In an interesting wrinkle, the latest round of speculation has Jack Ma, CEO of Chinese e-Commerce company Alibaba, being approached by private equity firms about possibly bidding for Yahoo!

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My guest today is the founder and CEO of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.com -- Jack Ma.

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Jack Ma, chairman of China's largest e-commerce empire, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.

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People like Li YanHong and Robin Li, founders of Baidu.com, or famed entrepreneur Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba group, which owns the most popular e-commerce sites, or Pan Shiyi and wife Zhang Xin, the Donald Trumps of China.

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Ma is part of a generation of Chinese Internet entrepreneurs who built successful businesses in e-commerce, entertainment, search and other fields.

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One of the group's 25 business units, Alibaba.com, an e-commerce platform for small businesses, went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2007, before Mr. Ma took it private again last year. (The rest of the group's units, including Taobao, Tmall and Alipay, have never gone public.) The financial crisis hurt Alibaba.com, he says, and it needed major changes.

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