Chinese Internet shopping platform Taobao.com has confirmed that the company has set up a subsidiary in Beijing, and Wu Yongming, former general manager for Alimama.com, will be general manager for this new branch.

Taobao.com has confirmed that its vice president Huang Ruo, who was in charge of the B2C sector of the Internet auction and e-commerce company, will resign at the end of September 2008.

After merging with Alimama.com, Taobao.com, the auction website of Alibaba Group, has formally announced plans to open its application programming interface platform and third-party developers are able to visit data of Taobao.com through various open interfaces from September 8, 2008.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has announced that the group will consolidate its two companies, Taobao.com and Alimama.com.

Alimama, a new service of Chinese e-commerce provider Alibaba, says it will launch a new online advertisement product in the middle of this month. According to ccidnet.com, Alimama's new product will rely on up to 400,000 websites and 180,000 blog sites currently served by the company. Though the company has refused to make any comment [...]

Alimama, an online advertising business unit of Chinese online e-commerce service provider Alibaba, has announced plans to provide a better after-sales service for its online advertisers.