Tag: Alibaba

Lessons to learn from Jack Ma

Posted on   |  by Andrea Myles
As Jack Ma’s visionary words rang out across the crowd of 400-odd CEOs gathered to witness the opening of the Alibaba Australia and New Zealand office in Melbourne over...

Jack Ma: SME’s own the future

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Having a proven entrepreneurial nose for making the right (serial) bets on the next big trends in all things digital – including changing customer behaviour – and then spinning...

Ciobo’s hypocrisy in Hong Kong

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
The Turnbull Government’s lack of a clear China policy came under the spotlight last week when Trade and Investment Minster Steve Ciobo visited Hong Kong in an effort to...

IP strategies for success in China

Posted on   |  by James Riley
For every success story of an Australian company that has built an export success story on China, there are many others that have struggled. One key to building a...

China’s surprising FinTech boom

Posted on   |  by James Riley
For all the Chinese government’s grand plans to bring the country charging into the 21st Century as a powerhouse of science and technology the truth is, like its North...

Gazumped by the Kiwis again

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
What a difference a week makes. On April 13, Australia’s first ever Special Trade Envoy Andrew Robb took about 300 Australian business people to visit the headquarters of Alibaba,...

Turnbull in China: It’s all upside

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
The Innovation stream for government’s ambitious Australia Week in China program running this week may not have been the most popular on the massive eight-city caravan that has seen...

Alibaba rips down paywall at SCMP

Posted on   |  by James Riley
China’s ambitious internet, finance and media group Alibaba has delivered on its promise to pull down the paywall of the South China Morning Post, arguably still the best English...

President Xi’s seduction in Seattle

Posted on   |  by James Riley
There is intensifying competition between the world’s two largest economies in the technology sector. Part of this competition is overt – with Chinese tech and internet companies now of...