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Taobao is a Chinese online shopping platform. It is headquartered in Hangzhou and is owned by Alibaba. According to Alexa rank, it was the eighth most-visited website globally in 2021. [3] Taobao.com was registered on April 21, 2003 [4] by Alibaba Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
Baopals is an online shopping platform based in Shanghai, China, that enables users to shop from Taobao, Tmall and Jingdong (JD) in English. The platform serves as a bridge to products and sellers from these Chinese platforms, with information updated in real-time and translated to English.
Taobao villages are rural Chinese villages where the local economy has developed to focus extensively on e-commerce via the Taobao platform. [1]: 112 Alibaba's research division defines Taobao villages as those in which (1) businesses are located in an administrative village in a rural area, (2) the village's annual e-commerce revenues exceed RMB 10 million, and (3) the village has either an ...
Taobao grew to become China's largest C2C online shopping platform and later became the second most visited website in China, according to Alexa Internet. [86] [87] Taobao's growth was attributed to offering free registration and commission-free transactions using a free third-party payment platform. [88]
Tmall.com was first introduced by Taobao in April 2008 as Taobao Mall (simplified Chinese: 淘宝商城; traditional Chinese: 淘寶商城; pinyin: Táobǎo Shāngchéng), a dedicated B2C platform within its consumer e-commerce website. The key difference between Tmall and Taobao is Tmall is a B2C platform but Taobao is C2C. [2]
In reporting Ma's accomplishments, Adi Ignatius, former Time senior editor and editor-in-chief of the Harvard Business Review, noted that "the Chinese Internet entrepreneur is soft-spoken and elf-like—and he speaks really good English" and remarked that "Taobao.com, Mr. Ma's consumer-auction website, conquered eBay in China."
Alipay (simplified Chinese: 支付宝; traditional Chinese: 支付寶; pinyin: zhīfùbǎo) is a third-party mobile and online payment platform, established in Hangzhou, China in February 2004 by Alibaba Group and its founder Jack Ma.
As of 2016 AliExpress ran websites in English, Spanish, Korean, Dutch, French, Italian, German, Polish, Turkish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Russian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Japanese, Thai and other languages - English being the default offered to those countries with languages outside the preceding list.