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Alibaba names Joe Tsai chairman and Eddie Wu CEO

20 Jun 2023 - 7:43PM

Alibaba starts trading on Hong Kong stock exchange

26 Nov 2019 - 1:42PM

Tmall is Alibaba’s answer to Amazon in China

20 Sep 2019 - 8:09AM

Singles’ Day, the shopping event that makes Black Friday look like a yard sale

November 11 is China’s Singles’ Day, a national online shopping feast. Started by Alibaba in 2009, its sales volume now is bigger than Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined.

20 Sep 2019 - 8:09AM

From failing student to Alibaba founder: The story of Jack Ma

Ma Yun, or Jack Ma, is the co-founder and former chairman of Alibaba -- the ecommerce giant best known for the shopping sites Taobao and Tmall. A former English teacher, he launched Alibaba in 1999 from an apartment in Hangzhou.

20 Sep 2019 - 8:08AM

New | Popular Chinese taxi-booking apps leave smartphone-free travellers out in the cold

30 Jan 2014 - 3:46PM

New | Chinese internet giants transplant 'red envelopes' holiday tradition to mobile cyberspace

27 Jan 2014 - 6:21PM

WeChat’s 600 million users around the world can now send and receive virtual “red envelopes”. Photo: Reuters

Alibaba's Jack Ma is 'delirious,' says real estate tycoon

16 Nov 2013 - 3:00PMvideocam

Jack Ma slams e-business owners who don’t pay tax as 'immoral'

16 Nov 2013 - 3:09PM

Alipay upgrades mobile application

In a move to strengthen its position in China's vast and increasingly competitive e-commerce market, Alipay has upgraded its mobile application for smartphones to a version that allows users to pay for purchases even when they are not connected to the internet.

17 Oct 2013 - 4:06AM

Alipay is the dominant third-party payment platform but many other companies are keen to grab a piece of the action. Photo: Bloomberg

Yahoo to keep bigger stake than planned in Alibaba after IPO

16 Oct 2013 - 3:21PM

Yahoo owns 24 per cent of Alibaba. Photo: Reuters

Alibaba wants counterfeiters to go out of fashion from its online platform

Alibaba Group, the mainland's biggest e-commerce services provider, looks set to burnish its credentials with more foreign luxury brands after it forged an anti-counterfeiting pact with French fashion house Louis Vuitton Malletier.

16 Oct 2013 - 3:05AM

Alibaba's quest to build a nationwide online retail network

14 Oct 2013 - 3:32PM

Alibaba consortium buys US$200 million stake in US retail website

17 Oct 2013 - 4:32PM

Alibaba plans a stock exchange listing soon, but not in Hong Kong. Photo: Reuters

Alibaba open to IPO concessions

Alibaba Group would cut the number of partners the firm has and bind them to a three-year share sale ban if Hong Kong regulators accept a controversial management structure that is blocking its potential HK$100 billion initial public offering, a source close to the listing authorities told the South China Morning Post.

25 Sep 2013 - 4:13AM

Charles Li (second from right) celebrates the first anniversary of China Exchanges Services Co (CESC) with (from left) Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Chan Ka-keung, Chow Chung-kong from HKEx, Liaison Office's Sun Xiangyi and CESC's Fu Dewei. Photo: Nora Tam

Alibaba’s Ma expands banking foray with China Minsheng tie-up

16 Sep 2013 - 7:12PM

Corporate China | Listings: Alibaba in setback, Spreadtrum bows

8 Sep 2013 - 9:13AM

Corporate China | More M&A with Alibaba-PPTV tie-up talk

Internet leaders Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU) and Alibaba are in a recent war to see who can win the most headlines for online M&A, which has suddenly accelerated in China after years of inactivity.

16 Aug 2013 - 5:18PM

Magnetic boss, Alibaba jackpot rejuvenate Yahoo

16 Jul 2013 - 1:14PM

Alibaba founder Jack Ma turns to pursuing cultural endeavours

"Commerce will only be a hobby," Ma, who stepped down as chief executive of the mainland's largest e-commerce company on May 10, told the South China Morning Post.

13 Jul 2013 - 9:11AM

Alibaba forms consortium to build 100b yuan logistics network

29 May 2013 - 2:51AM

Alibaba's Jack Ma will head the new logistics project. Photo: Reuters

Alibaba chief steps down as $294 mn deal announced

11 May 2013 - 10:09AM

Opinion | Sina, Alibaba resurrect tie-up talks

It looks like I may have been premature in declaring last month that talks for a tie-up between leading web portal Sina and e-commerce leader Alibaba were dead.

29 Apr 2013 - 10:55AM

Jack Ma sees China online trade entering 'golden age'

Alibaba Group chairman Jack Ma Yun predicts that the mainland's e-commerce market is entering a "golden age", which will see 30 per cent of total retail sales moving online in the next five years.

21 Mar 2013 - 5:36AM

Alibaba follows the money for IPO destination

8 Mar 2013 - 5:37AM

A listing this year may value Alibaba at US$80 billion. Photo: Reuters

Alibaba may be considering an IPO in the US

Senior finance executives of Alibaba Group, which is widely expected to be planning its initial public offering this year, held a closed-door discussion with a representative of the American exchange yesterday at an undisclosed venue in Hong Kong, two people familiar with the situation said.

7 Mar 2013 - 6:12AM

Speculation about Alibaba's listing plans for later this year was fuelled by the decision of company founder Jack Ma to step down as chief executive on May 10. Photo: Bloomberg

Alibaba writ claims four Hong Kong companies stole its names

Alibaba, which runs the popular online shipping site Taobao, is suing Officeplus Company for using the Chinese characters for Taobao in its company name.

3 Feb 2013 - 5:36AM

Chinese farmers turn to e-commerce to sell medicinal herbs

19 Dec 2012 - 11:54AMvideocam

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Alibaba Group

Alibaba is China's largest e-commerce company, with holdings in a wide portfolio of businesses from logistics, cloud services and finance to media. The company provides business-to-business, business-to-consumer and other services through platforms including Alibaba.com, Tmall, and Taobao. Alibaba is the owner of the South China Morning Post. It was co-founded by Jack Ma, who retired as chairman in 2019 but is still a major shareholder.

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21 August, 2024