Alibaba - who challenges the online giants

Alibaba company, founded in China in 1999 with an initial capital of $ 2,000, affirmed its strategy in the near future is to win eBay, determined to buy Yahoo and the firm of the world's leading search firm Google.

Alibaba executives Jack Ma vowed to make Google lose in the Chinese arena and become " the unbeatable king " in the web in the country.

Ma said Google was having trouble in China and the reason the company sold a 40% stake to Yahoo for $ 1 billion was to " put money into building its own search engine to push Google out of it." Asian place ".

He also affirmed that the company's electronic retailer taobao.com had destroyed all hopes of online trading group eBay. " Alibaba is 20 times bigger than eBay and has 11 million product portfolios on the website. The game is nearing its end. As for search engines, Google is very powerful but does not mean they will be against. formidable player in China ".

Alibaba's CEO continued: " Google and Yahoo are ocean sharks. We are crocodiles on the Yangtze River. The battle is happening at Yangzi line. Therefore, we have many advantages. more than they ".

Alibaba also plans to expand its territory to Korea within the next 2 years, followed by Japan and other Asian countries. Mr. Ma predicts that China will become " the number one Internet country in the world" in just five years.

PT ( according to AFP )