Alibaba, China's biggest e-commerce group, has seen its profits nearly tripled, according to a regulatory filing by shareholder Yahoo.
This week, the group said it will bundle its disparate e-commerce activities into a single entity, to be called Bertelsmann E-Commerce Group.
Also on Wednesday, the e-commerce development group, bizzbuild.com, announced the sale of its subsidiary Value Direct to Home Electrical Direct.
"We face a very real risk of seeing the democratically accountable policing of computer-assisted crime replaced by a combination of vigilante action and the covert privatisation of legitimate investigation, " said Philip Virgo, Secretary General of EURIM, the all-party e-commerce lobby group which commissioned the study.
Even fashion e-commerce site Gilt Group created a spinoff travel site called Jetsetter.
Jack Ma, chairman of China's largest e-commerce empire, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
"The International Finance Center is Hong Kong's premier IT address, " says Lane Leskela, research director for e-commerce intelligence services at Gartner Group (Asia Pacific).
Pearl estimates the most active group of e-commerce customers numbers only 2-3 million.
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"Returns for cash on delivery are about seven to 10 times greater than online payments, " said Savitar Jagtiani, business head of e-commerce for Lebanon's Landmark Group.
And within this 160-person unit is a group of 20 or so who do e-commerce deals.
The company has moved into the GroupOn clone territory, too, with its own group-buying e-commerce web site Nuomi, which rolled out in June 2010.
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BT, first in its mobile-telecoms division, then as a pioneer of the group's business-to-business e-commerce efforts.
Consider too the e-commerce services that online shoppers (a growing group) value.
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Alibaba Group is the dominant e-commerce player in China today and the entire e-commerce sector there is going to go up 5x in the next 4 years.
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The country trails the United States and Japan in total e-commerce spending but is forecast by the Boston Consulting Group to take the No. 1 position by 2015.
And later when we set up Alibaba, after 5 years of study we realized this: that small and medium sized companies are the group of companies who really need e-commerce.
To his credit, Pierre authorized an eBay Government Affairs group (now a worldwide network of e-commerce advocates known as eBay Main Street).
In May it set up a unit to run its nascent e-commerce operations, preparing to take on established players like Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and 360buy.com.
People like Li YanHong and Robin Li, founders of Baidu.com, or famed entrepreneur Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba group, which owns the most popular e-commerce sites, or Pan Shiyi and wife Zhang Xin, the Donald Trumps of China.
Kristina Salen, who ran a group of analysts at Fidelity Investments, became chief financial officer of e-commerce site Etsy Inc. earlier this year.
One of the group's 25 business units, Alibaba.com, an e-commerce platform for small businesses, went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2007, before Mr. Ma took it private again last year. (The rest of the group's units, including Taobao, Tmall and Alipay, have never gone public.) The financial crisis hurt Alibaba.com, he says, and it needed major changes.
According to Penang Netpreneur Chan Hong Saik, who runs B2B Internet solutions group Ebx.com, numbers like that mean that the term "e-commerce" will soon be redundant.
Alibaba Group has hired a Washington lobbying firm in a sign that the Chinese e-commerce company would be willing to make a bid for all of Yahoo Inc in the event that talks to unwind their Asian partnership fail.
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The scenario that played out saw a hacktivist group, called "Incognito", threaten and apparently take down high-profile British e-commerce sites as part of a protest against a proposed set of government policies on online privacy.
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