All the stories tagged with alibaba
Jack Ma Of Alibaba To Step Down
01/16/2013, Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma made a rather shocking announcement on Tuesday concerning his plans to relinquish his position as CEO, as he had the idea of retirement playing about his mind for a while already. In fact, in June [...]
Alibaba purchased half of Yahoo’s stake
09/19/2012, Earlier in February this year, there was talk about Alibaba picking up Yahoo, but that did not materialize. Well, we do know that Alibaba is one the larger companies in China that can be considered to be a market leader, [...]
Acer ditches Alibaba at the smartphone altar
09/13/2012, We have word that Acer has called off a smartphone launch with Alibaba at the eleventh hour, with Alibaba (the biggest e-commerce company in China that did mull over purchasing a controlling stake in Yahoo) citing that pressure from Google [...]
Alibaba might go private for $2.3 billion
02/15/2012, Remember all the earlier talk about Alibaba and Yahoo working something out, only to have pessimism about the deal seep in not too soon? Well, the latest news surrounding Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba is this – they might just take [...]
Yahoo-Alibaba talks breaking down
02/15/2012, Remember our story about Alibaba looking into the possible purchase of a major stake in Yahoo? Well, it seems that the talks between both Internet giants have hit a brick wall – which means their plans for a $17 billion [...]
Alibaba casts an eye at Yahoo
02/10/2012, Alibaba of China is reportedly mulling over the possibility of going private with their Hong Kong-listed unit, according to Reuters who got in touch with a couple of sources close to the e-commerce group. This is apparently part of a [...]
Alibaba to launch its own Google+ like social network
12/02/2011, Alibaba has often been referred to as China’s answer to Google, and rightfully so. They are one of the country’s largest (if not the largest) search engine and have even services and products that mirror Google’s own, so it’s really [...]
Alibaba W800 Aliyun phone
10/25/2011, We did mention yesterday that Alibaba is working on a Chinese iPad – not an Apple iPad that will run on the Chinese language, but rather, the Chinese version of the iPad, or a tablet of iPad epicness if you [...]
Chinese iPad by Alibaba ready to rock and roll
10/24/2011, Before you usher in the new year, Jack Ma, ‘The Steve Jobs of China’, has just confirmed that his company, Alibaba, will be rolling out a Chinese version of the iPad. It is not an iPad per se, but will [...]
Aliyun OS is Alibaba’s new mobile platform
07/28/2011, With many considering Alibaba to be the Google of China and even launching their own mobile payment services, AliPay, we have to admit that seeing them launch their very own mobile operating system really did not come as big a [...]
Alibaba brings mobile wallet technology to China
07/05/2011, For those who are unfamiliar with Alibaba, they have sometimes been called the Google of China, and they are fast gaining ground. As we all know, Google has recently joined up with Sprint in order to put out Google Wallet, [...]
