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“Jack Ma is an Icon for China’s Private Sector”

June 27, 2016 By Liu Sha

With humble beginnings in Hangzhou, Jack Ma went on to create an e-commerce titan that has grabbed the attention of China and the world. Today Jack Ma and Alibaba’s story has become the stuff that legends are made of. Duncan Clark has witnessed firsthand Jack Ma’s dizzying rise in China’s e-commerce firmament. A former investment banker at Morgan Stanley, Clark first got to know Jack Ma in 1999 when he met him in the small Hangzhou apartment where Ma and his friends famously founded Alibaba. In this interview, Clark, also the author of Alibaba, the House that Jack Ma Built, talks about Alibaba’s incredible story and its impact on China.

Filed Under: All Articles, Consumers, eCommerce, Retail, Technology Tagged With: Alibaba, eCommerce, Jack Ma, Technology

How Alibaba Pulled Off Its Singles Day Shopping Fest

November 18, 2015 By Li Hui

This year Alibaba broke all records on Singles Day with sales of $14.3 billion. Singles Day, or China’s Black Friday, was first invented by Alibaba in 2009. The idea was to create an annual sales event with crazy discounts supposedly for those who are single. (The fact that everyone, irrespective of their romantic status, jumped in and shopped is a different matter altogether.) This year a whopping 95 million users joined the cyber shopping fest. In other words, approximately almost one out of eight people in the world clicked the “buy” button on Alibaba’s marketplaces. What did it take to pull this off?

Filed Under: Digital Economy, eCommerce, Infographics Tagged With: Alibaba, Alipay, eCommerce, Infographics, Jack Ma, Tmall

The New Empire Builders: China’s Digital Conglomerates

September 22, 2015 By Colin Shek

With companies like Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent branching out into new areas, China is witnessing the rise of a new breed of digital conglomerates.

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Know China, Mergers and Acquisitions, Retail, Winning in China Tagged With: Alibaba, Baidu, eCommerce, Internet Companies, Jack Ma, Slider, Tencent

Digital Monopolies: Too Many Big Fish in the Sea

July 22, 2015 By Xinlei Chen

The government should step in and regulate digital monopolies because at the end of the day, healthy competition benefits all.

Filed Under: All Articles, Digital Economy, ExpertSpeak, Mergers and Acquisitions, Opinion, Technology, Winning in China Tagged With: Antimonopoly, Competition, Google, Internet Companies, Jack Ma, Slider, Taobao, Tencent, Youku

“Go to China”: Jack Ma to American Small Businesses

June 10, 2015 By Major Tian

During his whistle-stop trip to the US, Alibaba founder and Executive Chairman Jack Ma is busy courting small businesses

Filed Under: All Articles, Connections, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Globalization, Videos Tagged With: Alibaba, Amazon China, Globalization, Jack Ma, JD.com, Slider, Taobao, Tmall

The State of Philanthropy in China

May 18, 2015 By Chris Russell (Additional reporting by Milo Zhang)

Philanthropy in China doesn’t exactly have a good track record. What are the chances that the country will turn it around?

Filed Under: All Articles, Know China, Social Good, Society Tagged With: Bill Gates, Charities, Education, Environment, Healthcare, Jack Ma, Philanthropy, Slider

Alibaba Results Surprise Wall Street

May 8, 2015 By CKGSB Knowledge

By posting a 45% jump in revenues, the Alibaba results have defied expectations. A quick look at the big numbers.

Filed Under: All Articles, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Infographics, Know China, Retail Tagged With: Alibaba, eCommerce, Infographics, Jack Ma, Slider, Taobao, Tmall

Chinese E-commerce Companies Head to the Countryside

April 22, 2015 By Nicole Sy

Chinese e-commerce companies like Alibaba and JD.com are finding a lucrative opportunity in rural areas. But what kind of strategies will work there?

Filed Under: All Articles, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Know China, Logistics, Retail Tagged With: Alibaba, Jack Ma, JD.com, Logistics, Retail, rural life, Slider, Urbanization

China Roundup: Why Dalian Wanda’s Wang Jianlin is not the richest man in China

December 24, 2014 By Major Tian

This week, CEO Wang Jianlin missed the opportunity to become the richest man in China when the much awaited Dalian Wanda IPO turned out to be a damp squib and Xiaomi was valued at $45 billion, way higher than Uber.

Filed Under: All Articles, China Round-up, Digital Economy, Finance, Know China, Real Estate, Stock Exchange, Technology Tagged With: CSRC, IPO, Jack Ma, Property, Slider, Smartphone, Technology, Uber, Wanda, Xiaomi

Soccer in China: A World Apart

November 10, 2014 By Colleen Howe

People are taking to soccer in China, but is it just a passing fad or a phenomena that’s here to stay?

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Culture, Know China, Sports Tagged With: Alibaba, Corruption, Evergrand, Football in China, Germany, Government, Hot Issues in China, Jack Ma, Nike, Slider, World Cup

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