The Alibaba culture: kung fu commerce with a dash of theater
By Paul Carsten and Stephen Aldred BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - When Jack Ma and his colleagues sat down in 2001 to lay out Alibaba's defining values, they named them after...
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Sony, Shanghai Oriental Pearl to set up China PlayStation JVs
By Paul Carsten BEIJING (Reuters) - Japan's Sony Corp and China's Shanghai Oriental Pearl Group Co Ltd will set up two joint ventures to make and market Sony's PlayStation games...
Lenovo’s away game counters China weakness
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's biggest personal computer maker, showed why it is expanding overseas and into smartphones as it reported its slowest annual profit growth...
China’s Tencent looks to replicate mobile gaming success for e-commerce
BEIJING (Reuters) - Tencent Holdings Ltd, China's biggest listed tech firm, is ratcheting up its profits on smartphones as it transplants its strength in social networking and gaming onto mobile....
Fighting fakes: ahead of IPO, Alibaba takes a tougher line
BEIJING/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alibaba is taking a tougher line against counterfeit items sold on its online marketplaces as the Chinese e-commerce giant heads towards a U.S. stock listing that...
At China’s Alibaba, chairman Ma’s dealings raise red flags
SAN FRANCISCO/BEIJING (Reuters) - Part-way through Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's long-awaited IPO prospectus was a subtle, but striking, warning: investors should know that lead founder and executive chairman Jack Ma...
China party mouthpiece says no Internet freedom without order, as U.S. TV shows pulled
BEIJING (Reuters) - There can be no Internet freedom without order, China's top Communist Party newspaper said on Monday after several U.S. television shows were pulled from Chinese video sites,...
China party mouthpiece says no Internet freedom without order, as U.S. TV shows pulled
BEIJING (Reuters) - There can be no Internet freedom without order, China's top Communist Party newspaper said on Monday after several U.S. television shows were pulled from Chinese video sites,...
Baidu forecasts stronger-than-expected second-quarter revenue
(Reuters) - Chinese Internet company Baidu Inc forecast better-than-expected revenue for the second quarter, sending shares up 5 percent in after-hours trading. Baidu said revenue in the second quarter will...
Alibaba’s IPO architect lays out blueprint for e-commerce empire
HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - Alibaba, the world's biggest e-commerce company, changed how China shops. Now the man driving its blockbuster U.S. stock sale wants to transform the rest of the...