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  1. Alibaba Group Holding Limited, branded as Alibaba (/ ˌ æ l i ˈ b ɑː b ə, ˌ ɑː-/), is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet, and technology.

    • Jack Ma

      Jack Ma Yun (Chinese: 马云; pinyin: Mǎ Yún; born 10 September...

    • History
    • Listing
    • Restructuring

    Early Years

    On 28 June 1999, Jack Ma and 17 friends started Alibaba.com, an online business marketplace, in Ma's apartment in Hangzhou, China. In October of the same year, Alibaba got a $25 million investment from Investor AB, Goldman Sachs, and SoftBank. The goal of Alibaba.com was to improve online shopping in China, especially for small and medium-sized businesses, and to help Chinese products sell globally while dealing with challenges from the World Trade Organization. By 2002, Alibaba.com started m...

    Expansion

    In 2005, Yahoo! invested $1 billion in Alibaba, buying a 40% company share. When Alibaba went public, Yahoo! made $10 billion from their investment alone. In 2012, China Investment Corporation led a group of Chinese investors to buy Yahoo!'s 40% share in Alibaba.: 130 In 2013, Alibaba planned to open traditional stores with Wanda Group. They also bought a 25% share in Intime Retail, a Chinese department store chain, in early 2014.In 2017, Alibaba and Intime's founder agreed to take the store...

    In May 2019, Bloomberg reported that Alibaba might raise $20 billion with a second listing in Hong Kong. In November 2019, they raised $12.9 billion in this listing, the year's largest offering. On 10 September 2019, Jack Ma stepped down as chairman, and Daniel Zhang took over.[source?] In November 2020, The Wall Street Journal said President Xi Ji...

    In March 2023, Alibaba announced a restructuring plan called "1+6+N". They divided their business into six separate parts: Cloud Intelligence Group, Taobao and Tmall Group, Cainiao Smart Logistics Network, Local Services Group, Alibaba International Digital Commerce, and the Digital Media and Entertainment group. Each part would have its CEO and bo...

  2. www.alibabagroup.com › en-US › about-alibabaAlibaba Group

    Alibaba Group is a leading e-commerce company founded in 1999 with six major business groups including Taobao, Tmall, Cainiao, and Cloud.

  3. Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing IaaS, PaaS, DBaaS and SaaS, including services such as e-commerce, big data, Database, IoT, Object storage (OSS), Kubernetes [23] and data customization which can be managed from Alibaba web page or using aliyun command line tool.

  4. Jan 19, 2017 · Alibaba Group, the e-commerce phenomenon founded in 1999, is now considered to be the world's largest retailer, surpassing Wal-Mart last year. At the end of the last financial year, the company posted a gross market value (GMV) of 3 trillion yuan, about $476 billion.

  5. Sep 18, 2014 · Profile of Jack Ma, the man who founded China's internet giant Alibaba, which now sells more than both Amazon and eBay combined.

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