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Fancy a trip to space? You can buy it on Alibaba’s Taobao site for $96,400

Jun10
by on June 10, 2014 at 9:13 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Product Updates, taobao

If you think Alibaba selling planes on its Taobao marketplace was already a shock, try space travel. Orders open tomorrow on Taobao for a trip to space organized by Space Expedition Corporation, with prices starting from CNY599,999 ($96,400). The flight itself, however, is scheduled for March next year. Alibaba’s Taobao marketplace sells a wide variety of products — pinned at around 8 million SKUs (stock keeping units) — giving new meaning to selling anything and everything online. It’s no wonder Alibaba probably has its eye set on the US, as it can compete with eBay, Amazon and Walmart simply with the scale of…

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Socialbakers buys EdgeRank Checker to add Facebook News Feed insight to its social analytics

Jun10
by on June 10, 2014 at 7:20 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

If your work involves online marketing, then you may be interested to hear that Socialbakers, a company known for social media analytics, has acquired EdgeRank Checker, a startup that provides insight for Facebook News Feeds, in an undisclosed deal. There’s obvious synergy here. Socialbakers CEO Jan Rezab says the coming together will provide brands with “entirely new levels of social media insight” and boost his company’s US market presence. Socialbakers will introduce News Feed-based analytics into its existing products soon, but EdgeRank Checker will continue to be available as a standalone product. This deal is the second significant analytics-based consolidation in recent weeks, following App Annie’s acquisition of fellow mobile…

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