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Jack Ma's Alibaba Fintech To Grab Majority Ownership Of This Payments Platform

Jack Ma founded Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) fintech affiliate, Ant Group, is set to become the majority investor in Singapore-based payments platform 2C2P as part of a partnership, Reuters reports. The deal will integrate Ant's Alipay+ payment service with 2C2P's platform used by merchants in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas.…

Why Alibaba, Tech Peers Are Deep In The Red In Hong Kong Trading Today

Why Alibaba, Tech Peers Are Deep In The Red In Hong Kong Trading Today

Shares of U.S.-listed Chinese tech firms Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA), Tencent Holdings (OTC: TCEHY), and Baidu Inc (NASDAQ: BID

Alibaba Tech VP Mocks China's Covid Policies; Clarifies Not Resigning

Alibaba Tech VP Mocks China's Covid Policies; Clarifies Not Resigning

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's (NYSE:BABA) VP of technology, Jia Yangqing, clarified that he did not resign from the company and had traveled from Shanghai to the U.S. to see a doctor, Global Times reports. Jia traveled from Shanghai to California, the U.S., in the middle of the night because of the situation…

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Why Alibaba Shares Are Falling

Shares of Chinese companies, including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd - ADR (NYSE: BABA), are trading lower as investors assess the economic impact of a surge in COVID cases in China.

Alibaba Undergoes Aggressive Restructuring At Its Cloud Unit

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) owned Alibaba Cloud initiated a new round of organizational restructuring, the Pandaily reports. Alibaba Cloud China President Ren Geng resigned for undisclosed reasons. Geng looked to leave as early as 2021 but stayed back. Also Read: Alibaba Looks To Slash Workforce By 30% After Its MMC Division Decides…

Microsoft Allegedly Exploited Its Influence To Gain Edge Over Amazon, Google, Alibaba: Bloomberg

Some Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) customers and rivals alleged that Microsoft repeatedly used its leverage over one market to hinder competition in another, Bloomberg reports. Microsoft’s practices cut across cloud computing, where it played catch-up, and productivity software, where it dominated. The Windows operating system held a 96% share of the personal-computer market in 2021,…

Here's Why UBS Is Cautious On Microsoft, Alibaba

UBS painted a cautious picture of Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA).

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Alibaba's Jack Ma Severes Ties With Co-founded Lifestyle Firm

Alibaba's Jack Ma Severes Ties With Co-founded Lifestyle Firm

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) founder Jack Ma Yun and movie star Jet Li have quit Taiji Zen International lifestyle firm, the Global Times reports. Li stepped down as President and GM of Taiji, while Ma led Hangzhou Kunbao Investment Consultancy Co no longer remained a shareholder of the company. Taiji’s official…

HSBC Slashes Price Targets On Alibaba, Baidu Due to China's Covid Surge, Regulatory Crackdown

HSBC Slashes Price Targets On Alibaba, Baidu Due to China's Covid Surge, Regulatory Crackdown

HSBC analyst Charlene Liu cut the price target on Baidu Inc (NASDAQ:BIDU) to $180 from $195 (31.3% upside) and kept a Buy rating on the shares. The analyst now assumes a worse impact from COVID-19 on the company's core ad and cloud businesses and margins, seeing a recovery only in Q4. Liu reduced the price…

China Cracks Down Upon Tencent, Other Tech Giants Over Algo Abuse; Questions Alibaba, Others To Address Job Cuts

China Cracks Down Upon Tencent, Other Tech Giants Over Algo Abuse; Questions Alibaba, Others To Address Job Cuts

China looks to rein in the potential abuse of algorithms by internet giants from ByteDance Ltd to Tencent Holdings Ltd (OTC: TCEHY), Bloomberg reports. The Cyberspace Administration of China looks to inspect how social media platforms serve up ads and content to hook users, especially the large-scale websites, platforms, and products with significant influence.…

Yet Another Analyst Slashed Alibaba's Price Target, Outlook Following China's Covid Outbreak

Yet Another Analyst Slashed Alibaba's Price Target, Outlook Following China's Covid Outbreak

Benchmark analyst Fawne Jiang reduced the price target on Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) to $220 from $235 (104.3% upside) and kept a Buy rating on the shares. Jiang cut her fiscal Q4 revenue forecasts in China commerce direct sales to reflect the disruption of offline businesses due to COVID lockdowns. Jiang lowered International Retail…

Why Alibaba, Nio And Pinduoduo Shares Are Falling Today

Why Alibaba, Nio And Pinduoduo Shares Are Falling Today

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA), NIO Inc (NYSE: NIO) and Pinduoduo Inc (NASDAQ: PDD) shares are trading lower Thursday

This Major Alibaba Investor Has Tripled Stock Buyback To $1.1B

This Major Alibaba Investor Has Tripled Stock Buyback To $1.1B

SoftBank Group Corp (OTC:SFTBY) (OTC:SFTBF) bought ¥141.4 billion ($1.1 billion) worth of shares in March, versus ¥46.2 billion of shares in February, more than tripling the size of its share buybacks. The buyback, coupled with a 7.6% jump in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's (NYSE:BABA) shares, helped SoftBank cap a monthly stock-price gain of 8.5%, a…

Citi Slashes Alibaba's Price Target By 12% As COVID Resurgence Looks To Dampen Growth

Citi Slashes Alibaba's Price Target By 12% As COVID Resurgence Looks To Dampen Growth

Citi analyst Alicia Yap lowered the price target on Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) to $177 from $200 (59.5% upside) and kept a Buy rating on the shares. Amid the widening spread of COVID cases and city lockdowns, the analyst thinks overall economic activities in China have been negatively affected, which has drained Alibaba's profit…

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Jack Ma, Warren Buffett Backed Paytm Looks To Breakeven Soon: Bloomberg

Paytm, backed by SoftBank Group Corp (OTC:SFTBY) (OTC:SFTBF) and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's (NYSE:BABA) fintech affiliate Ant Group, looks to break even on an operating basis over the next year-and-a-half, Bloomberg reports. The Indian digital payments pioneer doubled its gross merchandise value to $34.3 billion in the March quarter. Paytm looks to become profitable in…

Why Alibaba, Baidu And Nio Shares Are Trading Lower

Shares of several Chinese stocks including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA), Baidu Inc (NASDAQ: BIDU) and Nio Inc (NYSE: NI

Why Alibaba, Nio And Pinduoduo Shares Are Trading Higher Today

Shares of several Chinese stocks, including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA), NIO Inc (NYSE: NIO) and Pinduoduo Inc (NASDAQ:

SoftBank Goes Defensive On Investments Following Tech Meltdown

SoftBank Group Corp (OTC:SFTBY) (OTC:SFTBF) founder Masayoshi Son looked to slow down investments to raise cash amid the tech stock meltdown and China's regulatory crackdown the Financial Times reports. Rising interest rates and the Ukraine crisis have ravaged its holdings. SoftBank also suffered due to considerable holding in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) and DiDi…

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China Tech's Dwindling Fortunes Fuel More Alibaba Stake Selloff Speculations By SoftBank

The dwindling fortunes of the Chinese tech shares have prompted concerns over Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) stake selloff by SoftBank Group Corp (OTC:SFTBY) (OTC:SFTBF), the Wall Street Journal reports. SoftBank's single most significant investment in the e-commerce giant was hit hard by the domestic crackdown. The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index of U.S.-listed Chinese stocks…

Russian Invasion of Ukraine Proves To Be Another Headache For Alibaba: WSJ

The Western sanctions on Russia became a bone of contention for Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA), as Russia proved to be a bright spot for its AliExpress,

Here's Why Alibaba And Bilibili Are Moving

Shares of Chinese companies, including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd - ADR (NYSE: BABA) and Bilibili Inc - ADR (NASDAQ: BILI) are trading higher.

Here's Why Alibaba, Tencent Look To Tighten NFT Norms

Citizens have to register with their real name to purchase NFTs and can only via Chinese Yuan. Chinese internet giants Tencent Holdings Ltd (OTC:TCEHY) and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) tightened specific rules on their respective NFT marketplaces to avoid further regulatory repercussions, CoinGape reports. Alibaba’s platform Jingtan looked to report users using bots or…

Tencent Clocks 8% Revenue Growth In Q4; Looks To Focus On Core Businesses

Tencent Holdings Ltd (OTC:TCEHY) reported fourth-quarter FY21 revenue growth of 8% year-on-year to 144.2 billion yuan ($22.6 billion). Revenues from VAS increased by 7% Y/Y to 71.9 billion yuan, and Online Advertising decreased by 13% Y/Y to 21.5 billion yuan. Revenues from FinTech and Business Services increased by 25% Y/Y to 48 billion…

Here's How Alibaba's Buyback Boost Could Win Back Investors In China's Internet Sector

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Here's Why Alibaba's Stock Didn't Get a Boost Despite Big Share Buyback: Bloomberg

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) shares traded 60% below the 2021 peak despite a $9 billion share buyback boost, Bloomberg reports. The boost marked the third increase since China's domestic tech crackdown started in late 2020. After the buyback announcement, Alibaba's shares jumped up to 9.8% to HK$108.80 in Hong Kong, trailing the February…

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