How do you name a global conglomerate? Internet entrepreneur Jack Ma was in a San Francisco coffee shop one day when he pulled his waitress over to ask what she knew about Ali Baba. "Open Sesame," she responded. Encouraged, Ma took to the streets
The e-commerce behemoth Alibaba filed in the United States to sell stock to the public for the first time, in an embrace of the global capital markets that represents a coming-of-age for the booming Chinese Internet industry.
With Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. filing to go public, the biggest winner won't be founder Jack Ma or his fellow executives or even venture capital backers like Silver Lake Management LLC. It'll be Japan's Masayoshi Son. Fourteen years ago, Son's
Updated, 9:04 p.m. | The Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba Group filed paperwork on Tuesday in the United States to sell stock to the public for the first time, in an embrace of the global capital markets that represents a coming-of-age for China's
Everybody loves superlatives, and it is definitely Superlatives Week for the tech press. Alibaba's IPO will represent “surely one of tech's largest ever” Kara Swisher of Re/code intoned. Heather Somerville and Brandon Bailey of