Japanese mobile-communications rivals Softbank Corp. and NTT DoCoMo Inc. have each reported double-digit growth in group net profits for the fiscal second quarter as they step up competition in Japan&…

China’s Alibaba Group created a new domain for its Taobao Mall business-to-consumer portal, separating the brand from the company’s flagship consumer-to-consumer site to give the retail si…

China’s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM) has officially launched Map World, a free online map service, state media reported. Map World will "allow users to fly over mountains an…

Alibaba Group, China’s largest e-commerce firm, has launched a search engine which means it will be coming up against Baidu. Alibaba has taken Taobao, China’s largest and most popular onli…

China-based Alibaba Group’s online shopping business Taobao has launched an experimental search engine called Etao, an Alibaba spokesman said on Tuesday.
Users on the site can search for Taobao …

In a mid-summer issue of Shukan Economist, a Japanese business weekly, Japan-made products on the Chinese Taobao e-commerce rankings were listed like a snapshot, giving revealing insights of Chinese c…

Apple’s iconic chief Steve Jobs has emerged as the "smartest CEO" in the field of technology, according to Fortune magazine’s list of the "50 smartest people in tech".
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China’s Taobao and Yahoo Japan said on Monday they will co-operate and launch two online platforms to cross-sell into each others’ markets, a move that will boost the reach of Asia’s…

Taobao, the China-based online auction and B2C online shopping services provider under the Alibaba Group, on 6 May signed a cooperation agreement with Visa to offer 3D secure payment services for Visa…