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At the end of December, Alibaba had 6.26 per cent stake in the firm and it had sold around 3 per cent of it in January
AI has found its way into a number of industries, from transportation to health. Now it is being integrated with search engines
There is no respite for SoftBank Group in the ongoing global tech meltdown as the Japanese investment giant on Tuesday reported a massive around $5.9 billion net loss
He also warned against "any infiltration of capital into politics that undermines the political ecosystem or the environment for economic development"
According to media reports, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd plans to sell a stake of about 3 per cent in Indian food delivery firm Zomato worth $200 million through a block deal
Chinese billionaire and e-commerce giant Alibaba founder Jack Ma who ran into trouble with the Chinese government over violating anti-monopoly regulations and kept a low profile since 2020 is now living in Tokyo for about six months, according to a media report on Tuesday. Ma's months-long stay in Japan with his family has included stints in hot springs and ski resorts in the countryside outside Tokyo and regular trips to the US and Israel, the Financial Times reported, quoting people with direct knowledge of his whereabouts. Ma, 58, has largely disappeared from public view since he criticised the Chinese regulators in 2020, accusing the state-run banks of having a pawnshop mentality and calling for bold new players that can extend credit to the collateral poor. Since then, both the companies he founded -- Ant and e-commerce group Alibaba -- have faced a series of regulatory obstacles. Chinese regulators called off Ant's blockbuster USD 37 billion initial public offering and fined
The case increase, which has escalated from under 100 infections a day a fortnight ago, is leading to stepped-up controls in Beijing, a city of 22 million
Floor price set at Rs 555, 8% discount to last close
The biggest shareholders in One97 Communications Ltd., Paytm's parent company, are Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and its fintech affiliate Ant Group Co., as well as Japan's SoftBank Group Corp
The respective accounting firms of Alibaba, JD.com and Yum China - PwC, Deloitte and KPMG - have also been notified of the inspection
SoftBank Group shares rose 2.6% in Tokyo trading, while the benchmark Topix was flat
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, on Thursday beat market expectations for revenue in the quarter ending late June, even though growth was flat for the first time ever due to the impact of COVID-19 lockdown.
Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba said on Monday that it wants to keep its shares listed in both New York and Hong Kong, days after US regulators included it in a list of companies that may be delisted
Ant, an affiliate of Alibaba, has been subjected to a sweeping restructuring by China, whose initial public offering of $37 billion, was derailed by the country's regulators in late 2020
Shares of the e-commerce giant shot up as much as 7% earlier after a Bloomberg News report that China's financial regulators have established a team to assess the fintech giant's share sale plans.
Despite China aiming to rein in domestic Internet giants, Alibaba is still the best-paying tech company in the country at an average monthly salary of $5,000, followed by ByteDance and Tencent Holdings that offer average monthly wages of $4,900 and $4,600, respectively.
The company, however, said it would not issue a forecast for the new fiscal year, citing pandemic-related risks and uncertainties
Move represents one of the largest shareholder-reward programmes
Alibaba Group increased a share buyback to $25 billion from $15 billion to prop up a stock price that has fallen by more than half since Communist Party tightened control over tech industries