Alibaba may have dominated the online sales business via personal computers, but the future of online businesses look increasingly mobile and it poses a huge challenge to the company - AFP Photo.
BEIJING: Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd may have dominated online retail on personal computers, but is some way from replicating that leadership in shopping by smartphone and other mobile devices.
Alibaba, which is heading towards a bumper New York IPO later this year, is throwing billions of dollars at figuring out how to thrive as half a billion people, 80% of China's 618 million internet users, go online via mobile.
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