Techinasia: Alibaba revealed this afternoon that its finance subsidiary, Ant Financial – which runs Alipay,
Techinasia: Alibaba revealed this afternoon that its finance subsidiary, Ant Financial – which runs Alipay,
REUTERS: China‘s banking regulator has given a green light to MYbank, the online bank affiliated
The Wall Street Journal: The Shanghai Stock Exchange is on track to inaugurate a new market
The Wall Street Journal: The owner of several of the world’s best-known luxury brands has filed
THE PAYPERS: Alibaba Group has recently introduced a mobile app, Miao Street, that can help stores market
TECHCRUNCH: The bulk of Alibaba’s revenue still comes from China, but the e-commerce giant will focus
Bloomberg: Fan Bao and his ‘Alpha Team’ of investment bankers are scouring China’s startup scene to
The Guardian: A huge Chinese company, Tiens Group, is treating more than half of its
TECHINASIA: Online finance and lending platforms have been exploding in China, and the P2P lending sector
MONOCLE: With a “strategic co-operation partnership” in place, China has stood by Sri Lanka when its
TECHINASIA: Peer-to-peer lending is one of the hottest – if not the hottest – business model in
The Wall Street Journal: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Executive Chairman Jack Ma said the Chinese e-commerce giant has been expanding
The New York Times: Faced with an acute and worsening shortage of blue-collar workers, China is
TECHCRUNCH: Last month, WeChat launched City Services in select towns across China. If you’re already a user of WeChat, simply
TECHINASIA: Restaurant management software-as-a-service startup Keru Cloud today announced it has secured RMB 66 million (US$10.7 million) in series B
TECHINASIA: Peer-to-peer lending startup Jimubox has just secured $84 million in series C funding. It comes seven months
TECHINASIA: Alibaba is continuing its foray into entertainment with a US$134 million purchase of Yueke Software
TECHINASIA: China’s tech giants are working hard to make sure that consumers use their phones
TECHINASIA: Alibaba wants its merchants to ditch their PCs. The ecommerce titan has rolled out new tools
WIRED: Hugo Barra had a pretty good job—I mean, assuming you consider building the most popular
WIRED: It’s the perfect Internet strategy: Position yourself at the mouth of a datastream, then get
DEALSTREETASIA: Data from SNL Financial, released earlier this week,showed that Singapore state-owned fund Temasek Holdings is the single-largest foreign
TECHINASIA: China’s wannabe pop stars can now subject their friends to drunken renditions of Jay Chou
REUTERS: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) and its finance affiliate accelerated a drive to be
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: When the venture-capital fund of Li Ka-shing, Asia’s richest man, hosted a gathering of
FORBES: How a Russian investor Yuri Milner established his “gold-mining machine” (firm DST) and why he
E27.CO: China’s iMaibo, a stock market app, has grown from 10,000 to 100,000 active daily
TECHINASIA: Messaging app WeChat now has 500 million monthly active users (MAUs), parent company Tencent
Channel NewsAsia: Xiaomi has added a function that allows users to buy money market fund
TECHINASIA: Yesterday at Cebit in Hanover, Alibaba founder Jack Ma took the stage to wax philosophical