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Taobao is a large-scale online retail and business circle in the Asia-Pacific region, which was founded by Alibaba Group in May 2003. Taobao [1]? It is a popular online shopping and retail platform in China, with nearly 500 million registered users and over 60 million regular visitors every day. At the same time, the number of online goods has exceeded 800 million every day, with an average of 48,000 items sold every minute.
On May 2003 10, Taobao was established, which was invested and founded by Alibaba Group. 5438+ 10 month, the third-party payment tool "AliPay" was launched, and the "secured transaction mode" made consumers trust the transactions on Taobao. The total turnover in 2003 was 34 million yuan.
By the end of 20 14, Taobao had nearly 500 million registered members, with over 65438+200 million daily active users and online products 10 billion. In c2c market, Taobao accounts for 95 1% of the market. Taobao has developed rapidly on the mobile phone side. According to the latest mobile shopping report of 20 14 released by Analysys, the market share of mobile phone Taobao+Tmall reached 85. 1%. Up to now, Taobao has created 4.677 million direct employment opportunities.
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Taobao Baidu encyclopedia