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Mobile Shopping Gets a Boost From Tighter Weibo-Taobao Integration
Jim EricksonA Taobao-friendly version of Weibo, China’s most popular microblogging service, will soon be available, the first concrete manifestation of closer ties between Taobao’s parent, Alibaba...
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Alibaba’s Laiwang Chat App Seeks Celebs, Companies as Users
Melanie LeeAlibaba Group’s Laiwang mobile messaging app is being developed so that brands, companies and celebrities can connect with followers by signing up for public accounts.The public-accounts...
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Alibaba Giving Away Smartphones to Speed M-commerce Adoption
Melanie LeeAlibaba Group is pushing millions of merchants selling on its Taobao shopping marketplaces to adopt mobile e-commerce through a RMB 500 million ($82 million) investment program that includes...
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Alibaba’s Laiwang App Draws Over 10 Million Users in One Month
Melanie LeeAmid heavy promotion, Alibaba Group’s new mobile-messaging app has attracted more than 10 million users in the past month alone, the e-commerce company announced today.At a press conference...
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Cab Rides, Movie Tickets Can Now be Purchased with Alipay Wallet Mobile App
Melanie LeeAlipay users will now able to pay for their taxi rides and movie tickets using the Alipay’s mobile wallet application, highlighting the online e-payment company’s push into offline...
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Mobile E-commerce Increasingly Part of Chinese Consumers Lives
Melanie LeeChinese consumers are increasingly using their mobile phones to shop online, pay for goods and services and watch videos as smartphones become ever more commonplace, according to a new...
View ArticleTaobao Planning a Sale for Mobile Users
Melanie LeeAlibaba Group e-commerce platforms Taobao Marketplace and Tmall.com are gearing up for a 24-hour sale to encourage more Chinese consumers to use their mobile devices to buy everyday goods...
View ArticleCashless Society Looms With Alipay Wallet App [Video]
Melanie LeeMobile e-commerce is booming in China like nowhere else. According to a recent KPMG survey, more than half of Internet users in the PRC have used their mobile phones instead of cash to pay...
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China M-commerce Having its Hockey Stick Moment [Infographic]
Jim EricksonMobile e-commerce in China is in its hockey stick growth phase, no question. Steven Millward at Tech in Asia pointed out this week that the amount mainlanders are expected to spend this...
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Everything You Wanted to Know About 020 But Forgot to Ask
Melanie LeeA few years ago, the mention of the term “O2O” elicited head-scratching stares from most of China’s half a billion Internet users. But today, these three characters are seen everywhere in...
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Alibaba Group Gearing up to Launch Mobile Phone Services
Melanie LeeAlibaba Group aims to launch its first telecom services in mainland China in June.The company is working with China Telecom, China Unicom and China Mobile to provide users telecom services...
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"Idle Fish" App is a Chinese Flea Market in a Smartphone
Susan WangHan Qiaoling, a young mother in Shandong Province, found a digital solution to a common problem facing stay-at-home moms. To help relieve the tedium of watching over her one-year-old infant...
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Alipay Wallet Opens Its Platform to Merchants and Developers
Melanie LeeAlipay Wallet is stepping its efforts to push mobile commerce to its millions of Chinese users by giving merchants and software developers access to programming tools that will allow them to...
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Alipay, Huawei Roll Out Biometric Security for Mobile Payments
Melanie LeeUsers of a new Huawei smartphone equipped with a fingerprint reader will be able to make mobile e-payments without passwords using Alipay’s Wallet app, Alipay said in a press release...
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How Are Online Retailers Adapting to the Mobile-first Era? [Video]
Stuart WhitmoreOn Apr. 21, 2015, the Internet faced Mobilegeddon. Not the latest Michael Bay disaster flick, nor a newly unearthed Mayan prophecy, but a change in the way Google ranks search results on...
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