Chinese Firm Wants More Consumers To Buy Daily Lifestyle Goods Online
Chinese e-commerce website Dangdang.com announced the formal launch of a new lifestyle department, which will be responsible for operating services such as mobile phone fee recharges, a group discount...
View ArticleSuning Adds Group Discount Buying Services To Its Arsenal
Suning.com, the e-commerce platform of Chinese electronics and home appliances retailer Suning, revealed that they will launch a new nationwide group discount buying service this week. Suning.com's new...
View ArticleChinese Group Buying Website Gains Additional USD40 Million Investment
Beijing Wangluo Tianxia Life Technology Company Limited, which is the integrated company of the Chinese group buying websites Ftuan.com and Gaopeng.com, has completed its latest financing and gained...
View ArticleOnline Chinese Retail Rivals Join Forces To Sell Books
Chinese B2C e-commerce website Dangdang.com and Alibaba's B2C Internet shopping site Tmall.com have jointly announced that Dangdang.com has opened a flagship store on Tmall.com, selling books and daily...
View ArticleKorean Company Goes Online To Attract Traveling Chinese Shoppers
Lotte's duty free store has launched the Chinese-language Internet shopping website, providing convenience to the ever-growing Chinese tourists in South Korea. According to reports in South Korean...
View ArticleMicrosoft Uses Online Shopping Channels For Latest Software Sales In China
Microsoft's official e-commerce website in China has started the sales of the new-generation Office software, with CNY699 for the home and student edition and CNY4,899 for the professional edition....
View ArticleChinese E-commerce Firm Acquires Online Fashion Startup
Chinese B2C e-commerce website Vancl.com announced that it will acquire the apparel e-commerce brand Crucco with an undisclosed amount of cash and equity. The valuation of Crucco was reportedly over...
View ArticleBritish Internet Retailer Expands To Chinese Online Sector
UK-based Net-a-Porter has launched a Chinese-language website, targeting the Asia Pacific market. Net-a-Porter currently has websites in English, French, German, and Chinese languages. The Chinese...
View ArticleMasterCard Focuses On Payment Safety With Chinese Internet Shopping Firm
Chinese e-commerce and online payment behemoth Alibaba Group has signed a memorandum of understanding with MasterCard. The MOU aims to forge joint efforts to establish an enhanced e-commerce...
View ArticleChinese E-commerce Firm Eyes Billions By 2015
According to Yan Xiaobing, vice president of the Chinese e-commerce website JD.com, the company aims at the retail sales of nearly CNY100 billion by the end of 2015. Based on information provided by...
View ArticleWatsons Promotes Distribution On B2C E-commerce Platforms In China
Watsons, the health and beauty retail chain under Hutchison Whampoa, announced that the full lines of its own branded products have entered JD.com and Amazon.cn, two leading B2C e-commerce platforms in...
View ArticlePayPal Expands Internet Seller Protection
Online payment provider PayPal is expanding its support to sellers in Asia. On October 11, 2013, PayPal will be launching an expanded seller protection policy in Asia to protect merchants from...
View ArticleChinese Electronics Retailer Invests In Online Video Website
Suning Commerce, a part of the Suning electronics retail group, has joined with Legend Holdings' Hony Capital to jointly invest USD420 million in PPTV, a Chinese Internet video website. After this...
View ArticleMarks & Spencer Adds First Suzhou Store
British retailer Marks & Spencer has opened a new Suzhou store, which is the company's first outlet in the city and 16th in China. Located on Guanqian Street, a popular business area in Suzhou, the...
View ArticleChinese Electronics Retailer Heads To California
China-based Suning Commerce Group is focusing on its electronics retail R&D with a new outpost in the United States. Located in Palo Alto, California, this R&D unit will have an initial...
View ArticleBeijing's Online Shopping Stats Hit New Highs
Netizens in China's capital city have purchased more so far this year from online shops than from traditional department stores. From January to September 2013, Beijing's Internet retail sales reached...
View ArticleMcDonald's Opens First University Campus Restaurant In Mainland China
McDonald's has opened its first campus restaurant in mainland China at Wuhan's Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and it welcomed over 1,000 students and teachers on its first business day....
View ArticleWalmart's Chinese E-Commerce Website Hits New Highs
According to Yu Gang, chairman of Yihaodian.com, this Chinese B2C e-commerce website realized sales of CNY11.54 billion in 2013. At the same time, Yu announced the company's five major strategies for...
View ArticleDangdang.com, Yhd.com Form Open Platform E-commerce Partnership
Chinese B2C e-commerce websites Dangdang.com and Yhd.com announced that the two parties have reached a strategic cooperation to enter each other's open platforms while their respective official...
View ArticleTaiwan's Rt-Mart Launches Internet Shopping For Mainland Consumers
Taiwan-based supermarket retailer Rt-Mart has joined Shoptaiwan.cn, an Internet shopping website promoted by Taiwan's Institute for Information Industry, to provide online shopping services to mainland...
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