EachNet CEO Bo Shao is now a full partner of eBay in China
Also on this issue of Newsweek: “In some ways, China is an unlikely hotbed for e-commerce. Only 38 percent of online buyers pay with credit or debit cards, using instead an army of bicycle messengers...
View ArticleYahoo, Ahead in Japan and Taiwan, Gains on Leader EBay in China
1pai.com, an online auction site launched by Yahoo and Sina, is overtaking EBay in China, according to a report in Bloomberg: “EBay, the world’s largest Internet auctioneer, faces a threat to its No. 1...
View ArticleMartyn Williams: EBay sees e-commerce potential in China
From The Industry Standard: EBay Inc. executives this week called China the “largest e-commerce opportunity today” and reaffirmed the online auction company’s plans to invest US$100 million in the...
View ArticleVerne Kopytoff: Net industry eyes China
From the San Francisco Chronicle: China’s burgeoning Internet industry is increasingly being challenged by U.S. competitors including Yahoo, Google and eBay. This emphasis on China, part of a broad...
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Why eBay Must Win In China – Bill Powell and Jeffery Ressner
From The Time Asia Magazine: For all its reputation as the city of tomorrow, a place that will marry capitalism and cool as effortlessly as New York City or London, the city of Shanghai, truth be...
View ArticleChina auction-site ads offered babies for sale – CNet
From CNet News: Shanghai police are investigating advertisements offering babies for sale on a Chinese Web site owned by Internet auction power eBay, state media said on Thursday. The ads, which...
View ArticleMan detained over online baby sale joke – Shanghai Daily
From Shanghai Daily, via China Daily: Police will keep a man from Jiangxi Province in detention for seven days for allegedly posting a note on a popular Website offering to sell babies. The man,...
View ArticleChinese Man Buys eBay Fighter Jet – AP
From AP, via Wired News (link): A Chinese businessman has bought a MiG-21f plane from a U.S. seller on the online auction website eBay for $24,730 and plans to use it to decorate an empty space at his...
View ArticleYahoo! China in a tangle as mommy goes to bed with the enemy – Danwei
From Danwei blog (link): From a global perspective, the possible benefits of such an alliance are clear. In China, on the other hand, it gives birth to a perplexing situation: eBay’s largest...
View ArticleEBay Plans to Pull Back From Chinese Market – Vauhini Vara and Loretta Chao
From The Wall Street Journal: EBay Inc. plans to pull back from the fast-growing Chinese market by shutting down its main Web site in China and replacing it with a new site that would be largely run by...
View ArticleEBay Decision Shows the Importance of Connections in China – Keith Bradsher
From International Herald Tribune: The eBay decision to close its Web site in China and instead take a 49 percent stake in an electronic-commerce joint venture with TOM Online is the latest sign that...
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For eBay, It’s About Political Connections in China – Keith Bradsher
From The New York Times: EBay’s decision to close its Web site in China and take a 49 percent stake in an e-commerce venture with a Chinese company is the latest sign that local knowledge and...
View ArticleUS Internet Giants Fail to Break Into the Lucrative Chinese Market – Bobbie...
From Guardian Unlimited: The lack of Chinese success for companies like Yahoo!, eBay and Amazon is down to ‘lazy corporate culture’ When it emerged earlier this week that eBay was preparing to close...
View ArticleWelcome to China’s Parallel Cyber Universe
The Straits Times reports on the failure of international Internet companies to compete with local Chinese counterparts: In China, most global Internet giants live miserable lives. Auction giant eBay,...
View ArticleGroupon in China Not an Unqualified Success
Danwei’s Jeremy Goldkorn writes for TechCrunch on a Global Mobile Internet Conference session in which Groupon’s invasion of China became a “How Not To” guide, with a succinct conclusion by Baidu’s...
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