Jack Ma Time line
(Infographic)
Jack Ma Interview
(explains how and why he set up, and how he has
become so successful)
Wall Street Journal - Alibaba Summary
• Alibaba has always acted as a middleman, connecting buyers and sellers and facilitating
transactions between them. This means less revenue, but more profit (net profit margin is
currently 44%).
• To increase revenue from advertising, it blocks Chinese search engines searching inside two
of its most popular web stores, meaning customers have to start their search within the
store, where they see the advertising from Alibaba businesses.
• Yahoo have a 24% share
Taobao
• Alibaba's biggest website, has 760 million product listings from seven million sellers.
• Merchants don't pay to sell products on Taobao. Instead, they pay Alibaba for advertising and
other services to allow them to stand out from the crowd.
Tmall
• Another shopping site run by Alibaba, is designed for bigger merchants, including well-known
brands such as Nike and Apple. Has about 70,000 merchants, charges each seller a deposit
and an annual fee, as well as a commission on each transaction.
Company overview
Recent Articles
• Business Week - China's turf
war
• BBC Tencent & Alibaba fight
for dominance
• South China Morning Post The tale of two leaders
Full Infographic
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Last year Alibaba invested $585.8 million for a 18% stake in Sina Weibo (China’s
Twitter) Bloomberg article
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Shares in Chinese media firm ChinaVision soared over 250% after Alibaba
announced it paid $804m (£484m) for a controlling stake in the company. (BBC
article)
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Alibaba to launch Gaming Platform
China’s mobile games market is booming, up almost 247 percent from a year ago.
The number of mobile gamers in China has also soared, up 248 percent to 310
million, representing 63 percent of the total online gamer base.
China Spectator - Alibaba's Yuebao gives banks a rude awakening
1. Yuebao has more than 81 million customers
2. 18 million more than the combined number of retail investors on China’s Shanghai and
Shenzhen stock exchanges.
3. Within eight months, it has managed to pull in $90 billion of deposits from investors
4. At the moment, Yuebao offers a 6.114 per cent annualised return, whilst the big four Chinese
commercial banks only offers 3.25 per cent yield for a one year term deposit.
5. Yuebao has expanded 10,000 times in less than a year which works out to be something like
3 million yuan per minute.
BusinessInsider - Alibaba to open US online
store 11 Main
This launch also follows Alibaba's $15 million investment in the vintage e-commerce
site 1stdibs and its $200 million investment in Shoprunner, another U.S. company.
Mission
To make it easy to do business anywhere
Vision
To become the first platform of choice for sharing data
To be an enterprise that has the happiest employees
To last at least 102 years
Alibaba's potential $15bn IPO - The Guardian
Article
"This will make us a more global company and enhance the company's transparency, as well as
allow the company to continue to pursue our long-term vision and ideals.“
Jack Ma
Full
Infographic