Comment on Alibaba’s Mapping Service AutoNavi Talks Monetization Plans by Alibaba’s mapping service AutoNavi talks monetization plans | VentureBeat | Business | by Tracey Xiang, TechNode

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AutoNavi has been introducing offline stores or third-party services onto its map-based marketplace, hoping to build a Taobao-style platform. Taxi booking apps, house cleaning service Gviva, moving & house cleaning service Taskp, real estate service Homelink and many others have been on the platform. AutoNavi said they were also developing a solution for third-party services to share their user data, hoping to taking transaction-based commissions too. UC Web has been monetizing its mobile browser through search marketing, display ads, gaming, among others. We’ll see how former UC Web management think of the monetization plans.