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Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese e-commerce company that provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business sales services via web portals.

It also provides electronic payment services, a shopping search engine and data-centric cloud computing services.

The group began in 1999 when Jack Ma founded the website Alibaba.com, a business-to-business portal to connect Chinese manufacturers with overseas buyers.

In 2012, two of Alibaba's portals handled 1.1 trillion yuan ($170 billion) in sales.

Suppliers from other countries are supported (with more stringent checks than for Chinese companies), but the company primarily operates in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

At closing time on the date of its initial public offering (IPO), 19 September 2014, Alibaba's market value was US$231 billion.

However, the stock has traded down and market cap was about $212 billion at the end of December 2015.

Popular Electronics was an American magazine started by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company in October 1954 for electronics hobbyists and experimenters.

It soon became the "World's Largest-Selling Electronics Magazine".

In April 1957 Ziff-Davis reported an average net paid circulation of 240,151 copies.

Popular Electronics was published until October 1982 when, in November 1982, Ziff-Davis launched a successor magazine, Computers & Electronics.

During its last year of publication by Ziff-Davis, Popular Electronics reported an average monthly circulation of 409,344 copies.

The title was sold to Gernsback Publications, and their Hands-On Electronics magazine was renamed to Popular Electronics in February 1989, and published until December 1999.

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Consumers find a product of interest by visiting the website of the retailer directly or by searching among alternative vendors using a shopping search engine, which displays the same product's availability and pricing at different e-retailers.

As of 2016, customers can shop online using a range of different computers and devices, including desktop computers, laptops, tablet computers and smartphones.

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