99bill toolbar to be incorporated into Maxthon

is ecommerce about to heat up

[alleffort]

It seems like 99bill has scored a small victory by having Maxthon browser release a special edition browser which will incorporate 99bill's toolbar into the browser giving user's easy access to their 99bill accounts.

Last year, Mr. Chen renamed his company Maxthon. His browser has been downloaded more than 31 million times, and according to Chinese search engine Baidu.com it is now the second-most-popular browser in China, with over 14 percent market share—all without a cent spent on promotion.

Maxthon users in China are genreally pretty sophisticated but no telling if users will have any interest in switching over to the special edition.

Hopefully this will be one of many things which might be able to jump start ecommerce in China.

[hermes]

Does anyone believe this 14% market share? I have never heard of the thing.