A Chinese company few Americans have heard of is gearing up for what could be the largest Internet IPO in U.S. history.
The company, Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co., runs 360buy.com, a fast-growing online-shopping site that sells a broad range of…
Shiseido is committed to achieving comprehensive growth by drawing on the strategic assets and talents of its strategic portfolio. Guided by the four growth strategies announced as part of the current Three-Year Plan, Shiseido is positioning itself as …
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is aiming to handle one trillion yuan ($157 billion) of transactions in 2012 on its Taobao consumer sales platforms, the company’s Chairman Jack Ma said Saturday.
Speaking at Alibaba Group’s annual c…
Foreign investors in the Internet sector and other restricted Chinese industries are looking into changing their contracts with local companies, in light of new guidelines for Chinese officials to review mergers and acquisitions.
The guidelines, annou…
As Chinese Web companies face mounting uncertainties, a new fund by former Google Inc. China chief Kai-Fu Lee shows that investors still have hope for the industry.
Mr. Lee has raised $180 million from a group of prominent investors for Innovation Wor…
EBay Inc. is evaluating acquisition targets in Japan and China, seeing Asia as key to growth.
In the next five years, Asia is expected to be the fastest-growing region for the company, continuing a trend of the past five years, said Jay Lee, eBay’s ma…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. unit Alibaba Cloud Computing is developing an operating system for mobile phones that it aims to release in the third quarter, a person close to the situation said Monday, as a range of companies battle to provide the core so…
Yahoo Inc. and China-based Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. have reached an agreement in principle to resolve their dispute over the ownership transfer of Alibaba’s online-payments business, called Alipay, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The owner of China’s 360buy.com aims to raise at least $2 billion in an initial public offering in the U.S. in 2013 or later, its chief executive officer said, in a sign of booming growth and intensifying competition in China’s online retail market.
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