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Jack Ma

Jack Ma Yun, born in 1964, is a famous Chinese Internet entrepreneur and founder of Alibaba, Taobao and Alipay, three of China's leading e-commerce firms.

Born

10 Sep 1964

Industry

Technology, Business

Job Title

Businessman

last updated:

7 October, 2024

Alibaba Group Holding founder Jack Ma addresses a group of Chinese rural teachers online. Photo: Jack Ma Foundation

Artificial intelligence

AI to reshape the world, Alibaba founder Jack Ma tells Chinese rural teachers

Ma addressed a group of educators to mark the 10th anniversary of his eponymous foundation’s Rural Teachers Initiative.

9 Jan 2025 - 6:30PMvideocam

Chinese fintech giant Ant denies imminent restart of IPO process

19 Dec 2024 - 8:31PM

Alibaba to lose US$1.3 billion on Intime sale in retreat from offline retail

17 Dec 2024 - 5:30PM

Jack Ma makes rare speech at Ant Group’s 20th anniversary

The Chinese entrepreneur addresses the fintech giant for the first time since it withdrew its mega IPO in 2020.

9 Dec 2024 - 10:05PM

Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba Group Holding and Ant Group. Photo: Handout

Jack Ma returns to Alibaba campus in sign of support

The founder’s visit is his first known trip to his hometown since March 2023.

13 Jan 2025 - 2:33PM

Alibaba to sell bonds to repay debt, fund buy-back amid low rates

The Chinese e-commerce leader is issuing bonds denominated in US-dollar and yuan to help repay debt and fund stock repurchases.

18 Nov 2024 - 4:00PM

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China stock market

Hurun Rich List: China’s wealthiest lose money due to economy and market slides

The collective wealth of China’s wealthiest people slumped 10 per cent from a year earlier to US$2.97 trillion.

29 Oct 2024 - 5:47PM

Zhang Yiming, the founder and CEO of ByteDance. Photo: AFP

Alibaba looks on course for a turnaround amid investor frenzy for Chinese stocks

The renewed positive market sentiment for Alibaba reflects its resilience after struggling in recent years.

27 Sep 2024 - 9:00PM

Jack Ma calls on Alibaba to remain steadfast, ‘believe in the future’

To mark the 25th anniversary of Alibaba’s founding, Ma called on all employees to overcome competitive pressure, despite various challenges.

11 Sep 2024 - 9:05AMvideocam

Fintech giant Ant Group spins off database firm as Alibaba affiliates take stake

A shareholder restructuring for OceanBase, which develops the database tech behind Alipay, gives 35 companies a stake, paving the way to a possible public listing

3 Jul 2024 - 11:12PM

Fintech giant Ant Group is spinning off the subsidiary responsible for the database behind Alipay. Photo: Bloomberg

Alibaba e-commerce unit’s latest executive reshuffle sees young leaders take over

The executive reshuffle at Taobao and Tmall Group shows how Alibaba is adhering to calls made by company co-founder Jack Ma to ‘give more power’ to young people.

31 May 2024 - 7:00AM

The executive reshuffle at Taobao and Tmall Group shows how Alibaba Group Holding is adhering to calls made by company co-founder Jack Ma to “give more power” to young people. Photos; Shutterstock

Alibaba opens new global headquarters in China on annual family day

The sprawling campus, Alibaba’s third in Hangzhou’s Xixi area, is a sign of the e-commerce giant’s commitment to its home city.

10 May 2024 - 9:00PM

Alibaba reorients business, rejigs overhaul after catalogue of mistakes

Alibaba scales back an ambitious business overhaul plan and bids farewell to a turbulent year, as its founders call on employees to embrace changes.

17 Apr 2024 - 5:27PM

Jack Ma backs Alibaba’s reforms as he steps into ‘mistakes’ hubbub

There is nothing to fear from missteps because nobody is error-free, Ma wrote, after his co-founder Joe Tsai touched on Alibaba’s mistakes in a podcast interview, generating a frenzy on China’s social media.

11 Apr 2024 - 4:26PMvideocam

Alibaba Group co-founder and executive chairman Jack Ma at the Vivatech startups and innovation fair in Paris, France, on May 16, 2019 Photo: EPA-EFE

Ant Group expands Alipay+ to serve visa-free, Lunar New Year travellers

The move comes as China has waived visa requirements for travellers from several countries, while Chinese tourists are expected to head abroad during Lunar New Year.

30 Jan 2024 - 3:31PM

Alipay+ is designed to help small businesses accept payments from travellers using their own local electronic wallets. Photo: Reuters

Japan’s SoftBank concludes run as Alibaba’s biggest shareholder

SoftBank expects to book US$8.5 billion, about 425 times the value of its initial Alibaba investment, for its 2024 financial year after divesting more than 500 million shares in the e-commerce giant.

27 Jan 2024 - 4:26PM

Exclusive | Jack Ma, Joe Tsai replace SoftBank as Alibaba’s largest shareholders

The combined stakes of the two co-founders eclipsed SoftBank Group, which has reduced its shares in Alibaba through a series of forward contracts.

24 Jan 2024 - 6:08PM

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Alibaba founder Jack Ma praises rural teachers for their ‘belief in the future’

Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma has met with rural teachers in the run up to the Chinese Lunar New Year for nine years in a row.

19 Jan 2024 - 9:00PM

Jack Ma speaking with teachers in mainland China’s rural schools. Photo: Jack Ma Foundation

End of Jack Ma’s reign at Ant Group approved by central bank

The People’s Bank of China announced on Saturday that Alipay.com Co has no controller, paving the way for owner Ant Group’s IPO.

31 Dec 2023 - 6:33PMvideocam

JD.com, Alibaba’s Taobao push ‘refund only’ policy to rival Pinduoduo’s strategy

The two e-commerce giants are taking a leaf out of the playbook of budget online retailer Pinduoduo, which has had that policy in place since 2021.

28 Dec 2023 - 10:30PM

Alibaba promotes millennials to key e-commerce leadership roles

Alibaba has promoted a younger cohort to lead key Taobao and Tmall operations after the conglomerate’s CEO Eddie Wu took direct control of the e-commerce unit.

22 Dec 2023 - 9:00PMvideocam

Signage at Alibaba’s office in Beijing on August 10, 2021. Photo: AP

Taobao to be more tech focused as Alibaba CEO takes over, analysts say

Alibaba’s Taobao and cloud units will directly answer to the conglomerate’s CEO, Eddie Wu, as the tech giant seeks to take on budget-focused PDD amid low consumer spending.

22 Dec 2023 - 7:00AMvideocam

With Taobao now directly under Alibaba’s CEO, along with the company’s cloud unit, analysts see the conglomerate’s e-commerce operations becoming more tech-focused. Photo: Shutterstock

Jack Ma-backed firm 1.8 Meters starts online sales via Alibaba’s Freshippo and Tmall

The online marketing drive by start-up 1.8 Meters marks another step in Alibaba founder Jack Ma’s efforts to branch out into agriculture and sustainable food production.

19 Dec 2023 - 8:32PM

JD.com founder warns staff not to ‘lie flat’, as rival PDD shines

‘So many issues have emerged, certainly because I mismanaged,’ Richard Liu wrote, as the growth pace of JD.com and competitor Alibaba falls behind budget retailer PDD.

11 Dec 2023 - 7:50PM

Alibaba pushes new AI tool to help wholesale merchants manage overseas clients

The AI tool is expected to help merchants on Alibaba.com, the e-commerce giant’s international business-to-business wholesale marketplace, automate their client-facing operations to entice more customers overseas.

30 Nov 2023 - 8:00PM

Alibaba.com, the international business-to-business wholesale platform of Alibaba Group Holding, has more than 200,000 merchants offering made-in-China products to markets around the world. Photo: Shutterstock

Jack Ma praises rival PDD in rare memo calling on Alibaba staff to change

‘I firmly believe that Alibaba will change and adapt. All great companies are born in winter,’ the founder said.

29 Nov 2023 - 2:44PM

Jack Ma, founder and former chairman of Chinese internet giant Alibaba. Photo: Reuters

Alibaba’s Jack Ma has a new company selling pre-packaged food

‘Hangzhou Ma’s Kitchen Food’ has been set up in Alibaba’s home city amid a post-pandemic shift in eating habits, adding to Ma’s agriculture-focused endeavours.

26 Nov 2023 - 11:00AMvideocam

Alibaba reassures on Jack Ma share sales plan and quashes lay-off rumours

Chief people officer Jane Jiang said in an internal letter rumours of 25,000 lay-offs are false and that the matter has been reported to the police.

23 Nov 2023 - 2:19PM

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