Alibaba Group's daily life information website Yahoo Koubei (koubei.com) and social networking service Yahoo Guanxi will be "e-commercialized" in 2009 and eventually integrated into Alibaba's e-commerce system, reports qq.com quoting China Yahoo Public Relations Director Wang Tong. China Yahoo designated its life and email services and Yahoo Guanxi as its key businesses in an annual meeting, reports Sina quoting a company insider. The company established a sales team of more than 60 employees to generate profit from e-commerce in life services, and all China Yahoo resources will be put towards life services in 2009, said the insider.
China Yahoo currently has nearly 700 employees, including nearly 200 for Koubei, but only 20 maintain and update China Yahoo content, said the Sina report quoting Wang. Search and blog services will not be emphasized in the future, and China Yahoo will not spend more money on search traffic, said Wang. China Yahoo has stopped providing some download and upload functions for its online photo service and plans to shut down its new community platform on February 28 due to business restructuring.
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Alibaba To Invest CNY300 Million In Yahoo Koubei
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has announced plans to invest CNY300 million in the newly merged Yahoo (YAHOO) Koubei Company in 2009 to develop the lifestyle services business of the company.
A representative from Alibaba told local media that Yahoo Koubei's development strategy is to further focus on the e-commerce areas of lifestyle services to provide Chinese consumers with a platform with the lifestyle service market as its core and Yahoo's social networking site website Yahoo Relations as its support.
In the future, Yahoo Koubei will be mainly engaged in lifestyle services and will play down Yahoo's former businesses like news and search services. This is the key focus of the company which was set during the merger of Yahoo and Koubei.com.
The representative adds that there will be personal adjustments in the company. Although it is unclear whether the company will cut staff or not, some employees, who originally worked in Beijing, will be transferred to Hangzhou, and some worked in Hangzhou will be working in Beijing in the future.
Shen Jianming, vice president for Alibaba Group and vice president for Yahoo China, just resigned her positions and officially departed from Alibaba Group. Shen says she left Alibaba Group for personal reasons. She says her departure is partly because Yahoo China shifted its focus to Koubei.com after it acquired the website and she was asked to work in Hangzhou to manage Koubei.com. However, she does not want to leave her family in Beijing, so she put forward her resignation a month ago.
source:chinatechnews.com
A representative from Alibaba told local media that Yahoo Koubei's development strategy is to further focus on the e-commerce areas of lifestyle services to provide Chinese consumers with a platform with the lifestyle service market as its core and Yahoo's social networking site website Yahoo Relations as its support.
In the future, Yahoo Koubei will be mainly engaged in lifestyle services and will play down Yahoo's former businesses like news and search services. This is the key focus of the company which was set during the merger of Yahoo and Koubei.com.
The representative adds that there will be personal adjustments in the company. Although it is unclear whether the company will cut staff or not, some employees, who originally worked in Beijing, will be transferred to Hangzhou, and some worked in Hangzhou will be working in Beijing in the future.
Shen Jianming, vice president for Alibaba Group and vice president for Yahoo China, just resigned her positions and officially departed from Alibaba Group. Shen says she left Alibaba Group for personal reasons. She says her departure is partly because Yahoo China shifted its focus to Koubei.com after it acquired the website and she was asked to work in Hangzhou to manage Koubei.com. However, she does not want to leave her family in Beijing, so she put forward her resignation a month ago.
source:chinatechnews.com
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