AliExpress started as a business-to-consumer buying and selling portal. Aliexpress is a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, but unlike its sister organization Alibaba.com, it is not a business to business entity but a business to customer platform that sells different products to customers worldwide where they can purchase single piece items. In 2010 the platform went live and offers electronics, clothing, home goods at wholesale pricing.[8] It has since expanded to include business-to-consumer, consumer-to-consumer, cloud computing and payment services. As of 2016 AliExpress ran websites in English, Chinese, Spanish, Korean, Dutch, French, Italian, German, Polish, Turkish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Russian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Japanese, Thai and other languages - English being the default offered to those countries with languages outside the preceding list.