Asian e-Commerce Rivalry & Online Marketplace Competition
eBay USA vs Taobao China - American Paypal Chinese Beibao - Alibaba AliExpress
US online auction site eBay has in May 2010 announced a new bid to re-establish itself in China, where the e-commerce market is dominated by homegrown rival Taibao
The US auction site largely withdrew from China years ago after being overtaken by Taobao, part of China's largest e-commerce firm, the Alibaba Group, which also operates business-to-business marketplace Alibaba.com
The American firm shut down its Chinese consumer website in late 2006 and folded its China operations into Eachnet, a joint venture run by Hong Kong's Tom Online Group, after Taobao won the lion's share of the Chinese market
Unlike eBay, Taobao charges no commission to list items for sale and the site's revenue comes from advertising
Baidu China - Rakuten Japan
Baidu, China's top search engine in terms of market share, said recently it would set up a joint venture with Japanese retail website Rakuten to launch a shopping mall targeting domestic web users in the second half of 2010
eBay Clothing Auction, PayPal and Fashion Vault
eBay.com is an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide
PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. PayPal serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders
Fashion Vault hot designer and brand discount sales, exclusively for eBay members
Taobao Shopping - Beibao - AliExpress - Alibaba B2B e-Commerce
Taobao is a non-stop online platform for shopping, socializing and information sharing for consumers in China. Sellers are able to post new and used goods for sale on the Taobao marketplace either through a fixed price or negotiated sale or by auction
Wholesale website Alibaba announced a new platform, AliExpress, allowing payments from users of US online payment service PayPal
eBay.cn runs Beibao, a Chinese version of payment site Paypal