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Taobao

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43 articles decelerating

Taobao has appeared in 43 articles since 2015-02. Coverage peaked in 2025Q4 with 2 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Alibaba, China, WeChat, Chinese.

Articles
43
mentions
Velocity
-50.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
-1.500
velocity change
Sources
14
publications

Coverage Timeline

2021-06-16
Wall Street Journal 4 related

Alibaba's Taobao was clandestinely scraped by a web crawler for 8 months, leading to a leak of 1.1B pieces of user data, including user IDs and phone numbers

Software developer scrapes 1.1 billion pieces of user data, including IDs and phone numbers, over eight months

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

TEXXR tracks 39 Techmeme articles mentioning Taobao, dating back to September 2016. The biggest stories include US consumers are flocking to Chinese shopping apps DHgate and Taobao, which let them buy... and After US put Alibaba's Taobao site back on counterfeiters blacklist, Alibaba says it will.... Frequently covered alongside WeChat, Tencent, eBay, Bloomberg, and Tmall. Coverage has shifted toward consumer themes and away from developer, enterprise.

Key Moments

2024Q3enterprise -50pts; consumer +50pts; competition -50pts
2025Q2regulation -50pts
2025Q3developer -50pts; competition +100pts

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