Alibaba, China Post join forces for online shopping
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(InfoWorld) - Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.com has signed a deal with China Post, the country's postal service, intended to smooth the online shopping experience for Chinese consumers, the company said Wednesday. Under terms of the deal, Alibaba will offer consumers the option to ship goods purchased online through a service called e-Youbao, which will be operated by China Post, the e-commerce company said. That service is currently being tested, it said. Besides delivering mail and packages, China Post's Postal Savings Bank is the country's fifth-largest bank. Alibaba users will be able to deposit money into their AliPay online payment account at any of China's 66,000 post offices and China Post's Green Card debit service will become an AliPay partner. Alibaba hopes the deal with China Post will woo consumers wary of shopping online. The company estimated that 24 percent of China's 123 million Internet users -- about 30 million people -- shop unline. Getting more users to shop on the Internet would be a boost for Alibaba, which operates the country's biggest online auction site, Taobao.
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By Mark Albright, St. Petersburg Times, Fla.  Feb. 14--EASY ONLINE SHOPPING? YEAH, RIGHT: A recent gathering of the  nation's top online shopping executives provided a heartening confirmation.
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Retailers, hoping to lure shoppers at a time of soft sales, are tapping technology to make browsing and buying easier.
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Alibaba, partly owned by Yahoo, is said to want greater participation in debate on the potential acquisition.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50016)  has announced the addition of "Computer  Hardware in China" to their offering.
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Shares in China's online site Tom Online rose strongly on Tuesday, after reports the firm could join with eBay in China.
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Boom in internet shopping leaves many Britons waiting to pick up parcels ordered over the web
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America Online has launched an online shopping site it says will provide an easy and fast way to compare products from thousands of online merchants.
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Creaky banking and postal systems are conspiring against Chinese shoppers snapping up books and cosmetics over the internet, holding back a market that has lured the likes of eBay and Amazon.
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Amazon.com says it has reached an agreement to buy Joyo.com, the largest Internet retailer of books, music and videos in China, in a deal worth $75 million. The rapid growth of broadband access in the region makes Asia a particularly ...
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The China market is finally for real. To the country's new consumers, Western products mean one thing: status. They can't get enough of those Air Jordans
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Verizon SuperPages.com said Friday it has teamed up with eBay and Shopping.com for the rollout of new shopping tools on its online Yellow Pages site.
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While rival Dell is turning to the retail channel to boost sales, Gateway said that it has begun selling into China.
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US software giant Microsoft and Chinese Internet search portal Baidu said they were joining forces in China.
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Company beefs up online service for shipping business information between firms over the Net.
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EBay Inc.  on Tuesday  confirmed it is forming a joint venture with Chinese partner  Tom Online  as the U.S. Web auction giant  switches strategies for tapping the promising China market  where it has so far struggled.
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The computer maker will sell its PCs through Digital China, while Dell will try to target upscale consumers in the country.