Tag: Jack Ma

Fairfax papers in Alibaba’s sights

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
Newspaper and internet group Fairfax last week confirmed the media sector’s worst kept secret as it unveiled a damp squib of a half year result: that it is considering...

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...

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,...

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...