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PublicHKSE:1688.HK
Date11/07
Raised
Post IPO Valuation
Acquired byYahoo!
Price$1B
Date8/05
TermsCash and Stock

General Information

Websitealibaba.com
Twitter@AlibabaTalk
CategoryeCommerce
Employees
Founded6/99

Offices

united states of america
6/F Chuangye Mansion, East Software Park
No.99 Huaxing Road
Hangzhou, 310099, CHN

People

Chief Financial Officer & Director,
Chief Technology Officer,
President,
President
President
President
President
President
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Former People

senior manager

Acquisitions

Vendio, 6/10

Investments

Sina Weibo 4/13
UC Mobile 1/12

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Alibaba

Alibaba.com is a B2B e-commerce company. Alibaba’s primary business is to serve as a directory of Chinese manufacturers connecting them to other companies around the world looking for suppliers. According to iResearch, it was the largest online B2B company in China in 2006 based on the number of registered users and market share in China by revenue. Yahoo is currently a 40% share holder in the parent Alibaba Group.

They operate two marketplaces; the first is an international marketplace based in English tailored to global importers and exporters in China; the second is a Chinese marketplace that focuses on suppliers and buyers trading domestically in China.

Competitors include Jeff Bezos-backed manufacturing marketplace MFG.com, Global Sources.com, TradeKey.com, Bikudo.com, MercaTrade.com and RSS.

In the end of 2008, Alibaba launched B2B sites in 6 non-English language versions, which help native traders source products online easily. The sites are:

  • Spanish: http://spanish.alibaba.com/
  • German: http://german.alibaba.com/
  • Italian: http://italian.alibaba.com/
  • French: http://french.alibaba.com/
  • Portuguese: http://portuguese.alibaba.com/
  • Russian: http://russian.alibaba.com/

Recent Milestones

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    Alibaba — Alibaba spends $300M to buy one third of Chinese mapping company (5/10/13)
    Posted 5/11/13 at 5:02am via venturebeat.com
  • Dollar
    Alibaba invested in Sina Weibo. (4/29/13)
    Posted 5/7/13 at 2:40am via techcrunch.com
  • Dollar
    Alibaba invested in UC Mobile. (1/1/12)
    Posted 7/6/09 at 4:44pm via ucweb.com
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    Alibaba — Silver Lake and DST Global Invest in China’s Alibaba Group (10/4/11)
    Posted 2/28/12 at 8:55am via invest-iq.net
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    Alibaba — Silver Lake and DST Global Invest in China’s Alibaba Group (10/4/11)
    Posted 2/28/12 at 8:55am via invest-iq.net
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    Alibaba — Alibaba.com CEO And COO Out Because Of Vendor Fraud (2/21/11)
    Posted 2/21/11 at 6:38pm via techcrunch.com
  • Handshake
    Alibaba acquired Vendio. (6/24/10)
    Posted 6/24/10 at 8:25pm via freshnews.com
  • Stock
    Went public with stock symbol HKSE:1688.HK. (11/6/07)
    Posted 7/31/11 at 5:56pm
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    Alibaba — Alibaba gains exclusive rights to the Yahoo brand in China. (8/11/05)
    Posted 5/15/09 at 12:56pm via com.cn
  • Handshake
    Alibaba was acquired by Yahoo! for $1B. (8/11/05)
    Posted 8/22/07 at 12:33am via yahoo.com
  • Check
    Alibaba added Jack Ma as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer,.
    Posted 10/30/07 at 11:31pm

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Websitealibaba.com
StageLive
Tags ecommerce
Alibaba screenshot
Above: Alibaba.com Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

Aliyun

Websitealiyun.com

Aliyun is a mobile operating system owned by Alibaba a Chinese B2B ecommerce company.

Alibaba has announced that they will be spinning out Aliyun OS and creating a separate company.

Google claims that Aliyun OS is a non-compatible version of Android. Alibaba claims that Aliyun is an “open source Linux” and not part of Android. Aliyun hopes to be the mobile operating system for the Chinese market.

Alibaba screenshot
Above: Aliyun Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 9/21/12

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Sources

  1. YAHOO! AND ALIBABA.COM FORM STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP IN CHINA (docs.yahoo.com) [edit]
  2. Alibaba.com Acquires Vendio, Continues to Advance Global E-Commerce Platform (freshnews.com) [edit]
  3. Sina Weibo, China’s Equivalent of Facebook and Twitter, Gets $586M Investment From Alibaba (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. ucweb.com [edit]
  5. Yahoo buys US$1 billion stake in Alibaba (chinadaily.com.cn) [edit]
    Alibaba.com CEO And COO Out Because Of Vendor Fraud (techcrunch.com) [edit]
    Silver Lake and DST Global Invest in China’s Alibaba Group (invest-iq.net) [edit]
    Silver Lake and DST Global Invest in China’s Alibaba Group (invest-iq.net) [edit]
    Alibaba spends $300M to buy one third of Chinese mapping company (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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