After Huge Alibaba Payday, a Test for Yahoo Executives

Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group filed plans to offer its shares in the U.S. Tuesday, valuing itself at more than $100 billion. WSJ's Rolfe Winkler reports. (Photo: Getty Images). Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. on Tuesday disclosed long-awaited

No matter which way you slice it, Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company, is big. Here is a look at some of the numbers in the company's filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Alibaba, which powers four-fifths of all online commerce conducted in the world's second-largest economy, is expected to raise upward of $15 billion and potentially surpass the $16 billion that Facebook Inc managed in 2012. It will become the largest 

Since she was hired in the summer of 2012, investors have paid little attention to her efforts to revive the fading Internet company and instead focused on what would happen with Yahoo's longstanding investments in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan. At Yahoo's 

The news follows a continuous string of rumors that the titanic Chinese e-commerce company was planning a public offering. Alibaba's IPO could be worth a whopping $16 billion — which is how much Facebook scooped up