In many ways , it is easier to describe what Alibaba doesn ’ t do rather than what it does . Its main business revolves around its suite of ecommerce sites ( Alibaba . com , Taobao and Tmall ), but it also has interests in electronic payments and numerous other services including cloud computing . Alibaba ’ s cloud offering consists of a range of services from elastic computing to communications to databases . The company also advertises its role as a gateway to China for western companies to access the market through the cloud .

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