Today’s featured stories Years after patenting the concept, Amazon admits putting workers in a cage would be a bad idea Updated: Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma plans to retire after building… Read More
Almost 20 years after he founded Alibaba, the Amazon of China, Executive Chairman Jack Ma plans to retire to focus on philanthropy, according to a report. In an interview with… Read More
Embed from Getty Images One of China’s top business leaders met with Donald Trump today in what was described by both as a “great” meeting. The president-elect and Alibaba Chairman… Read More
Alibaba Pictures, the film and television arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, is teaming up with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners to finance, produce, market and distribute films in China and… Read More
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg continued his charm offensive in China this week, meeting with the country’s propaganda tsar and going on a controversial jog in the smog as part a long-term… Read More
Consumers in India trust Amazon’s brand more than any other web retailer, according to a survey of 2,500 people there. When it came to trust, Amazon inspired more of it… Read More
Jack Ma, founder and executive chairman of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, is in talks to buy an undisclosed stake in the Chinese business and financial magazine, Caixin, through Alibaba’s financial arm, Ant… Read More
Perhaps Jeff Bezos started a trend two years ago when the Amazon founder acquired the Washington Post. Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba announced today that it has acquired the South China Morning… Read More
HANGZHOU, China — To produce more entrepreneurs that help build innovative companies, Jack Ma says we should rethink how young students are educated. Before meeting with players and coaches from the… Read More
HANGZHOU, China — Alibaba, athletics, and American universities came together on Tuesday in China at the headquarters of one of the world’s largest technology companies. Ahead of Saturday’s bout between… Read More
Many of the world’s top technology CEOs were looking fancy and fresh at Microsoft’s headquarters on Wednesday — even Mark Zuckerberg cleaned up — but it was Amazon’s boss that took… Read More
Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce darling that exploded last year in its public market debut, is getting hammered today after a distressing piece in Barron’s predicted the stock will decline by half. In… Read More
Alibaba is aiming to be an e-commerce powerhouse on a scale no one else can match. That was the message Alibaba’s Founder and executive chairman Jack Ma delivered today at The Economic Club of… Read More
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is implementing a hiring freeze, saying it grew too quickly over the past year. “Alibaba has really developed too quickly,” said Jack Ma, the company’s executive chairman. “This year our… Read More
E-commerce titans Amazon.com and Alibaba appear to be on a collision course of sorts. And now here’s one very interesting aspect of the brewing battle. Forbes reports that Alibaba recently… Read More
The first time Alibaba’s Founder and CEO Jack Ma used the Internet he was in Seattle. “I tried the Internet in Seattle in a building called U.S. Bank,” he told talk-show… Read More
In the latest sign of Alibaba’s global ambitions, the Chinese e-commerce company is planning to take its key Taobao marketplace international, including an English version, according to comments by Alibaba founder… Read More
Watch out, Amazon: Apple and Alibaba may be teaming up. Both Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alibaba CEO Jack Ma spoke at the WSJ Live conference last night about their… Read More