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Website History In May 2003, Alibaba invested RMB 654.38+0 billion to launch Taobao (Taobao.com), a personal online trading platform, to build the world's largest personal trading website. In July 2004, the additional investment was 350 million yuan, and in June 2005, the additional investment was 654.38 billion yuan. By June 365438+February 3, 2005, there were more than16.63 million online products and more than1390,000 registered members. In the fourth quarter of 2005, the transaction volume reached RMB 3.03 billion, accounting for 70% of the C2C market in China, and it was far ahead in the personal e-commerce market in China. ◆ June 5438+October 2003 10, Alibaba established Alipay, an independent third-party payment platform, and officially entered the field of electronic payment. At present, Alipay has established strategic cooperation with major financial institutions such as Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Agricultural Bank, China Merchants Bank and VISA International Organization, and has become the largest independent third-party electronic payment platform in China. As of June 5438+February, 2005, the daily average transaction volume of Taobao through Alipay has exceeded 20 million RMB, and the growth trend is still rapid. In August, 2005, Alibaba reached a strategic cooperation with Yahoo, the world's largest portal. Alibaba acquired all Yahoo's assets in China, making Alibaba the largest Internet company in China. At present, Alibaba owns the following businesses: B2B (mainly Alibaba website), C2C (Taobao, Easy Auction), electronic payment (Alipay) and portal+search (Yahoo). ◆ On July 28th, Alibaba Group started the listing procedure in Hong Kong, and Alibaba officially submitted its first listing application to the Listing Committee of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, listing its B2B (business-to-business electronic commerce) company in Hong Kong. As a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, Alibaba is a leading B2B e-commerce company in China. From the total user visits, the international trade website (www.alibaba.com) for global import and export enterprises and the domestic trade website (www.alibaba.com.cn) for domestic trade buyers and sellers are the most popular B2B Internet trading platforms. Alibaba provides effective B2B e-commerce solutions for global SMEs. Alibaba International Station is a leading online B2B trading market, where global buyers and importers look for suppliers from China and other manufacturing countries. As of June 5438+February 3, 20061,Alibaba International Station has more than 3 million registered users from more than 200 countries and regions. Alibaba China Station is the leading B2B online trading market in China. As of June 5438+February 3, 20061,the registered users of Alibaba China Station in China exceeded160,000. Ali Mama (www.alimama.com) is a brand-new trading platform, which introduces the concept of "advertisement is commodity" for the first time, and makes advertisements appear as commodities in the trading market for the first time, so that buyers and sellers can see them clearly. Advertising is no longer the patent of some people. Mom Ali makes it easy for buyers (advertisers) and sellers (website owners) to find each other! Chronology of events199865438+In February, Ma Yun and other founders 17 released the first online trading market in Hangzhou, China, named "Alibaba Online" 1999, and Alibaba Group officially put into operation. From June 5, 2000 to 10, in order to better promote the export trade of China sellers, the company launched the "China supplier" service. In June 20001year, in order to better serve international sellers, the company launched the "Cheng Xintong" member international station. In March 2002, the company launched the "Cheng Xintong" membership program in China Station to better serve the sellers and buyers engaged in domestic trade in China. On June 5438+ 10, 2003, the company launched a communication software tool "Tradelink" to enable buyers and sellers to communicate in real time through the network. In March 2005, Alibaba Chinese Station launched the keyword bidding service. In April 2007, Hongkong "China Supplier" service was launched to promote export trade. In August 2007, he submitted a listing application to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. In June 2007, it was successfully listed. On April 1 1 day, 2008, Alibaba's strategic product "winport" was officially opened for experience. The reporter learned from Alibaba that the name of this strategic product is enterprise-level e-commerce basic platform, which will help small and medium-sized enterprises take the first step in online business. According to the relevant person in charge of Alibaba, Alibaba's "Wangpu" currently includes three platforms: enterprise information display platform, enterprise marketing analysis platform and enterprise communication platform; In the future, Alibaba "Wangpu" will gradually expand more basic application platforms to help small and medium-sized enterprises carry out e-commerce. Alibaba's financing memorabilia: 1999 10, introducing the first phase of $5 million angel fund including Goldman Sachs, Fidelity Capital and Singapore Government Science and Technology Development Fund; June, 5438 +2000 10, which was funded by Softbank of Japan for 20 million dollars; In February 2002, the third round of financing was carried out, and Japan Asia Investment Company invested 5 million US dollars. In February, 2004, it obtained a strategic investment of $82 million. Investors include Softbank, Fidelity Investment, Granite Global Ventures and TDF Venture Capital Co., Ltd.; In August 2005, it formed a strategic alliance with Yahoo. Alibaba actually earned $250 million in cash. These include $70 million from Yahoo (buying common stock) and $65.438+0.8 billion from Softbank (buying convertible bonds). Taobao became 100% holding company. Yahoo became the largest shareholder with 40% of the shares. Ma Yun and his team are the second largest shareholders, holding 28.2%, and Softbank is the third largest shareholder, holding 16%.