Alibaba Group will stage a promotion in which 10,000 online vendors from three of its online shopping arms will sell products at half-price on Nov 11.
China's online retail market registered total sales of 278.8 billion yuan ($44.5 billion) in the second quarter, up 45 percent year-on-year.
Chinese veterans of the Anti-Japanese War (1937-45) are set to be eased through winter by a donation raised via China's largest online retailer, Taobao.com.
Qingyanliu, small village of less than 1,500 farmers, has become a hotspot for e-commerce startups, and it is now the leading "Taobao Village" in China.
"I thought a job with a State-owned firm is too monotonous and running a store on Taobao would be more interesting," said Wang Jiaxing, a 23-year-old whose store boasts an annual sales of 2.4 million yuan.
Online store owners that dream of making it big on Taobao have found that an attractive and functional site makes all the difference.
Chinese no longer only shop online for something nice and cheap, they are also looking for something unique.
China's top home appliance retailer, Suning Appliance Co Ltd, is to buy a maternal and infant goods e-commerce website for $66 million.
E-commerce company Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd completed an initial repurchase - worth $7.6 billion - of its shares on Tuesday from Yahoo Inc.
Chinese vendors started to dump old versions of the iPhones, in preparation for sales of the new one.
3 people who bought goods overseas to sell in China have been charged with smuggling and received severe sentences, triggering a heated debate.
Dressing up in new and stylish clothes for online shops can earn a cybermodel at least 10,000 yuan ($1,570) a month, much higher than most other careers in China and making this emerging occupation more attractive amid a boom in online shopping.
The pretty Internet models advertising items for sale might also be hired to deliver the goods in person to a buyer's home.
With the Qixi Festival only two days away, online sales of fireflies, an illuminating symbol of love, have surged to the dismay of insect experts.
According to statistics from Taobao, it received more than 8.7 million complaints on the goods bought on the website in 2011.
InterContinental Hotels Group said on Aug 14 it is launching its first flagship e-store on Taobao Travel.
Some shop owners said they added Olympic champions' names in product keywords to make it convenient for buyers.
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