They placed banner ads for sale on eBay. Buyers of the banner ads will get discounted prices as well as matching number of shares in the private company.

Search on eBay’s website under “next aliaba” or go to: http://stores.e...n-China-Website

Sorry if you are offended but I just want to tell my honest observation. If you agree with me, I assume the founder of techcrunch.com, Michael Arrington, may consider hiring a China team who knows the inside out of China Internet market but at the same time be good at English writing. Then instruct this team to write China articles in English. I think these articles will be greatly satisfying all the western people who are keen to understand the China Internet market. Then based on that they can make informed decisions if they happen to be investors who are interested in investing in China or businessmen who want to explore the biggest Internet market.

Sorry if you are offended but I just want to tell my honest observation. If you agree with me, I assume the founder of techcrunch.com, Michael Arrington, may consider hiring a China team who knows the inside out of China Internet market but at the same time be good at English writing. Then instruct this team to write China articles in English. I think these articles will be greatly satisfying all the western people who are keen to understand the China Internet market. Then based on that they can make informed decisions if they happen to be investors who are interested in investing in China or businessmen who want to explore the biggest Internet market.

As for the news. Chinese government is the most unpredictable in the world. So I don’t make any prediction.

Alibaba was not acquired by Yahoo!

Instead, Yahoo Inc. signed a deal to buy 40 percent of Alibaba.com for one billion dollars cash while handing over the running of its China operations (Yahoo! China) to the Chinese online retailer, AFP reported.

See, e.g., http://www.chin...tent_468252.htm

This can also be verified by the latest news
China’s Alibaba plans to buy Yahoo-held stake amid Microsoft bid: report
http://news.yah...oo_080319132713

google it …

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These are good trends since TV and newspaper publishing is closely regulated by the communist party. The Internet provides open communications to the masses.

I’ve met the founding group at Alibaba. They are western educated and their ops copy the famous GE process. It’s first class. The core model is B2B, thus not very flashy.

In regards to advertising, there are few small advertisers to feed an AdSense-like market. Most of the Chinese Internet companies have their own sales staff and marketing services group who work direct with marcom. CTS Media is a good example. This advertising market is a tiny fraction of the global market. FYI.

Governments everywhere insert their 2cents. China is no different.

Just make it a public issue and SHAME them into agreeing.

Done.

Probably won’t be 100% smooth sailing, but I don’t think they would bog the deal down if it’s handled well enough.

Harry “deprecating to the end” Wang

They are COMMUNISTS

How exactly does Alibaba Group owns the Chinese Internet? Seriously..

Comment like #2 reminds us that this right and responsiblity should be safe-guarded fully, since there are so many arrogant morons in the West who think they are entitled to other people’s property.

Hi, you are bankrupt, remember? Of course you need to be reguated.

Id like to nuke their entire government before they get to big for their boots and start being unanswerable to noone.

Microsoft should just sell the alibaba stake. Alibaba is overrated and full of cheap / tacky items.

We have lots of traffic in china, but poor Ad revenue.

The startup to pull this off (monetizing with global ad-network China, Brazil, and the rest of asia and south america), will be hughe. Ad-sense sucks.

As for this article, I’m not sure what the chinese will do.