Alibaba.com, the listed unit of the Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba, has announced that it has reached a wholly purchase agreement with the American e-commerce company Vendio.
A representative from China Hualu Group has revealed that the video website Hualu5.com developed by its subsidiary Hualu Culture Industry Company is expected to be launched in a month.
Chinese B2C e-commerce website 360buy.com plans to set up a third-party open platform to improve its services.
Sponsored by Taiwan Tourism Administration, the China Taian Mount Tai Travel Information Website taian.travel has launched its Japanese and Korean versions targeting major inbound tourist source markets of Taiwan: Japan and South Korea.
Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba has established a small loan company in Zhejiang to provide loans below CNY500,000 to its sourcing and procurement clients in Zhejiang.
The B2B2C joint venture established by the Chinese search engine company Baidu and the Japanese e-commerce operator Rakuten has announced that it has formally adopted the Chinese name “Le Ku Tian” as the brand name of its online service platform Rakuten.com.cn, which is currently opened to e-commerce vendors for registration.
China’s largest retail website Taobao.com announced that its online travel channel Tao Lvyou has gone officially online, marking Taobao.com’s entry into the Internet tourism and business travel market.
Chinese budget hotel chain GreenTree Inns Hotel Management Group announced it has established a partnership with Expedia, the world’s largest online travel company.
The State Administration for Industry & Commerce of China has formally published the “Interim Measures for Management of Network Commodity Trade and Related Services”, effective from July 1, 2010.
According to reports in Taiwanese local media, Udn.com, the official website of the island’s well-known news media United Daily News, has cooperated with Gohappy.com.tw, the online shopping website owned by Far Eastern Group in Taiwan, in the launch of a shopping channel.
China’s State Food and Drug Administration has published a bulletin in which it exposes 30 websites that have been allegedly selling fake medicines.
Taiyuan, the capital city of Shanxi province, has become the first Chinese city to promote tourism electronic contracts.
Zhejiang province’s first comprehensive Internet platform focusing on rural tourism, zhejiang.com.cn, has been formally launched.
China’s leading travel search engine Kuxun.cn announced it has reached a strategic cooperation with Kaixin001.com, the famous social networking service provider in China, saying the two will work together to expand online travel business opportunities.
Chinese B2B e-commerce company Alibaba.com has published its financial report for the first quarter of 2010, stating that its registered members, operating revenue, and profit saw overall increases.
Chinese online travel and e-commerce services firm Ctrip.com International Ltd. announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010, and stated it had total revenues of CNY627 million, representing a 46% increase from the same period in 2009 and a 4% increase from the previous quarter.
Taobao.com, the Chinese Internet shopping website owned by Alibaba Group, and Yahoo Japan, which is held by Japan’s Softbank Group, have reached a strategic cooperation deal.
Ctrip.con announced its CNY200 million Ctrip Information Technology Building in Nantong has completed construction and will be operated as the company’s second call center with 12,000 seats, which is said to be the largest call center in the world’s tourism industry.
Taobao.com, the Internet auction and shopping website owned by the Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba, has launched a new streamlined homepage.
Aliexpress.com, the newly launched Internet wholesale e-commerce subsidiary of the Chinese B2B e-commerce company Alibaba.com, and the international logistics giant UPS have recently formed a strategic alliance.
Chinese third-party Internet payment platform Alipay.com has inked a cooperation deal with the international credit card organization MasterCard, to officially launch payment services with MasterCard in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.
Chinese online tourism website Ctrip.com has reportedly acquired Sozhen.com, a website focusing on ancient Chinese town travel.
Three months after Baidu’s announcement of its plan to set up a joint venture with the Japanese e-commerce operator Rakuten, the JV was formally founded in Beijing’s Tongzhou district last week.
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and Ping An Insurance (Group) have signed an e-commerce strategic cooperation agreement to implement business cooperation in related areas.
China Southern Airlines Company Limited has introduced an overseas hotel reservation service on its portal csair.com to provide one-stop ticketing and hotel booking services for Chinese outbound travelers.
Chinese online payment provider Alipay is receiving a CNY5 billion cash infusion to help the company expand its e-commerce business.
To handle the post-crisis credit problems of Chinese small- and medium-sized enterprises, Alibaba.com, the listed unit of the Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba, has launched an entry-level service tool for corporate credit construction and e-commerce.
After a half-year trial operation, Ctrip.com has launched its wireless mobile website m.ctrip.com. Consumers now can log on to the site via their mobile phones to book hotel rooms, buy airline tickets, and manage personal information.
