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Tech in Asia recently suggested that China’s biggest e-commerce sales/discounts day could beat America’s Cyber Monday in value -- and that’s precisely what happened during yesterday’s “Double Eleven” online shopfest.Indeed, two of China’s biggest sites, Tmall and Taobao (both owned by Alibaba Group), beat out all US e-tailers by ...

You can't really accuse China's tech and online giants of being short on ambition. Not when a company like Alibaba, already likely to pass Amazon and eBay in sales this year, says it wants to beat Android in China.At the company's annual Alifest conference over the weekend it revealed ...

Google, is "mulling" a bid for its search rival, Yahoo! the Wall Street Journal reports.This the latest news to surface from the "who's looking to buy Yahoo!" rumour mill.According to people who are familiar with the matter but declined to be named, Google has entered into discussions with a ...

Alibaba Group Chairman Jack Ma has delivered an ultimatum to Yahoo!. The head of the Chinese online retail giant says he expects an answer from once-dominant US tech firm within weeks to his offer to buy all or part of it. Delays, he added, were hurting both firms.The Chinese ...

Chinese internet giant Alibaba says that it will delay a fee hike for some sellers on its online shopping site after a storm of protest over the planned rise.The group also announced that it will invest 1.8-billion yuan (US$284-million) in its Taobao Mall site. This as the firm looks ...

Jack Ma, CEO of Chinese web giant Alibaba is reportedly “interested” in buying Yahoo! and claims to have been approached by private equity groups about doing a deal.According to the Wall Street Journal, Ma made the comments during a recent “China 2.0” event held at Stanford University.It wasn't clear, ...

Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba was recently questioned regarding the future of Yahoo's stake in his firm. He gave no insight as to what may happen down the line. One point that he is adamant about is that Alibaba was in no way responsible for the very recent dismissal of ...

US Internet firm Yahoo! and Japan's SoftBank have announced that they have reached an agreement with their Chinese partners at Alibaba Group in a dispute over online payments platform Alipay.Alibaba Group -- which is 43 percent owned by Yahoo! -- "will continue to participate in Alipay's future financial performance, including ...

Police have arrested 36 people in southeast China following an investigation into fraud on e-commerce site Alibaba.com and other websites that duped buyers out of more than US$6 million.Alizila.com, Alibaba's corporate news website, reported earlier this week the suspects were detained in Fujian province's Putian city in April. John Spelich, ...

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba says it has launched a service to help Japanese manufacturers crack the fast-growing Chinese market.The Tokyo-based arm of Alibaba.com said the new service ˜ which uses Taobao, China's largest retail website — would help Japanese consumer goods makers cut through red tape."High-quality Japanese products are ...