Amazon lends name to Chinese site

BEIJING Amazon announced today that Chinese investment, Joyo.com, provider of Chinese language books, has changed its name to "Joyo Amazon." The announcement came at a press conference in Beijing hosted by Joyo.com's president, Hanhua Wang, and Amazon.com founder and ceo, Jeff Bezos.

"We at Amazon are contributing our extensive technology and expertise to make Joyo the very best in the world at serving customers," said Jeff Bezos, "We are very proud to be associated with them."

Originally launched as an online bookstore in 2000, the newly branded Joyo Amazon site offers customers hundreds of thousands of items in 20 categories including electronics, watches, mother/baby product, kitchen and health/personal care. In addition, Joyo.com now provides COD delivery to more than 330 cities in China and same-day delivery to customers in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou.