Now, Alibaba will pay you for publishing content on its We-Media platform

Alibaba's UCWeb to compete with Google and FB in India; opts for recommendations-based strategy

Vying to be an alternative to Google and Facebook, Alibaba Group's mobile business unit UCWeb is banking on its content recommendation strategy in the country and will be offering monetary benefits to users who contribute self-generated content on the platform, reported The Economic Times on Monday. 

In January, Tech in Asia had reported that UCWeb had announced a $30-million investment to develop a content business around the UC Browser in India and Indonesia. And, its ambitions don't appear to be misplaced. Citing StatCounter, a web traffic analysis tool, Bloomberg Quint reported