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Taobao Marketplace (simplified Chinese: 淘宝网; traditional Chinese: 淘寶網; pinyin: Táobǎo Wǎng) is a Chinese website for online shopping similar to eBay and Amazon operated in the People’s Republic of China by Alibaba Group.Founded by Alibaba Group on May 10 2003 Taobao Marketplace facilitates consumer-to-consumer (C2C) retail by providing a platform for small businesses and individual entrepreneurs to open online retail stores that mainly cater to consumers in China Hong Kong Macau and Taiwan.With around 760 million product listings as of March 2013 Taobao Marketplace is one of the world’s top 10 most visited websites according to Alexa.
