Alibaba Group

Alibaba chief steps down as $294 mn deal announced

11 May 2013

Alibaba chief Jack Ma stepped down on Friday before a potential initial public offering as the Chinese online retail giant announced a $294 million stake purchase in digital mapping firm AutoNavi...

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Sina, Alibaba resurrect tie-up talks

29 Apr 2013

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.

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Jack Ma sees China online trade entering 'golden age'

21 Mar 2013

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...

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Alibaba follows the money for IPO destination

8 Mar 2013

The destination of Alibaba Group's much-anticipated initial public offering will likely be determined by this catchphrase: "Show me the money".

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Alibaba may be considering an IPO in the US

7 Mar 2013

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...

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Alibaba writ claims four Hong Kong companies stole its names

3 Feb 2013

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

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Opinion

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

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Shirley Yam

What were our top officials doing to let HKMEx fail?

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Chinese farmers turn to e-commerce to sell medicinal herbs

Farmers in Guanyeping village, in China's Henan province, are using e-commerce via Taobao to sell herbs for Chinese medicine, significantly improving their standard of living.

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Alibaba celebrates 1.2 million users on Taobao in Hong Kong

Mainland e-commerce giant Alibaba Group said its customer-to-customer online trading platform Taobao has been growing robustly in Hong Kong.

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Taobao, 7-Eleven offer new payment scheme for Hong Kong's online shoppers

The Alibaba Group's internet retail subsidiaries, Taobao Marketplace and Tmall.com have teamed up with convenience store giant 7-Eleven to deliver a more efficient payment tool for Hong Kong...

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DESIGN

Objects of desire: Boho

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TECHNOLOGY

ChinaSoft, Alibaba subsidiary form cloud computing alliance

ChinaSoft International, a leading software and information-technology services provider based in Beijing, will collaborate with a subsidiary of Alibaba Group in a major cloud-computing initiative...

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E-COMMERCE

Taobao makes big push to shed US ‘notorious’ label

China’s largest e-commerce company, Alibaba, has won support from the US movie industry in its campaign to persuade the Obama administration to drop its Taobao.com website from a US list of “...

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