2012 is still young, especially in China, where the new year doesn't really start until Spring Festival has wound to a close. And while the last few years have seen massive expansion in the e-commerce market and new companies springing up right and left, could 2012 be the year that sees that trend reverse? The China Business Journal thinks so. The paper ran a lengthy article today with predictions for 2012's e-commerce market. While e-commerce as a market is likely to continue to grow, that may not be enough to rescue ...
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Amazon Launches Junglee.com for Indian Market
Last summer there were reports that Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) would be entering the Indian market in early 2012. This has turned out to indeed be the case, as this past week the company finally launched its online shopping website junglee.com to serve Indian consumers. Amazon says that the new web service will offer over 12 million products from 14,000 brands, and will allow customers to buy from retailers including “Homeshop18, UniverCell, Hidesign, Gitanjali, The Bombay Store, Fabindia, Bata India Limited, Dabur Uveda, Microsoft India Store, Reebok, and Amazon.com.” The Junglee website offers a ...
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GREE Brings on Assortment of Partnership To Support Global Platform, Includes Amazon, Microsoft
Japanese mobile social gaming company GREE (TYO:3632) has announced a number of global partnerships that will bring support tools as its prepares to launch its global gaming platform. There are 20 new international partners coming on board with GREE to assist with development, most notably Amazon and Microsoft. Other companies highlighted in GREE’s announcement are as follows: table.tableizer-table {border: 1px solid #CCC; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10px;} .tableizer-table td {padding: 4px; margin: 3px; border: 1px solid #ccc;} .tableizer-table th {background-color: #104E8B; color: #FFF; font-weight: bold;} LocalizationServer-side infrastructureDebuggingUser support Digital Hearts Co. Ltd. Amazon Data ...
Jan 11 2012
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Social Tipping Platform Grow! Officially Released in Japan
Today, social tipping platform Grow! made its official launch in Japan. We have previously covered Grow here, as a platform that allows users to donate money to publishers. The Grow button has been placed on more than 3,600,000 pages as of January 6th, 2012. There are some key differences we see about the newborn Grow, one being its website design. User can see the archive of all contents that they 'Growed' (Grew?) in a timeline format. By following other users on Grow, you'll see what kinds of content people feel is worth paying for. So ...
Jan 8 2012
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7 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
Here’s a quick round of of some of the more notable China tech stories we covered for the first week of 2012! 1. China Implements Real-Name Registration, Online Ticket Sales for Trains, Buses China’s online real name requirements look to be spreading to many corners of the internet, and early in the week we saw that this included China’s online train system, and before long there will be real name requirements to online payment systems (like Alipay, for example) as well. As for microblogs, we also found out this week that the ...
Jan 3 2012
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Rumor: Amazon’s Kindle Coming to China
Perhaps those government talks we reported on back in October went well, because it looks like Amazon's Kindle product line may finally be coming to China. The rumor, which is being passed around in tech circles on Chinese microblogs, suggests that Amazon's Kindle product line should be hitting China soonish. Amazon China spokesmen told reporters that while the company certainly wants to officially introduce the Kindle to China (there are plenty of sketchy Kindles available on the gray market), there is no official timetable as yet. The rumor has been ...
Jan 3 2012
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Dangdang’s E-Book Platform Leaves Much to Be Desired (So Far)
Last month, we reported on the launch of Dangdang's Ebook platform and apps. According to Dangdang (NYSE:DANG), the thing has over 50,000 titles, the company has made deals with half the nation's publishers, and it's full of bestsellers. Sounds great, right? Apparently it's not quite as great as it sounds, though. First Caijing Weekly points out that on the front page, for example, one of the first books you see is a bestseller, but it's a bestseller from ten years ago. The same author's most recent hit, which is burning up ...
Dec 27 2011
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Japanese Publishers Cause Amazon To Delay Japan E-book Service [REPORT]
Back in October we told you about how Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) was supposedly winding down late-stage negotiations with Japanese publishers to launch its e-book service in Japan. We had expected to see the online retailer enter the local market sometime in 2011, but according to a Kyodo report today the negotiations have proven difficult. Amazon does not yet have a sufficient number of publishers on board yet to launch its service, and its new target date could be next spring. The Japanese e-book market was worth 65 billion yen ($846.9 million) in ...
Nov 11 2011
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Amazon Reportedly Entering India With a Marketplace Approach. Why?
We know already that Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is entering the Indian market pretty soon. But the approach the online retail giant is taking to enter this market is both different and intriguing. According to Medianama, Amazon is joining hands with various homegrown e-commerce portals to launch an open platform-style marketplace in India. This marketplace will reportedly showcase products from its e-commerce partners with Amazon taking care of the payment system. The online retail giant is expected to take 2 to 7 percent commission on sales, with the exception of clothing where it is expected be much higher. One ...
Oct 28 2011
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As Competitor Posts Big Losses, Amazon in Talks to Launch Kindle in China
Today, TheNextWeb is reporting that Amazon has confirmed it's planning to officially launch the Kindle in China, and is currently in talks with government agencies. Probably coincidentally, this news comes on the same day that Hanvon Technology, the makers of China's most popular domestic e-readers, announced Q3 net losses of 104 million RMB (over $16 million). Amazon's Kindle, which has been available in China for years but only on the gray market, already supports Chinese characters and texts. But the gray-market e-readers don't work with Amazon's bookstore, and Hanvon's e-readers -- ...
Oct 27 2011
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Etao Product Search Engine: Some E-Commerce Sites Embrace It, Some Block It
Etao is the product search engine that was created by Alibaba Group, China's biggest e-commerce company. But its origins are cause for reticence among some e-commerce sites. On Tuesday, we reported that 360buy has blocked Etao from crawling and indexing its site. And now the High Street retailer turned e-commerce newcomer Suning (SHE:002024) has followed suit. Suning's online store now also blocks Etao's spiders from cataloging the site (pictured above). In contrast, both Amazon China (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Gome (HKG:0493), which is a High Street electronics rival to Suning, are backing Etao.com. ...
Oct 27 2011
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Amazon Goes It Alone in China, With a New Name and URL
The American e-commerce site Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has made some big changes to its China site today - there's now a new name and a new short URL, in a sign that the company is ready to stand alone on its global brand. Formerly called "Joyo Amazon" - after buying out Joyo.com seven years ago in order to enter China - the name is, starting this morning, simplified to just "Amazon." The new Z.cn URL serves as an easy-to-remember shortcut to the ongoing Amazon.cn homepage. Although it sounds like a small change ...
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