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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.

Shopify is a Canadian e-commerce company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, that develops computer software for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems.

eBay Inc. is a multinational e-commerce corporation, facilitating online consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales.

It is headquartered in San Jose, California.

eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995, and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble.

Today it is a multibillion-dollar business with operations in about 30 countries.

1-Click, also called one-click or one-click buying, is the technique of allowing customers to make online purchases with a single click, with the payment information needed to complete the purchase having been entered by the user previously.

More particularly, it allows an online shopper using an internet marketplace to purchase an item without having to use shopping cart software.

Instead of manually inputting billing and shipping information for a purchase, a user can use one-click buying to use a predefined address and credit card number to purchase one or more items.

Amazon.com (or), also called Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company that was founded on July 5, 1994, by Jeff Bezos and is based in Seattle, Washington.

It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the world by total sales and market capitalization.

Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, later diversifying to sell DVDs, Blu-rays, CDs, video downloads/streaming, MP3 downloads/streaming, audiobook downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry.

The company also produces consumer electronics—notably, Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Echo—and is the world's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services (IaaS and PaaS).

Amazon also sells certain low-end products like USB cables under its in-house brand AmazonBasics.