Alibaba and Sina to Launch A Weibo-based E-commerce Platform

Posted by Joachim Bartels | Aug 1, 2013 | Alibaba, China, E-Commerce, SINA Corp Microblog, Weibo | 0 |

Alibaba and Sina are to announce a Weibo-based e-commerce platform at a press event later this week. The platform will integrate the system and data of Taobao and Tmall so that retailers will be able to sell goods to Weibo users like they have been doing on Alibaba’s marketplaces. The service is developed by an unnamed third-party e-commerce software company.

Source: Technode.com

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