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Alibaba Buys Into Mapping Company

Juro Osawa and Paul Mozur, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 10 at 9:17 am PT

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is spending again to gain the upper hand as it competes to sell to China’s rapidly growing number of smartphone users.

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Alibaba Obtains $8 Billion Loan

Juro Osawa, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on May 2 at 9:55 am PT

Alibaba closed the loan deal on April 30 with nine banks.

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Chinese Web Firms Alibaba, Sina Form Alliance

Saabira Chaudhuri and Juro Osawa, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 29 at 9:52 am PT

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is forming a strategic alliance with Sina Corp., seeking to benefit from the social-media company’s broad user base for its Weibo microblogging service.

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Alibaba to Promote Its Mobile OS, After Fight With Google

Juro Osawa, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on April 15 at 3:29 pm PT

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. said it would promote its own smartphone operating system through subsidies to handset makers and a one billion yuan, or roughly $160 million, funding program for app developers.

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Alibaba Founder Jack Ma to Leave CEO Post

Paul Mozur, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 15 at 4:36 am PT

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. said founder Jack Ma will step down as chief executive on May 10, but will continue to act as executive chairman.

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U.S. Removes China’s Taobao From Piracy List

Paul Mozur, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 14, 2012 at 7:00 am PT

The U.S. removed Chinese e-commerce marketplace Taobao from its list of “notorious” markets for piracy, marking a success for owner Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. after it pledged earlier this year to work harder with the U.S. to improve the site.