities
Growth in online shopping in counties and villages in China has outpaced those in cities, becoming a new engine that is further driving China’s domestic consumption, according to research from Alibaba Group. It said in its first county-level economy and e-commerce forum in its headquarters in Hangzhou on Thursday that the overall online shopping market […]
PHOTOS: How China Internet Companies Advertise in Rural Areas
Wall ads in rural areas prove to be a good way of penetrating into lower tier cities; let’s take a look at some of the wall ads of China internet companies.
Tmall Sold Over One Million Smartphones in One Day
According to Tmall’s official data released on Weibo, there are 1,039.9 thousand smartphones sold on 18 Jun online shopping promotion day, more than all offline smartphone retail channels’ combined one day sales.
10 Charts to Tell You Almost Everything About Alibaba Group: China’s E-commerce Empire
Alibaba Group is the largest online and mobile commerce company in the world in terms of gross merchandise volume (GMV) in 2013, according to the IDC GMV Report. They operate their ecosystem as a platform for third parties, and they do not engage in direct sales, compete with their merchants or hold inventory.
Monitor China Online Shoppping Trend with Alibaba Shopping Price Indices
Alibaba publishes a price index for online shopping, called Alibaba Shopping Price Indices or aSPI. This series include two indices:
China’s Top 100 Best E-Commerce Cities
Alibaba Ali Institute and Chinese Academy of Information Technology jointly started “E-Commerce Development Index” research in 2010. This year, Ali Institute studies 294 cities and released “China’s Top 100 Best E-Commerce Cities 2013” report.
Alibaba Investing SGD 313 Million in Singapore Post
Alibaba announced through its official Weibo that it will invest SGD 313 million (about USD 249 million) in Singapore Post (SingPost) for 10.35% share in SingPost.
The Launch and Fall of Burberry’s Tmall Flagship Store
Burberry officially launches Tmall flagship store on Apr 23 2014. This is the first time that an international Luxury brand enters into the third-party online shopping platform, which is some quite surprising. According to its recent sales report of the website, its flagship store on Tmall sold only 132 products in 18 days, including 32 […]
China Mobile Shopping in Rapid Development
In the first quarter of 2014, China mobile shopping market total transactions reached 78.02 billion yuan (USD 12.53 billion), with an growth of 13% from the previous quarter, an increase of 207% compared with the first quarter in 2013 according to Analysis International.