But we passed eBay in China in just two years ... life unexpectedly difficult for Whitman & Co. Ma, 40, is a former English teacher turned Internet pioneer in China, where he started a company ...

This quote, from founder Jack Ma, has become emblematic of the half-decade battle between eBay and Alibaba ... of Hangzhou, China to befriend foreign tourists and learn English.

it does have a Plan B for China: linking Chinese entrepreneurs and exporters to eBay consumers elsewhere. The strategy is centered on sellers such as Tang Fengyan, 35, who goes by the English name ...

This quote, from founder Jack Ma, has become emblematic of the half-decade battle between eBay and Alibaba ... of Hangzhou, China to befriend foreign tourists and learn English.

This weekend, eBay’s CEO John Donahoe shared the stage with Alibaba’s maverick founder Jack Ma at his annual Alifest conference in Hangzhou, China. Gady Epstein, Forbes Beijing bureau chief ...

The number of internet users in China has grown rapidly over the ... of goods bought by Chinese consumers navigating eBay.com in English," she said. "We believe that in the future Chinese ...

Online auction house eBay China said yesterday it will provide free services for cyber shop owners starting today. The move aims to compete with rival taobao.com, a subsidiary of Jack Ma's Alibaba ...

John Lin, chief technology officer of eBay's Asia Pacific operations, thinks eBays marketplace may yet make a comeback in China. The company, which used to have a domestic Chinese consumer-to ...

EBay announced this month that it would expand the number of employees in the EBay China Development Center in Shanghai, headed by Daniel Lee, a former senior executive at Yahoo Inc. and Hewlett ...

He eventually became an English teacher ... so that the company could remain up and running. Meanwhile, eBay's presence in China was growing fast. It had bought a stake in Eachnet, a Chinese ...