According to industry sources, Taobao and Alibaba is a group of employees transferred secretly build a new company, the new company is likely that the rumors of a "Taobao Electric City."
November 16, an Taobao platform technology, the engineers from the last few days to participate in an industry technical seminar, inadvertently revealed that: several of my colleagues around two weeks ago suddenly stopped working, the phone off, also links other contact unlikely. The rest of my colleagues even suspected to be a flow separation, ask HR before denying a stream segregation. But the company did not inform the specific whereabouts of these colleagues, but said to go outside in a new project.
This reporter learned that, while the disappearance of Taobao staff also includes a small appliance categories of market operators II, a mall of small b, is said Taobao logistics coordination center and the advertising department of a number of persons disappeared. Reporter familiar with the internal Taobao told reporters: Taobao Taobao Circuit City should be the first hatched "vertical platform." Currently, sales of home appliances including 3C / Digital Taobao about 30% of total sales, in 2009 expected to reach 60 billion, and because of Gome and Suning, D. Phone, Hongtusanbao store's long-term professional advocacy, the Chinese consumer appliance " Professional Marketplace, "recognized the existence of psychological, on the" professional stores, "the trust Chaoguo integrated store, the same time, domestic appliances Although B2C website development faster, but the scale is not sufficient magnitude, but almost no profit, these two points Taobao consider the first "vertical platform" settled in the heart of home appliance industry factors.
But Taobao will not set foot in B2C market segments in other industries, the person refused to do reviews, but public opinion, within a short time, Taobao will not do other vertical B2C, speaking on Taobao, Taobao is playing a big a "water Gas "platform, according to this thinking, such as some areas have been more perfect, such as clothing, books, classes, Taobao will not consider entering almost.