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Jack Ma, a former English teacher from Hangzhou, started Alibaba.com with 17 other founders in 1999 as a trading platform for small manufacturers to sell their wares. Since then Alibaba.com has grown into the premier online marketplace for small businesses around the world to identify potential trading partners and interact with each other to conduct business online. Alibaba.com completed its US$1.7 billion initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in November 2007, the biggest Int |