On March 27th, Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba Group, returned to China. Recently, some netizens witnessed Jack Ma in Wenyi Road Tunnel, Hangzhou. In the video, Jack Ma rides in a Toyota Kauste and occasionally talks with people around him.
Yangqing Jia, Vice President (VP) of Chinese internet giant Alibaba, has stirred up some discussion with his departure from the company and intention to strike out on his own.
Following a series of personnel changes in 2022, Alibaba's DAMO Academy has now established three laboratories dedicated to the development of large language models.
At the end of last month, Alibaba's international digital economy training program Global Digital Talent brought together representatives of its partner educational institutions worldwide in its first hybrid event in over three years, reaffirming its commitment to driving digital economy education globally.
Over the past year, Fliggy, a leading online travel service platform under Alibaba Group, has launched a program to train talents for rural tourism with the Alibaba Foundation. This initiative has successfully trained approximately 1,000 female talents to date.
Last year, Qi Junyuan, the founder of collaboration and project management tool Teambition, joined ByteDance's office software platform Feishu and now has begun to take charge of the Japanese market for the company.
Alibaba Group donated a batch of cloud computers and cloud computing resources to the China Education Development Foundation. The computers are to be installed in 87 rural primary schools, helping 35,000 rural children to explore advanced technology.
Xin Lijun, CEO of e-commerce giant JD.com's retail arm, on March 7 explained some of the details regarding the the recent discounts across the platform to tap new users.
Alibaba's workplace communication platform DingTalk has completed the wholly-owned acquisition of wolai, a collaborative work tool developer. Once the acquisition is completed, wolai's production and research team will be made into regular employees of DingTalk.
Chen Junbo, the former head of algorithm at the Alibaba-backed DAMO Academy, has left his post to start a new business in the outdoor cleaning robots field.
Alibaba's management team announced five strategic focal areas for its e-commerce platform Taobao this year. These areas cover livestreaming, private domain traffic (turning casual users into dedicated ones), content, local retailers, and pricing power.
Taobao Live starts this year’s public-welfare livestreaming this week to help sell agriculture products from China’s rural areas. The livestreaming attracted over 16 leading livestreamers including the top influencer Li Jiaqi.
Social media users recently spotted Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, in a hotel in Melbourne, Australia. Fans snapped a photo of him browsing his phone and drinking Coke.
As the discussion caused by artificial intelligence chat robot ChatGPT continues to heat up, the science and technology circle is welcoming the new buzz. Many Chinese tech giants have made great efforts to seize the opportunity to create the first "Chinese version of ChatGPT".
On February 11, data from the Bombay Stock Exchange showed that Alibaba.com Singapore E-Commerce has sold its remaining stake in Indian digital payments firm Paytm for about 13.78 billion rupees ($167.14 million) through a block deal.
The Alibaba HK Entrepreneurs Fund (AEF), which aims to support young people and entrepreneurs in Hong Kong, has sponsored the local charity SEED Foundation, to provide middle school students with science and technology knowledge and cultivate their interest in creating as early as possible.
Alibaba Group’s Chief Marketing Officer Chris Tung delivered a keynote speech to introduce the company’s carbon reduction action model and call on more enterprises to jointly promote low-carbon consumption at a side event during the 2023 Partnership Forum at the UN ECOSOC.
Alibaba denied a rumor that it is planning to build global headquarters in Singapore, adding that the firm had participated in the construction of a joint facility in 2019 to provide office space for various Southeast Asian business units under Lazada and other subsidiaries.
