This annual report offers a wealth of information on the trends and developments taking place in the worldwide m-commerce and c-commerce sectors. The report provides analyses of the issues surrounding the growth of e-commerce, including e-banking, e-payments and online advertising. Information on mobile commerce developments are also provided, including m-payments and m-banking. Comprehensive information on the exciting developments taking place on a regional level is included along with statistics and forecasts for both the e-commerce and m-commerce sectors.

Key highlights:

- By 2012 it is expected that more than 1 trillion will be spent online by B2C consumers. B2B spending will exceed this considerably.

- E-payment solutions are an important part of e-commerce transactions; however security issues continue to tarnish the industry.

- Asia Pacific leads the world in terms of using mobile phones for m-payments, accounting for around 85 percent of customers worldwide.

- BuddeComm estimates revenue from mobile content and services (excluding SMS), accounts for around 7-10 percent of total mobile revenues worldwide. SMS remains popular and accounts for a further 10 percent of total mobile data revenues.

- Online advertising growth is set to continue for the next few years, but will slow slightly in the wake of the US financial crisis. It is expected that online advertising will eventually account for around 20 percent of all advertising spend in some markets.

- Search services are central to almost everything that users do online, and this places search companies such as Google and Yahoo at an advantage. In the Chinese market, Baidu and Alibaba also have a good foothold.

- Google is still the most popular website property worldwide; however individual countries and regions show differences with many local sites remaining popular. Other web properties proving popular across multiple markets include Yahoo, Microsoft and Wikipedia sites, Apple Inc, eBay and Amazon.

This annual report provides an insight and analyses into the trends and developments taking place in the m-commerce and e-commerce sectors. The report provides analyses of the trends and issues impacting upon the growth of e-commerce, including e-banking, e-payments and online advertising sectors. Analyses of the developments taking place in mobile commerce are also provided, along with information on m-payment and m-banking. Statistics and forecasts for both the e-commerce and m-commerce markets are provided. The report also includes valuable insights and statistics on the developments taking place on a regional level including North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.

Report information: www.researchandmarkets.com/research/da7c44/2008_global_broadb

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Chinese B2B bellwether Alibaba.com alerted lately Baidu.com of its termination of advertising on Baidu.com.

Spokesperson from the public relationship department of Alibaba.com says that they chose to end advertising on Baidu.com for the poor advertising effectiveness.

Latest statistics show that website traffic of Baidu.com has been on the decline year by year. What is more, there are huge amount of ineffective anonymous traffic. And the page views brought by Baidu.com can hardly meet the specific need of small and midsize customers of Alibaba.com.

As early as the yearend of 2007, Taobao.com, a brother- sister company of Aliaba.com, stopped advertising on Baidu.com with a view to failed service offered by Baidu.com.

Taobao.com said today that instead of decline its website traffic soared 180% by the end of this September since it started to block off inappropriate Internet search services in November 2007.

And Taobao.com has blocked off all Internet search services of Baidu.com, the biggest Chinese Internet search service provider in the world.

The over-commercialized search ranking result of Baidu.com make profits at the price of equity and the attractiveness of the Internet search engine. A lot of rubbish websites and individual entertainment websites have been ranked top by taking the advantage of the SEO rules of Baidu.com.

Industry analysts say that such move of Internet companies will trigger far-reaching and wide-ranging discussions about the long-term sustained development of the Internet in China.

By shielding the Internet search engines, Taobao hopes to keep illegal sellers from cheating online shoppers via search ranking.

Baidu announced its expansion into the C2C sector in October 2007. Since March 2008, the company has been engaged in large scale marketing campaigns around the country in a bid to attract sellers to settle down in its C2C platform.

Following the heels of C2C portal Taobao.com and social networking websites Xiaonei.com and Hainei.com, Zhongsou.com, a leading individual portal service provider, blocked off the Internet search service of Baidu.com on September 12, the biggest Chinese Internet search service provider.

From www.hexun.com, Page 1, Monday, November 17, 2008
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The Everbright Bank of China, the China Construction Bank, the China Merchants Bank, the CITIC Bank, the Pudong Development Bank, and so on also made such statement.

The reports also said that banks have tightened restrictions on online payment of Alipay by credit cards. China Merchants Bank and CITIC Bank have regulated that the maximum payment each time can not exceed CNY 499.99 and CNY 500. The China Everbright Bank sets it as CNY 300.

From www.hexun.com, Page 1, Monday, November 17, 2008
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Besides China Minsheng Banking, other banks such as Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Industrial Bank, and Shenzhen Development Bank have all called off the service.

More other banks have tightened restrictions on online payment of Alipay by credit cards. China Merchants Bank and CITIC Bank have regulated that the maximum payment each time can not exceed CNY 499.99 and CNY 500. The China Everbright Bank sets it as CNY 300.

Online payment service of Alipay, the e-payment company under the aegis of Alibaba Group, has been widely accepted by ecommerce companies in China.

From www.cnstock.com, Page 1, Friday, November 14, 2008
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