Business
Alibaba is separating the company into six business groups as it looks to react faster to market changes and increase its value.
March 28, 2023
An anti-counterfeiting group said Friday that it is suspending Alibaba’s membership after an uproar by some companies that view the Chinese e-commerce giant as the world’s largest marketplace for fakes.
May 13, 2016
China’s Alibaba Group has announced a major management reshuffle as the e-commerce giant restructures to adapt to fast-changing technologies.
June 20, 2023
Alibaba.com shareholders OK $2.5 billion privatization bid
May 25, 2012
Alibaba Group Holding, the Chinese e-commerce giant that looks a bit like a mash-up of EBay, PayPal and Amazon, plans to pay $2.5 billion to snatch back Yahoo Inc.’s 27% stake in Alibaba.com.
Company Town
China’s Dalian Wanda Group has agreed to sell a $1.24-billion minority stake of its cinema subsidiary Wanda Film to tech giant Alibaba Group and a government-backed investor, in the latest move by the Beijing-based property and entertainment giant to shore up its finances.
Feb. 5, 2018
Movies
Alibaba Pictures Group, the film subsidiary of Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba, said Thursday that it would issue new shares to raise $1.6 billion to fund acquisitions and investments.
June 4, 2015
Technology and the Internet
Alibaba Group, the Chinese Internet giant, filed Tuesday for its long-awaited initial public offering of stock in the U.S. in which it could raise as much as $15 billion.
May 6, 2014
Alibaba Group Holding is considering raising $20 billion via a second listing in Hong Kong after a record-breaking 2014 New York debut, people with knowledge of the matter said — a mega-deal that will bring China’s largest company closer to friendlier investors at home as U.S. tensions escalate.
May 28, 2019
Alibaba Pictures, the film and TV production arm of Jack Ma’s e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, has named a new chief executive to grow the upstart entertainment business and contend with what he called “drastic changes” in the Chinese film industry.
Dec. 6, 2016