Alibaba Group is a global leader in e-commerce. Founded in 1999, Alibaba Group is comprised of five core businesses -- each a leader in their category from both a business and geographical perspective. Those core businesses are: Alibaba.com; Taobao.com; Alipay.com; Alisoft.com; and Yahoo! Koubei. The privately held Alibaba Group employed approximately 12,000 people as of year-end 2008 and has plans to hire another 5,000 people in 2009. As part of its growth plan, Alibaba Group is committed to operating with leading-edge e-commerce technology, and is accelerating its financial investment in research and development to improve the Group's innovative and technical strengths in order to better serve users. HYSTA is excited and honored to invite Silicon Valley Chinese IT professionals to have a town hall style dialog with Jack Ma, chairman and chief executive officer of Alibaba Group and other Alibaba senior leaders, to discuss technology driven e-commerce. During this event, you will have an opportunity to hear Jack Ma's views on e-commerce and technology, to learn from Jian Wang, Alibaba Group chief architect, about his plans to build a world-class Alibaba R&D center and his vision to help the Alibaba Group become the best techno-centric e-commerce company in the world, and to meet all key members of Alibaba Group senior leadership team.
