Alibaba.com, the Hong Kong-listed business-to-business unit of Alibaba Group, is currently in partnership with India's Infomedia 18, a publishing outsourcing firm, to help Alibaba with customer service and sales and marketing.

India is Alibaba's second-largest overseas market by member base with 1 million members.

Alibaba connects millions of registered small-business buyers and sellers of Chinese products online. US search engine Yahoo holds about 40 percent of Alibaba Group and has an investment of more than 1 percent in the listed firm.