Alibaba Group Holding Limited (阿里巴巴集团控股有限公司)
Alibaba Group Holding Limited (阿里巴巴集团控股有限公司) is a Chinese e-commerce company that provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business sales services via web portals. It also provides electronic payment services, a shopping search engine and data-centric cloud computing services.
Alibaba: The company – one of China’s largest – is now valued at $480bn, according to Forbes. The firm is also eyeing a stock market listing in Hong Kong.
Alibaba sees strong sales as Singles’ Day beats record
The world’s biggest online shopping event raked in more than $30.8bn (210bn yuan; £23bn) in sales in 16.5 hours of trading, surpassing last year’s all-time-high.
A gala featuring pop star Taylor Swift launched the 24-hour shopping blitz.
It marked Alibaba’s first Singles’ Day since the exit of its colourful founder, Jack Ma.
He was replaced as executive chairman by Daniel Zhang earlier this year after stepping down to focus on philanthropy and education.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50370740
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Alibaba-affiliated Ant Financial launched a new international version of its mobile payments app Alipay on Tuesday, marking the first time tourists and business travelers can use mobile payments in mainland China.
The service could remove one of the biggest headaches for visitors to China, where everyone from taxi drivers to luxury malls have come to rely on mobile payments.
Alipay users can now download and buy prepaid cards within the app using international debit and credit cards. The prepaid cards expire after 90 days and any remaining money is automatically refunded.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/05/tech/alipay-alibaba-china/index.html
Alibaba (BABA) and Tencent (TCEHY) dominate cashless payments in China with their Alipay and WeChat Pay platforms. With more than a billion users, the digital payment systems have largely replaced plastic cards and cash at registers, changed how friends and families give gifts to one another and even changed how panhandlers ask for money. Even Apple (AAPL) accepts Alipay in its local stores in China, after its own payment system failed to gain traction. Mobile payments in China hit $42 trillion in 2018, up more than 28 times from five years ago, the People’s Bank of China said in a… Read more »
Alibaba acquires NetEase Kaola for $2b
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd said on Friday it has acquired NetEase Kaola, the cross-border e-commerce platform of NetEase Inc, for $2 billion, as the e-commerce giant seeks to bolster its efforts to cater to local demand for quality products from abroad.
The real big boss of Alibaba: 中国工商银行
中国工商银行:
2008年，中国工商银行收购南非标准银行20%股权，成为第一大股东。2014年1月29日，中国工商银行收购了标准银行公众有限公司已发行股份的60%，成为了标准银行的最大股东。
南非标准银行:
软银目前市值大概1000亿美元。孙正义在软银也只是持有20%的股份，他只是最大的个人股东，软银最大的股东是南非的标准银行。也就是说标准银行才是最大的赢家。
孙正义软银:
软银对阿里巴巴的初始注资为2000年的2000万美元，持有阿里巴巴约37%的股份。如果按照1530亿美元的IPO估值计算，软银所持有的阿里巴巴股份将价值560亿美元。
http://news.creaders.net/china/2018/07/24/1976557.html
这是一则国内网上流传的阿Q假新闻。软银十股东见下：
https://www.softbank.jp/en/corp/irinfo/stock/ownership
Masayoshi Son 231,205 21.01
The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. (Trust Account) 87,958 7.99
Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd. (Trust Account) 61,378 5.58
JP MORGAN CHASE BANK 380055 47,939 4.36
Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd. (Trust Account 5) 16,775 1.52
GOVERNMENT OF NORWAY 14,259 1.30
STATE STREET BANK WEST CLIENT – TREATY 505234 13,496 1.23
Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd. (Trust Account 1) 12,269 1.11
Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd. (Trust Account 2) 12,148 1.10
CITIBANK, N. A. －NY, AS DEPOSITARY BANK FOR DEPOSITARY SHARE HOLDERS 11,978 1.09
那腾讯又是怎么和中国工商银行扯上关系的呢？
根据2017年腾讯控股的财报显示，马化腾持有腾讯9.1%的股份，而腾讯的第一大股东，则是持股33.51%，所持股份价值高达1320亿美元的米拉德国际控股集团公司（MIH）。
MIH则是南非报业集团（Naspers）全资子公司，而南非报业集团又被南非标准银行控股。最后又回到了南非标准银行背后的中国工商银行一事上。
日本软银是阿里第一大股东，而软银的第一大股东是南非标准银行，南非标准银行，但在2014年1月29日，“宇宙第一大行”中国工商银行与标准银行签订协议，收购了标准银行公众有限公司已发行股份的60%，成为了标准银行的最大股东。
搞清楚了吗？简言之关系就是这样的：中国工商银行→南非标准银行→软银→阿里。
http://news.creaders.net/china/2018/01/02/1907811.html