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Groupon turns down a $6 billion acquisition bid from Google and turns focus to China, India, Korea and the Middle East.

http://www.20thingsilearned.com/

Between 20th Nov 2010 to 2nd Jan 2011 on AirTran, Delta or Virgin America on U.S domestic flights.

According to the China Internet Network Information Center approx. 34 million Chinese shopped online for the first time during the first six months of 2010, bringing the total number of online shoppers to 142million. Deutsche Bank predicts that online sales will grow to 7.2% of China’stotal retail market by 2013.

Alibaba also relaunchs “Taobao” mall (business-to-consumer e-commerce platform) to compete with Baidu & Japan’s Rakuten Online Mall in China “Lekutian”

China’s new world map to fight down Google Maps
http://tianditu.cn/

U.S. mobile advertising spending will hit $743 million by the end of 2010, wild increase of 79% from the previous year.

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