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Alibaba(NYSE:BABA) is currently China's largest e-commerce, cloud, and digital advertising company, but the tech giant had humble beginnings. Jack Ma, who started his career as an English teacher, founded the company with a team of 17 friends in his Hangzhou …

Honorees include Jack Ma, Azim Premji and Suh Kyung-baeSINGAPORE (December 3, 2019) Forbes Asia today announced its annual Heroes of Philanthropy list, highlighting 30 outstanding altruists in the Asia-Pacific region. The list includes billionaires, entrepren…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin People say I am one of the richest people in China, but I dont think it is my money, says Jack Ma. It is money that people have entrusted to you, and you want to spend it …

Following is a transcript of a video. Narrator: Jack Ma is China's richest man, with an estimated worth of $38 billion. The 55-year-old is the cofounder of the e-commerce giant Alibaba. It's China's biggest digital marketplace, responsible for an estimated 8…

For Chinas rumbling, unpredictable tech sector, this year brought a torrent of consequential news, ranging from the quirky to the politically heavy, all brought to you on melatonin-sapping screens that were probably made in China. In case you missed them, RAD…

While we were enjoying our Thanksgiving holiday, folks in Hong Kong were celebrating too. But the jubilation there was the result of several seemingly disparate events.  What went down in Hong Kong this week is pretty amazing and worth digging into, as it mi…

Fans with smartphones at an outdoor concert. Ericsson With 5G networks expected to carry almost half of the worlds mobile data traffic by 2025, the Middle East and Africa is expected to have the highest growth rate in the next six years, according to resear…

Alibaba Group Holding, returning to Hong Kong's stock market this week after a five-year wait, considers the city a cornerstone of its strategy to globalise and prosper across three centuries, according to its chairman. This week's successful US$13 billion i…

ANYONE WHO is cursed with a rational mind should ponder Alibabas faith in eight, the luckiest single digit in China. On November 26th Chinas e-commerce juggernaut sold HK$88bn ($11.2bn) of secondary shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock symbo…

Aiming to strengthen its foothold in the region's growing mobile internet markets, Jack Ma's Ant Financial Services plans to raise close to $1 billion in funding for India and Southeast Asia-based startups, according to a report in Bloomberg. The Alibaba-aff…