I wrote back in May about Alibaba Group and its many well positioned assets that make this still private company one to watch as it is highly unlikely that anyone will beat them.
Pacific Epoch has shared the latest China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) online shopping statistics for 1H-08 and Alibaba Group’s Taobao.com continues to [...]

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As stated in my June 13th posting on TradeMediaBlog, Yahoo! is now partnering with Google and Eric Schmidt and his boys are laughing all the way to global domination.
A few related articles that you may find of interest:
New York Times - Oh Jerry, It’s No Longer Your Baby
TechCrunch - NYTimes Article Reverberates Through Yahoo; Who’s [...]

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Looks like the boys at Microsoft have finally walked away from Yahoo! after Jerry Yang tried to get them to revive their last takeover bid of US$47.5 billion.
Yahoo said Microsoft “unequivocally” rejected the notion of buying the entire company in a meeting held Sunday.
Now what?
Well, the company’s annual meeting is August 1st where they will [...]

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I am often asked what is trade media? What industry do you serve?
Simply, trade media is the underlying media supporting global trade. From bricks-and-mortar publishing and online sourcing communities to large export-oriented trade events as well as the many third-party services supporting an international trade transaction - all of these businesses are involved in trade [...]

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For those of you involved in import-export, you are definitely feeling the pain as global economies continue to punish us with a low value U.S. dollar and swelling inflation.
For many trade media companies, this is also proving to be an incredibly tough sales period. While speaking with one of TradeMediaBlog’s partners, they admitted that they [...]

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