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eBay has been the leader in C2C since its early startup day. The company slowly drive its direction to close to Amazon’s B2C and then to Alibaba’s B2B model, and soon we may see a complete new e-Business model that combine the B2B, B2C and C2C, the term I used to call as B2B2C2C.

eBay also the provider for the e-Logistic, where they try to launch the logistic service with UPS, but in totally different model with Amazon one stop distribution model. In the result, it prove to be more effeciency and effective be it in good time or difficult time, especially when recently Amazon just shutted down some of its disti warehouse and slashing workforces. Every year, Amazon spent at least 8 – 10% of their total revenue in maintaining the ‘efficient’ supply chain, which it is a challenging move when market turn bad. eBay strategy to provide end to end distribution will be the new model for SCM in e-Commerce industry that will be widely accepted by public and the darlings from the Street of Wall. Another focus for eBay in future will be the mobile marketplace, and I think iPhone will be one of the major platform that eBay will ride on to unleash its new market potential.

However, during last week trip to Hong Kong, I have the previlege chance to meet up with one of the pioneer in China Internet Market Analyst. He shared with me his personal opinion on the future trend and direction of China Internet marketplace and potential opportunities underminded still in China. One, as we are exploring, is the recently adopted 3G market in China, and another, will be the virtual mapping industry in China.

No matter what, we understand that China is a challenging yet fruitful market that we can’t neglect, and we must enter this market carefully. We will make sure our new office will soon landed in China, in Year 2009.