[PoloSec]

Nothing foolish happening here, move on folks.

[Jim from C-Town]

Yes, The Chinese Communists are nothing if not trustworthy! They would never lie about earnings or steel technologies from others.

[Argus]

Wasn’t Ali Baba the leader of a gang of thieves?

[Cicero]

Is the company’s full name Ali Baba and the Seven Thieves?

[zeestephen]

Re: “Alibaba - a Chinese company whose online retail sales exceed those of U.S. competitors like Amazon and Ebay.”

That's surprising.

China has 4 times as many people.

But, the USA has 8 times the per capita income.

Plus, at first glance, home delivery in China looks like it would be more complex, slower, and more expensive than in America, but I don't know how to find reliable Chinese data on that.

My instincts say that Alibaba owes a large measure of its success to the absence of competitors which, most likely, is vigorously enforced by the Communist Party.

[ExCTCitizen]

Alibaba was started as a b2b site (to those in Rio Linda, that's business to business), I saw a few things from them (boats and bikes) that might be of interest to consumers.

of course, with the boats made in china.. I wonder if they would sink.