BEIJING: Alibaba Group has come up with a breathtaking initiative that starts e-commerce company’s online-shopping websites to independent mobile-app developers. The initiative offers retailers and developers outside the company extensive technical support so they can connect with Alibaba’s e-commerce ecosystem, which includes C2C and B2C shopping websites Taobao Marketplace and Tmall as well as smartphone shopping apps Mobile Taobao and Alipay Wallet. Alibaba is inviting developers to create innovative mobile-shopping apps, social-sharing apps, location-based services, online-to-offline services and other smartphone-enabled solutions, integrating them with Alibaba’s sites.
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