<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Gigaom]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://gigaom.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Barb Darrow]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[http://search.gigaom.com/author/barbdarrow/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Strange bedfellows: Amazon sets up shop on Alibaba site]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Amazon.com has opened an online presence on rival Alibaba&#8217;s Tmall superstore, according to <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/06/us-amazon-com-alibaba-group-store-idUSKBN0M205Q20150306">Reuters</a> and <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31762326">other outlets</a> citing an Alibaba spokesman.</p>
<p><a href="https://search.gigaom.com/company/amazon/">Amazon</a> and <a href="https://search.gigaom.com/company/alibaba/">Alibaba</a> are both prodigious online retailers and rivals and both are eying the other&#8217;s turf. Earlier this week Aliyun, Alibaba&#8217;s online services arm, <a href="https://gigaom.com/2015/03/03/if-you-thought-cloud-competition-couldnt-get-hotter-think-again/">opened a cloud data center in Silicon Valley</a>, its first presence in the U.S. Aliyun is seen as a competitor to cloud giant Amazon Web Services.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve reached out to both Alibaba and Amazon for further comment and will update this story as needed.</p>
<p>Other western companies, including <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/102085193">Costco,</a> <a href="http://www.chinainternetwatch.com/7530/burberry-tmall-flagship-store/">Burberry</a> and Zara parent company Inditex, have also set up shop on Tmall, which runs the ecommerce sites and provides the associated payment-processing operations.</p>
<p>Amazon.com offers its own ecommerce site in China, but Alibaba is the 800-pound gorilla there and it makes sense for Amazon to set up shop on Alibaba&#8217;s Tmall if it wants to sell more stuff to Chinese citizens.  Long live co-opetition I guess.</p>
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