The e-commerce company's revenue increased to USD2.74 billion in the quarter ended September 30, 2014, up nearly 54% year on year. Mobile revenue increased by 1,020.2% year on year to USD606 million in the quarter ended September 30, 2014. China retail marketplaces had 307 million annual active buyers in the twelve months ended September 30, 2014, compared to 279 million in the twelve months ...
The leaders of Facebook and Apple were in China this past week on separate missions with the same goal: gain better transparency and more access to the Chinese market. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg was in Beijing for an event at a local university, and Apple's Tim Cook met with Chinese Vice Premier Ma Kai to review security concerns. When Facebook's multi-billion-dollar initial public ...
Media have been opining and hyping Alibaba's USD21.8 billion IPO impact on the global Internet ecosystem and how the company plans to invest its new wealth. Unlike most IPOs, many early investors in Alibaba will have no lock-up period and they can sell their shares today. Though CEO Jack Ma pledged that customers are more important than investors to Alibaba's growth, this uncommon nod towards ...
Alibaba Group Holdings plans to price one of the largest initial public offerings ever this Thursday (September 18th, 2014) on the New York Stock Exchange. The IPO could raise over $25 billion dollars for Alibaba, its investors and founders. Alibaba is at its very essence a Chinese company, run by a Chinese management team, with Chinese customers, and the overwhelming majority of its revenue coming from business in China. To really understand the prospects of Alibaba, understanding the nuances ...
My money is on Alibaba, the massive Chinese company that will soon conduct a New York IPO.* Here’s why. Amazon and Alibaba, the world’s largest e-commerce companies, are gearing up for the next big competition: cross-border e-commerce. Both companies have unique advantages in the market, and both are rushing to lock in an advantage in shipping goods from abroad into China, now the world’s largest e-commerce market. In the last few weeks, Amazon.com Inc announced that ...