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Year in Review: How world's top 10 business personalities fared in 2019

The year 2019, a breakthrough year for business, saw both fortunes being built and destroyed. Business Standard lists top 10 business personalities from across the globe who made headlines in 2019

Softbank's Son reiterates his belief in gut-led investing in chat with Ma

SoftBank owns 26% of China's Alibaba, with its origin in a $20 million investment in 2000, and the stake is now worth more than the Japanese firm's market capitalization

Jack Ma's Ant Financial plans to raise about $1 billion for start-ups

The firm is looking to back more start-ups in those regions that focus on payments and online finance, the person said, confirming a DealStreet Asia report

How Alibaba founder Jack Ma is ripping a $12 trillion stock market

On Monday, China's largest e-commerce company logged more than $38.3 billion of purchases during its annual Singles' Day shopping event, a new record

Alibaba's $38-bn Singles' Day sales: Jack Ma not impressed, expected more

Launched in 2009, Singles' Day has become China's version of US online sale event Cyber Monday

Alibaba's Singles' Day sales hit $38 bn to beat Amazon, but growth sales

Singles' Day is a gauge of Chinese consumer sentiment and also a shop window for Alibaba as it plans sale of $15 bn worth of shares.

Tearful Jack Ma formally leaves Alibaba with rock star performance

Ma's exit comes as Alibaba has grown to become Asia's most valuable listed company, with a market capitalisation of $460 billion

Alibaba's Jack Ma steps down as industry faces uncertainty amid trade war

Ma, one of China's wealthiest and best-known entrepreneurs, gave up his post on his 55th birthday as part of a succession announced a year ago

World expected a Chinese tech takeover. Alibaba can't even conquer Vietnam

The Chinese juggernaut handles more business than any other company. Yet like many of its compatriots, it has struggled to expand into new markets

Top events today: Apple launch event, Jack Ma hangs his boots, and more

Apple fans will be able to watch the unveiling of the awaited iPhone 11 lineup on YouTube this year

Alibaba's chief talks strategy and his fondness for NBA 'Killer'

We have already built a very solid foundation in e-commerce, said Daniel Zhang

'Gold standard' for succession: Jack Ma is retiring as Alibaba thrives

Ma plans to put his vast fortune - among China's biggest at $41 billion - into initiatives serving his first love, education

People may have to work just 12 hours a week thanks to AI, says Jack Ma

Just this year, Ma had endorsed the China tech sector's infamous 12-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week routine, so common it earned the moniker 996

Jack Ma takes on Elon Musk over future of Artificial Intelligence

The Chinese co-founder of Alibaba and the maverick industrialist behind Tesla and SpaceX frequently pulled pained expressions and raised eyebrows as they kicked off an AI conference

How Jack Ma's $290 billion loan machine is changing Chinese banking

The financial-technology boom that turned China into the world's biggest market for electronic payments is now changing how banks interact with companies that drive most of its economic growth

Jack Ma sells cancer insurance to millions of Chinese for pennies

Ant Financial envisions having 300 million members within two years -- the equivalent of one in every five people in China

Jack Ma's 72-hours-a-week in office mantra sparks work-life debate in China

Online complaints included blaming long work hours for a lower birth rate in the country

Work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week: Jack Ma demands of his staff at Alibaba

China's tech industry is littered with tales of programmers and startup founders dying unexpectedly due to long hours

Property titan Xu Jiayin overtakes Alibaba's Jack Ma as China's richest man

Evergrande Group owner Xu Jiayin's fortune of about $42.5 billion puts him ahead of Jack Ma ($35.4 billion) and Tencent founder Pony Ma Huateng ($35.3 billion)

How billionaire Jack Ma is using sports data to change the way people shop

Using marathons as a guinea pig, it's scooping up broadcast rights and collecting information on participants and viewers to sell them everything from running shoes to health insurance