1. Introduction Alibaba Group is the world’s outstanding business-to-business e-commerce service company‚ which provides an efficient online trading platform for buyers and suppliers all over the world. It is China’s largest e-commerce group which was founded by Jack Ma in 1999‚ and has developed into seven affiliated groups‚ namely Alibaba International Business Operations‚ Alibaba Small Business Operations‚ Taobao Marketplace‚ Tmall.com‚ Juhuasuan‚ e-Tao and Alibaba Cloud Computing (News‚ 2012)
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analysis of Alibaba 2.2.1 The Development of Alibaba Alibaba aAs a model of global B2B e-commerce model‚ from the launch site for the first time since it was founded at the end of 1998 to till right now‚ it Alibaba has has possessed more than 15 years of’ history. After four years of the establishment of the website‚ which is the end of 2002‚ . Alibaba get got its the first profit for the first time with‚ over six million yuanYuan in cash earningsin cash at the end of 2002 when it was the fourth year
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Research Shows How Patient Portals Impact Patient Care Patient portals‚ which are secure web based applications‚ provide patients the ease of access to their health care records at any time. Some portals include features such as‚ obtaining prescription refills and lab results‚ and communicating with their provider. With close to 80% of the population in North America using the internet to seek out health information‚ portals continue to gain popularity. The use of portals and personal health record
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STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PORTAL FRAMES CONSISTING OF SQUARE CFT COLUMNS Jun Kawaguchi‚ Shosuke Morino‚ Toshikazu Sugimoto and Junya Shirai Department of Architecture‚ Mie University 1515 Kamihama-cho‚ Tsu-shi‚ Mie‚ 514-8507 JAPAN T: 81-59-231-9450; F: 81-59-231-9452; E: jkawa@arch.mie-u.ac.jp ABSTRACT In order to clarify the elasto-plastic behavior of the frame consisting of concrete-filled steel tube (CFT) columns and H-shaped steel beams under seismic loading‚ portal frame specimens were
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Introduction In 1999 Jack Ma was living in a small apartment with his wife in Hangzhou‚ China‚ when he came up with the idea for Alibaba. That little idea‚ of course‚ evolved into one of the biggest tech companies on the planet and made Ma a billionaire many times over. Just like the garages where Hewlett-Packard‚ Apple and Google were started‚ the apartment in Hangzhou is now a shrine—another sacred spot in the tech world. Alibaba.com is the flagship company of Alibaba Group‚ is the world’s largest
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Patient Portals HCS/490 January 28‚ 2013 Russell Wettstein Patient Portals Every day more and more people use the internet to communicate with friends‚ family‚ and coworkers. The internet is used for banking‚ making reservations‚ reading books‚ and now they can manage their health care online. Many providers now offer health care portals to their patients. They can email their physician‚ check lab results‚ and even make appointments right from the comfort of their home. Portals have the
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entails developing a web based application for Dau Alumni Portal for two of the faculties that is Faculty of Information Technology and the Careers Department which both are facing a problem on how to keep in touch with their graduate student. As for solving this problem‚ portal for alumni need to build as the objective is to create a system of a "middle person" entity‚ allowing alumni members and non-members to communicate in virtually. This portal is Internet web-based systems that consist of interactive
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Branding in B2B Markets Business Marketing Term Paper CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 A MODEL OF BRANDING IN B2B MARKETS 4 CURRENT BRANDING PRACTICES 5 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN B2B BRANDING AND B2C BRANDING 7 IMPORTANCE OF BRANDING IN BUSINESS TO BUSINESS MARKETING 11 AVOIDING THE PITFALLS 15 REFERENCES 20 INTRODUCTION With the growth of e-commerce and global competition‚ business-to-business (B2B) marketers are asking whether branding‚ especially corporate branding‚ can help improve
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Introduction 15 years ago‚ Alibaba is only a small company founded by a group of 18 people. Nowadays‚ Alibaba has been grown as a Chinese e-commerce empire across electric commerce‚ finance industry and wireless industry who also owns 10 subsidiary companies. Besides‚ the most important resource perceived by Alibaba which called Alibabaer‚ employees of Alibaba‚ has been grown to 24‚000 people (February‚ 2014). In the same time‚ as a untraditional company‚ Alibaba has established a strong company
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MGMT 614 CORPORATE STRATEGY SMU MBA (PART-TIME) 2015 Table of Contents 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 2. ALIBABA BACKGROUND AND HISTORY 3 2.1. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF ALIBABA 3 2.2 MISSION/VISION 6 3. STRATEGIC ANALYSIS 7 3.1. BUSINESS ANALYSIS 8 3.1.1 Overview 8 3.2.2 Domestic retail market 9 3.2.3 Global wholesale market (Alibaba.com) 16 3.2.4 Domestic wholesale market (1688.com) 17 3.2.5 Global retail market(AliExpress.com) 18 3.2.6 Cloud computing and Internet Infrastructure 19
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