The Latest Breaking News from BABA

On Friday, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) called upon three of the country’s leading food delivery platforms: Alibaba Group’s (NYSE:BABA) Ele.me, Meituan (OTC:MPNGY), and JD.com (NASDAQ:JD). The regulator urged these companies to adopt more “rational” competitive practices amidst an escalating price war within the sector.

Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) escalated China’s instant delivery price war by launching a massive 50 billion Chinese yuan subsidy program for consumers and merchants on its Taobao Shangou platform, intensifying an already cutthroat battle for market share against JD.com (NASDAQ:JD) and Meituan (OTC:MPNGY).

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang, on his third visit to China this year, praised the country’s open-source AI innovation during a fireside chat with Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) Cloud founder Wang Jian at the China International Supply Chain Expo on Thursday.

Chinese e-commerce juggernaut Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA) is intensifying its efforts in China’s fiercely competitive instant delivery market by launching a new 100-day Super Saturdays campaign under its Taobao Shangou brand.

The Nasdaq 100 reached new record highs on Tuesday, surpassing the 23,000 mark, driven by a rally in chipmakers such as Nvidia. Investors were optimistic about Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices resuming certain chip sales to China.

U.S.-listed Chinese stocks, including tech giants Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA), PDD Holdings (NASDAQ:PDD), JD.com (NASDAQ:JD), and Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), experienced significant gains on Tuesday.

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Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA) matched its record of 80 million on-demand deliveries on Saturday, intensifying its competition with Meituan (OTC:MPNGF) (OTC:MPNGY) and JD.com (NASDAQ:JD) in China’s high-stakes quick-delivery market.

With accelerating momentum in AI and cloud computing, and strong performance across its core and international commerce platforms, Alibaba is well-positioned to deliver strong growth.

China’s cloud infrastructure spending surged by 16% year-over-year to $11.6 billion in the first quarter of 2025, primarily fueled by the accelerating adoption of enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) nationwide.

Alibaba has made a new move to expand its data center presence in the Asian region, signaling new potential upside to be had in the coming months.