Alibaba has launched a new $15bn fund – what’s it going to be spending all that money on?
Chinese technology firm Alibaba has announced today that it is launching a $15bn drive to build overseas research hubs. The…
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Smile for your supper: Alibaba heralds in grinning payments at KFC
There’s something about KFC in China which makes top tech brands want to partner with it. Earlier this year, Baidu…
China’s Alibaba unveils its own smart speaker
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has launched its voice-controlled smart speaker. Competing with the likes of Apple's Siri and Amazon's Echo,…
WeChat Pay has shown Facebook payments could actually work
In China, the mobile payment market is no longer monopolised by Alipay as competition from WeChat has dented its market…
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Chinese tech giant Alibaba is beefing up its stake in India’s Paytm
India and China are economic rivals in Asia. By 2030, China and India, respectively, are expected to be the first…
This Chinese businessman’s net worth jumped by over $2bn in one day
Despite his humble beginnings, Wang Wei, the 46-year-old owner of SF Express, became the country's third richest man on Tuesday, after…
Can Alipay reach 2bn customers within 10 years?
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, the chief executive of Ant Financial, Eric Jing, announced that the company has ambitions to…
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Alibaba’s everything-to-everyone model couldn’t work in the West
Think Amazon combined with eBay combined with PayPal combined with Twitter – add to that a bank and wealth manager…