On my recent trip to China where I met about a dozen Chinese Internet companies, there was probably one guy whose name came up more than any other: Jack Ma of Alibaba Group.
The New York-based drama group, Ma-Yi Theater Ensemble, now in its 10th season, did the latest staging, following its 1996 off-Broadway triumph, Flipzoids, about the identity crisis of modern-day Filipino Americans ("Flips" in street slang).
In the mid-2000s, Mr. Yang fostered a friendship with Jack Ma, CEO of Alibaba Group.
John Kerry (D-MA) reportedly told the group that he had spoken to Sen.
To review: Yahoo earlier this week disclosed that it had learned that Alibaba, in which it holds a 43% stake, had transferred ownership of its Alipay online payments business to Alibaba Group CEO Jack Ma.
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.
In case you missed the beginnings of this, Yahoo earlier this week disclosed in an SEC filing that it had learned that Alibaba, in which it holds a 43% stake, had transferred ownership of its Alipay online payments business to Alibaba Group CEO Jack Ma.
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With a Yahoo buyback in sight, and full control over the group, founder and CEO Jack Ma can focus on building an even better engine for online trade.
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He had also led the group that designed the Princess phone for Ma Bell and the "pop-up" SX-70 camera for Polaroid.
"He is passionate about and familiar with the group's various businesses, " said Ma in the announcement.
Ballmer also gets a passive minority stake in the huge upside ahead with Alibaba Group (with direct assurances from his partner Ma that no funny business goes on).
John Devane, a teacher at Coventry University with an MA from the Royal College of Art has been chosen for his group portrait of his three children, which he painted over three years and shows children emerging from childhood.
That group has been steadily declining since 2007, according to Jun Ma, Deutsche Bank's chief economist for Greater China.
Ma says he would like to get back some of the shares of Alibaba Group from Yahoo and Softbank.
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Jack Ma, chairman of China's largest e-commerce empire, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
Yahoo shares are down sharply in late trading after the company issued a statement in response to the situation involving Alipay, the former Alibaba Group online payments unit that now is controlled by Alibaba CEO Jack Ma.
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.
On May 11, Yahoo disclosed in an SEC filing that Alibaba Group had transferred ownership of its Alipay online payments business to Alibaba CEO Jack Ma.
The student prize went to Swansea Metropolitan architectural glass MA student Rhian Haf of Gwythevin, Abergele, for her glass sculpture Glass, Light and Space - a group of glass houses cast using an ancient lost wax technique.
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