The site will offer not only financial deals, but hopes to attract an audience for news, e-commerce and online shopping as well.
To justify its stock price, Akamai must position itself to triple revenue per customer figures for media and e-commerce (online shopping) verticals by the end of our forecast period.
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The XT780 brings Social TV and media, Google Play, web search, e-mail, shopping, news and online videos straight to users' fingertips.
The categories range from "Pain Free", which tries to find who is making shopping online as straightforward as possible, to Best Family e-Business, which targets smaller online retailers such as hotel chain Elegant English Hotels and pharmacist Allcures.com.
And with growing popularity of online shopping in the country, China has become a key market for e-commerce with internet firms.
While many people take great pride in shopping locally (vs. buying online from Amazon or some other e-tailer), they miss the point by hitting up Wal-Mart or another big box retailer.
Alibaba, which operates online shopping sites Taobao and Tmall, is by far the biggest competitor in China's growing e-commerce market.
Its Japanese-language counterpart, which currently accepts orders but not online payments, will be relaunched next month as a full-service e-commerce center complete with virtual shopping trolleys and real-time credit-card processing.
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