The protests point to a mindset shift in the tech industry, whose penchant for long hours has been praised by Western executives as a reason for China’s economic rise. read more

After advocating people to follow the spirit of “996” (9 am to 9 pm, six days a week at workplace), Alibaba founder Jack Ma now has given another advice for an improved life: Follow the spirit of “669” (sex for six days, six times, with duration being... read more

In a letter written on web-hosting service Github, owned by Microsoft, the employees have asked the company to keep the “996.ICU” GitHub repository uncensored, The Verge reported on Monday. read more

Billionaire Jack Ma again encouraged tech workers to embrace the industry’s extreme-overtime culture, defying a growing social media backlash. read more

Responding to trauma calls when he worked for the air ambulance nearly drove him over the edge, recalled Prince William, who served as pilot at the East Anglian Air Ambulance for two years until six months ago. read more

Addressing the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting here, the Alibaba executive chairman also told business leaders never to worry about competition and pressure. read more

Policymakers must recognise that the current approach of extending competition law to the virtual marketplace does not suffice. The real problem is that this sector (just like others) is being restructured through the emergence of new business models... read more

The People’s Daily revealed Ma’s Party membership in a list of 100 people it said had helped drive the country “reform and opening up” process. Ma is China’s richest man with a fortune of $35.8 billion, according to Forbes. read more

Alibaba e-commerce tycoon Jack Ma declared the US-China trade war ‘the stupidest thing in the world’. read more

Hong Kong had already missed out on Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s IPO, the biggest in history, because Jack Ma and his team weren’t willing to give this up. read more

Jack Ma said his ambitious pledge to create one million jobs in the US had been scuppered by the trade row between Beijing and Washington. read more

China’s richest man said the dispute could last 20 years and persist beyond the presidency of Donald Trump. read more

Daniel Zhang, who takes over from Jack Ma, must now steer the Alibaba Group abroad, where it’s made headway in markets like Southeast Asia but remains alien to many Western consumers. read more

A former English teacher, Jack Ma started Alibaba.com in 1999 as a business-to-business marketplace with 17 co-founders. read more

Jack Ma, the richest man in China, is about to take the next step in his career, leaving the company he founded, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., to focus on education and philanthropy read more