consumer-to-consumer

Alibaba created a new domain for its Taobao Mall business-to-consumer portal, separate from the company's consumer-to-consumer site, to give the retail site more prominence.

What's News 2010

The Hangzhou-based group's online retail company, Taobao. com, said it separated the Taobao Mall business-to-consumer portal from its flagship consumer-to-consumer portal and gave it its own Web address, Tmall. com.

Business Watch 2010

Those sellers now include Fast Retailing Co. apparel chain Uniqlo and computer maker Dell Inc. In June, Taobao split that business, Taobao Mall, which competes with Jingdong, from its original consumer-to-consumer site, Taobao Marketplace.

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He added he expects the value of transactions on Taobao Mall to expand 400% this year from last year, outpacing the growth of Taobao's consumer-to-consumer business.

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Speaking at Alibaba Group's annual convention in Hangzhou, China, Mr. Ma said that the websites, consumer-to-consumer trade platform Taobao Marketplace, and business-to-consumer platform Taobao Mall, which were recently split into separate business units, will help spur consumer demand in the world's most populous nation.

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Revenue in Western Union's consumer-to-consumer business grew 7.6% in the second quarter from a year earlier to $1.15 billion.

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Alibaba Group made a name for itself for pushing eBay Inc. out of the Chinese consumer-to-consumer market in 2006, largely by undercutting on commission fees.

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And Baidu's past attempt to enter the e-commerce market through a consumer-to-consumer platform called Youa hasn't gained traction.

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Mr. Ma has redefined e-commerce in China by taking online bartering beyond eBay Inc.'s consumer-to-consumer swapping style and adding to it a marketplace for China's small businesses to connect with a global web of customers and suppliers.

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"Generally what we see is competition will become more fierce in [the business-to-consumer market] in the near future, but it's still more promising than [the consumer-to-consumer market] in the long term," says Duncan Clark , chairman of Beijing-based research firm BDA China Ltd. Online sales by businesses are taking market share from consumer-trading websites in China, especially in the country's biggest cities, Mr. Clark says.

The New Online Battleground Owen Fletcher 2011