Alibaba Group Holding

SINGAPORE (May 28): Alibaba Group Holding’s Ant Financial Services Group is set to become the world’s most valuable fintech company. An upcoming fundraising of US$10 billion ($13.45 billion) — which, according to reports, has been oversubscribed —

(May 16): Sea, operator of Southeast Asia’s biggest gaming platform, said it may raise funds to strengthen its balance sheet after its quarterly loss tripled on rising investments at mobile-shopping unit Shopee.

(Apr 11): Temasek Holdings has pretty high hopes for Ant Financial.

(Apr 9): SenseTime Group has raised US$600 million ($789 million) from Alibaba Group Holding and other investors at a valuation of more than US$3 billion, becoming the world’s most valuable artificial intelligence startup.

(Mar 2): DBS Group Holdings returned almost 84% of its profit last year to shareholders, the most since 2005.

SINGAPORE (Jan 15): For years, Chinese internet companies such as Tencent Holdings, Alibaba Group Holding and Baidu have had an unfair advantage over their Western counterparts such as Google parent Alphabet, Facebook and Amazon.com in that China’s lax

SINGAPORE (Jan 22): My Global Portfolio is exactly one month old this week. Total portfolio value is up 6.8% to US$534,186, outpacing the MSCI World index gains over this period. In fact, it has outperformed the benchmark index in three of the past four w

SHANGHAI (Oct 17): They’ve made billions of dollars helping sell everything from iPhones to hairdryers on China’s burgeoning online shopping platforms. Now, tech giants led by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s finance affiliate are making money off the l

SINGAPORE (Oct 11): Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding will be opening a research lab in Singapore as part of its newly-launched global technology research program, Alibaba DAMO Academy.

(Aug 29): Thailand has seen an explosion of internet shopping in recent years as consumers become more tech savvy. And if that’s anything to go by, e-commerce in Southeast Asia is taking off as well.