Alibaba Group is a global e-commerce leader, and the largest e-commerce company in China. It was found at 1999, and it already has six core member companies during these years development. Alibaba.com Limited lists on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on November 20 of 2007.

• Alibaba.com – It is a B2B e-commerce company and also the main businee of Alibaba Group. Most of its users are small and medium size companies in China and around the world

• Taobao – A online shopping service in China

• Alipay – A online payment service

• Yahoo! China - A search engine and lifestyle portal, acquired from Yahoo! Inc. in October 2005

• Alisoft - An Internet-based business management software company targeting SMEs in China

• Alimama - An online advertising exchange for web publishers and advertisers to trade online advertising inventory in China
  

Alibaba.com is the leading B2B e-commerce company in China. It sets up a high efficiency and trustful platform for buyers and suppliers who both come from China and other countries of the world. Its international trade website (www. alibaba.com) focuses on international import and export trade. The Chinese website focuses on buyers and sellers of domestic trade. Until 30 June of 2007, there are more than 24 million people who come from over 200 countries register in the Chinese website.

Founded in 1999, Alibaba.com has been the flagship company of Alibaba group. Its operation headquarts is in Hong Zhou of China. Its sale persons and marketing offices spread over 30 cities such as Hong Zhou, Hong Kong and Switzerland. Until 30 June of 2007, there are over 4,400 employees.


Taobao is a online marketplace. Until 30 June of 2007, the amount of registered users has been over 39 million. Taobao facilitates transactions between individual consumers and a wide range of sellers including individuals and retailers. In Taobao Sellers can sell new or used products by in fixed price, auction or negotiation. Consumers may search, shop and transact with sellers on the Taobao marketplace.

Alipay provides a leading online payment service in China, and both the amount of registered users and transactions are in a leading position. Alipay's service enables individuals and businesses to execute payments online in a safe and secure manner. Most of users of Alipay are buyers and sellers who engage in e-commerce. Until 30 June of 2007, the amount of registered users is over 45.3 million. Alipay is widely used by network shopkeepers, network consumption product, service providers, Taobao and other online payment providers of Chinese marketplaces. Alipay partners with domestic PRC banks to provide an escrow service for payments, which reduces the settlement risks faced by Alipay's customers in their e-commerce transactions.

Alisoft develops, markets and delivers Internet-based business management software targeting SMEs in China. Alisoft provides kinds of management software such as business management software, information management software and basic accounting software.

Yahoo! China is a website which is in Chinese and provides portal service. It includes mailbox, finance, sport, lifestyle, entertainment and also web search service. It is targeted at individual internet users in China. Yahoo! China's paying customers primarily consist of advertisers that purchase fixed price banner advertisements, text-links or auction-based pay-for-performance marketing services on Yahoo! China's website. Alibaba group acquires Yahoo! China from Yahoo at October of 2005. Meanwhile, yahoo becomes a stakeholder of Alibaba group. In connection with this transaction, Yahoo! agreed Alibaba Group to use in China the "Yahoo!" name and certain technologies owned by Yahoo!, as well as the right to sub-license these rights to other members of Alibaba Group.


Alimama is a platform of advertisement exchange on the internet, and which allows web publishers and advertisers to trade online advertising inventory. A wholly owned subsidiary of Alibaba Group, Alimama is designed to serve the more than one million small- and medium- sized websites in China which generate an estimated 80% of China's website traffic. Alimama helps to connect these web publishers to advertisers. On one hand, web publishers can menitize the web traffic by attracting more advertisments. On the other hand, it is a easy way for adversisers to reach highly targeted audience groups.

Reference:

http://www.alibaba.com/

http://www.taobao.com/

http://www.yahoo.com.cn/

http://www.alisoft.com/

http://www.alimama.com/