Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE: BABA) and BABA stock have long been compared to Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) and eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY), but according to Money Morning‘s Executive Editor Bill Patalon, those comparisons are way off. In fact, Patalon says Alibaba is actually more like Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT)…

Ein Bericht von yStats.com nimmt das globale Wachstum im B2C-Bereich global unter die Lupe und berichtet von einem verlangsamten Wachstum im Online-Handel weltweit. Während Märkte in Nordamerika und Europa stagnieren, bieten sich mit Mobile Shopping und neuen Produktkategorien auch neue Möglichkeiten. Ebenso wachsen die Umsätze in diesem Bereich in aufstrebenden Schwellenländern. Ein…

Over 50% of New Zealand’s adult population buys online, according to a report issued by the market research agency yStats. New Zealand takes advantage of a developed infrastructure which has propelled the country among the top 20 countries worldwide in B2C ecommerce potential despite the island nation’s small population size.…

Investors looking for Chinese stocks to buy in 2014 got an amazing opportunity with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE: BABA), the largest IPO in U.S. history, when it started trading Sept. 19. While Alibaba (which is actually based in the Cayman Islands, not China) is the biggest player in the…

Although Australia isn’t the largest market or country in the Asia-Pacific region, it still packs a big punch in e-commerce. yStats.com, researcher and reporter on international market trends, recently published a report regarding the potential growth of the business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce market is the Asia-Pacific region. The report details the…