Alibaba.com is a global business-to-business e-commerce company that allows buyers and suppliers to conduct business online through three marketplaces: a global trade marketplace for importers and exporters; a Chinese marketplace for domestic trade in China; and a Japanese marketplace facilitating trade to and from Japan. Together, its marketplaces form a community of 40 million registered users from more than 240 countries and regions. The company has offices in China, Europe and the U.S.

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• Alibaba.com’s shareholders vote to take the company private

• Yahoo sells part of its China stake to Alibaba

• The number of U.S.-based women using Alibaba.com increases 72%

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Become.com is a comparison shopping web site that uses a unique search approach through technology and a strong user base to deliver traffic to its web retailing merchants. Become.com is both a comparison shopping and product research engine that allows online shoppers to find information on products before they click out and purchase. The company is growing across vertical markets to increase the advertising opportunities available to its partners, expanding operations in the U.S. and internationally.

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Buzzillions.com, a unit of PowerReviews, provides product reviews and recommendations. Retailers share their customer reviews, written by verified buyers, with Buzzillions, which displays them on its web site. E-retailers must have a consumer product reviews application installed on their web site to have their products placed on the site. Those who sign up for the centerprise review application can have their consumer reviews publish back to the retailer and automatically to Buzzillions.com.

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• Adgregate Markets and PowerReviews Enable Industry-First Ratings and Reviews Integration within Facebook Stores

• PowerReviews experiences a 51% increase in new PowerReviews Enterprise clients

• Buzzillions.com, the Leading Reviews and Recommendation Site for Consumers, Surpasses Ten Million Reviews

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Catalogs.com provides qualified customer acquisition programs for major and specialty print catalogs and e-commerce catalog web sites. Site visitors–more than 1 million per month, the company says–can preview hundreds of catalogs, as well as select and opt in to receive a specific catalog, shop a catalog’s web site or find savings offers from hundreds of merchants. The company’s Business.catalogs.com site allows business owners to browse print and online business catalogs.

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FindGift.com is a gift-giving comparison shopping engine that includes a gift registry, saved gifts and e-mail reminders for comparison gift shoppers. The shopping engine’s merchant services are performance-based so web retailers pay only for the shoppers that FindGift sends to their web site. Before a click-through occurs, shoppers see the retailer’s product picture, price, description and any specials being offered. Resident experts add products to the appropriate category.

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• A sea of shoppers

• Gift services site FindGift.com sees December traffic up twofold to 600,000

• Auction sales will soar as holiday shoppers look for value online

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GetThatWholesale.com is a business-to-business wholesale directory that connects wholesale buyers with wholesale suppliers. Its directory consists of importers, distributors, manufacturers, wholesale suppliers, closeout specialists, auctioneers and drop shippers. Suppliers can use home page banner advertising, available in several different sizes. Each product category has a sponsor with only one sponsor per category. GetThatWholesale also lets buyers know a supplier is a recommended wholesaler.

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• GetThatWholesale.com Announces Launch of New Network of Sites

• GetThatWholesale.com now speaks 10 different languages

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Google Product Search, Google’s shopping engine, helps shoppers find and buy products across the web. Web retailers submit their products free of charge. Google Product Search presents photographs of products and links to the stores that sell them online, and online shoppers can narrow their search by price range, or view results as a list or a grid. Web retailers can upload their products whether one at a time or with a data feed to Google Base, Google Product Search’s content submission tool.

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InMarkit offers an interactive shopping tool that allows consumers to create on-demand wish lists that run on multiple mobile devices and are accessible from any location. It also enables the retailer to deliver targeted, location-based product information and targeted promotions in real-time. InMarkit's e-commerce and mobile commerce interface sits within the participating retailer's web site and is fully customizable.

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• InMarkit On-Demand Wish List Technology Aligns Retailers with Today’s Multi-Channel Customer Behavior

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Like.com is a visual search engine, where the contents of photos are used to search and retrieve similar items. Like.com’s Likeness Technology creates a digital signature that describes the photo's contents and enables a more accurate search for similar looking items and products. Like.com began with soft goods, including clothing, handbags, jewelry, shoes and watches, allowing users to search and purchase items, and recently expanded into home décor. Features include Likeness Search, to search by image rather than text; Like Detail, to find items with a specific feature; Like Color, to find color variants of a particular item; and Like This, to upload a photo of an item and find the same or similar products.

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Microsoft Bing cashback (formerly Microsoft Live Search cashback) is a comparison-shopping engine that helps consumers find deals on the web and receive cash back on their purchases. web retailers can sell their products on Bing on a cost-per-acquisition basis, establishing the amount of cash back they want to reward customers. Because Bing cashback uses a CPA model and pay-per-click bidding process, retailers don’t have to invest in fees traditionally associated with PPC campaigns. To advertise with Bing cashback, web retailers must be U.S.-headquartered, have an e-commerce site, be able to fulfill product shipment and create and maintain a product data feed, and implement a standard tracking pixel on their web site’s order confirmation page.

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In July 2009, PriceGrabber.com and Retrevo, a company that provides reviews for online electronics shoppers, announced a partnership. PriceGrabber.com provided access to user reviews analyzed by Retrevo, while Retrevo agreed to feature comparison shopping from PriceGrabber.com. Retrevo’s summary analysis of user reviews are now on PriceGrabber.com, while PriceGrabber.com provides up-to-the-minute pricing data for Retrevo, “Retrevo’s analysis gives shoppers confidence that they are buying a good product based on the experience of users, and PriceGrabber.com helps Retrevo’s users know they are getting their products at a good price from reputable merchants,” says Ron LaPierre, PriceGrabber.com president.

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PriceRunner is a United Kingdom-based price comparison site and a unit of ValueClick Europe. Web retailers who list their products on PriceRunner can choose from more than 300 product categories. Publishers can customize a white label solution where PriceRunner implements its comparison technology on the retailer’s site platform with the retailer’s own branding. Alternatively, a customizable XML platform lets the retailer retain full control of display, functionality and URL construction.

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• ValueClick Divisions Continue to Invest in Network Quality

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Pronto is a shopping engine that enables online shoppers to create a profile that lets them rate and review their favorite products. Web retailers with a Pronto Merchant Solutions account can list their products on Pronto.com, which is 100% performance-based with no set-up fees, and can use Pronto Search. The Merchant Solutions online toolset allows retailers to submit and update their listings, track activity, control their spending, place bids and measure their campaign’s success.

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Network includes more than 2,500 merchants such as Beauty.com Best Buy Co., Bloomingdale’s, Bluefly, Boscov’s Department Store, Buy.com, Chefs Catalog, Circuit City Stores, Cooking.com, Drugstore.com, eToys, Frontgate, Gap, Horchow, J.C. Penney, J. Crew Group, Macy’s, Nordstrom, Ross-Simons, Saks Direct, Shoebuy.com, Spiegel Brands, Target, Zappos.com

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Shopping.com, an eBay company, is a shopping comparison engine. The site’s content and navigational features help shoppers make decisions by presenting them with a comprehensive array of products from their favorite brands, reinforced by extensive product reviews and ratings from across the web. Web retailers pay only when the site delivers a lead to their store. Shopping.com offers tools and information for web retailers to measure and manage their campaigns.

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ShopWiki is a shopping search engine designed to help online shoppers find specific products on the web by combining advanced web-crawling technology with consumer-written wikis. The site’s web crawler scans more than 150,000 stores for products. The technology enables the site to intelligently extract data from merchant web sites and post that information. In 2008, ShopWiki underwent a site redesign. “We are redesigning the site to bring a lot of the wiki content into the store and product pages and adding features to make it easier for consumers to contribute,” says CEO Rory Cumming. “And now that we have the scale with visitors, we’ll be forming a social shopping community, similar to Kaboodle.”

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• Almost 90% of Top 500 merchants use shopping portals

• Taking a page from YouTube, BabyUniverse and ShopWiki offer video uploading

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Shopzilla is a shopping comparison engine with a network of more than 87,000 stores, including Amazon.com Inc., Systemax Inc., Dell Inc., and Newegg Inc. Shopzilla also operates the BizRate consumer feedback network. The company’s shopping search engine is a cost-per-click marketing program designed for online retailers. There are no setup fees, and web retailers pay only for clicks directed to their online store. Shopzilla’s Business Services web site offers web retailers bidding tools to specify the amount they pay per click, listings management tools to manage and edit their search engine product listings and reporting tools to track the performance of their participation in Shopzilla’s listings program.

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Smarter.com, a unit of ValueClick, is an online comparison shopping service. The company gathers product and merchant data from across the web, then organizes and structures it into a comprehensive catalog, which it publishes on Smarter.com. Account management tools include basic and advanced return-on-investment tracking tools, a coupon submission tool, and a product locator tool to verify categorization of specific listings and their associated cost-per-click rates.

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Sortprice.com is an online comparison search engine. The company uses a monthly flat-fee pricing model for merchants and retailers (as opposed to cost-per-click). Web retailers can choose from Sortprice.com’s basic product listing, where a small percentage of products are selected and displayed in the search results, or the enhanced product listing, where all a merchant’s products are listed. Sortprice.com accepts nearly any product data feed format from web retailers.

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• Sortprice.com and PETCO Setting Standard for New Era of Social Shopping with Merchant Store Application for Facebook Platform

• Sortprice Enhances Merchant Store Application on Facebook Platform

• Traffic spikes at Sortprice.com during the holiday shopping season

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TheFind is a vertical shopping engine that crawls the entire web, using patented search technology. TheFind displays the complete selection of soft and hard goods for sale online; the lowest price for a product; sales, coupons and discounts; local stores offering the merchandise a shopper is seeking; green stores, organic products and fair trade brands; and hard-to-find items. Registered merchants can add and edit store information and upload logos, coupons, and store locations.

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WinBuyer Ltd. provides consumer and business comparison shopping applications to consumers via a comparison shopping engine search and to online retailers via a proprietary e-commerce application that displays accurate competitive pricing information inside retailers’ sites. The Onsite Comparative Pricing application helps web retailers accelerate consumer purchasing behavior by allowing them to compare prices without leaving the retailer’s site, while increasing average cart size.

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• Ritz Interactive & Consumers Find Win-Win Solution in Downturn Economy

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Yahoo offers advertising applications to web retailers and others that help them drive better results and improve search engine optimization. Yahoo Labs leverages user data and insights to create innovative advertising products. Yahoo products allow retailers to advertise on Yahoo Search and Bing with just one account by opening a Microsoft Advertising adCenter account, create banner ads, obtain a web site and domain, set products online, and get business e-mail.

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• Yahoo plans to focus more on online commerce

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