Tagged: alibaba group

September 30, 2019 @ 11:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ant Financial Services Group, an affiliate company of the Chinese Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA), is teaming up with Bayer Crop Science to create a blockchain-enabled platform for monitoring agricultural product. Ant Financial and Bayer Crop signed a letter of intent to leverage blockchain technology to develop… Read More

September 8, 2019 @ 11:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chinese multinational conglomerate Alibaba Group has acquired Kaola for approximately $2 billion from Hangzhou-based entertainment giant NetEase. The acquisition has created the largest cross-border e-commerce platform in China, according to Alibaba’s management. Commenting on Alibaba Group’s latest acquisition, company chief executive Daniel Zhang said:  “With… Read More

September 6, 2019 @ 10:14 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Brazilian fintech EBANX announced on Friday it has formed a partnership with AliExpress, a global retail online marketplace of Alibaba Group, to launch a physical store in Curitiba, Brazil.  According to EBANX, the store consists of a 32 meters panel, installed in one of the… Read More

April 9, 2018 @ 7:43 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

SenseTime, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company, announced on Monday it raised $600 million during its Series C round of funding, which was led by the Alibaba Group with participation from  Temasek and Suning. This round of funding comes less than a year after the company raised $410 million through its… Read More