3 Things Everyone Should Know About Alibaba and Its IPO

The Street ^ | 6-26-2014 | Stefan Cheplick

[Citizen Zed]

1. Alibaba dominates e-commerce in China. They once did $5.75 billion in sales over 24-hours. According to most estimates, that's an e-commerce world record. 2. The Alibaba IPO could turn out to be one of largest-ever IPOs by total proceeds. Yes, this IPO is huge. 3. Alibaba has major investment and ownership stakes throughout China's tech scene. This is perhaps the sneakiest aspect of Alibaba -- that they are going all in on Chinese tech

[yldstrk]

Ali Baba and the 40 thieves?

[yldstrk]

Ali Baba and the 40 thieves?

[D_Idaho]

Business in China is a function of the People’s Liberation Army.

[Chgogal]

No doofus! : ) I mean that will all due respect.

1. Alibaba dominates e-commerce in China. They once did $5.75 billion in sales over 24-hours. According to most estimates, that's an e-commerce world record. They own and operate Alibaba.com, Tmall.com and Taoboa.com:

[Chgogal]

It's been long time but I thought you may find this interesting.

From what I know there are two ways for little people to get involved with this IPO. One is by buying Yahoo and the other is buying shares in Japan's SoftBank.

http://online.barrons.com/news/articles/SB50001424053111903301904579566830459426854

[expat_panama]

Yes & thx for the heads up!  Scary how fast things are happening, while checking the Aibaba ipo I caught this-- SoftBank Mobile and Aldebaran Unveil "Pepper" - the World's First Personal Robot That Reads Emotions)