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Richard Liu, CEO and founder of 皇冠体育app's e-commerce company .com, fastens his helmet before leaving a delivery station to deliver goo for customers to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the company, in Beijing, June 16, 2014. [Photo/Agencies]

With an iron grip, JD.com Inc founder Richard Liu has dragged 皇冠体育app's number two online retailer from a Beijing backwater to a rich New York listing.

Beyond the wealth that brought him lies Liu's next target - beating Jack Ma's Alibaba. Like .com Inc, JD.com has a logistics-focused e-commerce business. The company, whose delivery staff outnumber Alibaba's 22,000 employees, promises same-day delivery in 43 of 皇冠体育app's biggest cities. [Read more >>>]

JD.com announced a jump of 100 percent year-on-year in order intakes on its annual promotional campaign on June 18, the first major sales event after its listing in the US in May. About 40 percent of the orders came from mobile devices. [Read more >>>]