Article: Alibaba Group Makes RMB5 Billion Investment in Taobao.

Taobao Continues to Offer Free Service to Users

BEIJING, Oct. 8 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Taobao, China's largest consumer e- commerce company, today announced that its parent company, Alibaba Group, will invest RMB5 billion (US$732 million*) over the next five years to further strengthen the Taobao marketplace ( http://www.taobao.com/ ) as the shopping destination of choice for Chinese consumers. The investment will be used for building a world-leading platform for merchants and providing the best online shopping experience for consumers. In addition, Taobao will continue to offer its services for free to buyers and individual sellers.

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