Alibaba Group $BABA Quarterly Results, LIVE Webcast Nov 2, 7:30am ET

$BABA shares up almost 83% in the past year as of Oct 31, 2017

Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA) (domain: alibabagroup.com) will release unaudited financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2017, before the U.S. market opens on Thursday, November 2, 2017, via Alibaba Group’s Investor Relations website: alibabagroup.com/en/ir/home.

LIVE Webcast conference call to discuss the financial results that same day at 7:30 a.m. U.S. ET (7:30 p.m. Hong Kong Time). 

Conference call dial-in:

International: +65 6713 5090

U.S.: +1 845 675 0437

U.K.: +44 203 621 4779

Hong Kong: +852 3018 6771

Conference ID: 96302187

September Quarter 2017 Results Press Release (pdf) and Presentation (pdf) embed below:

An archived webcast will be available through the same link above following the call. A replay of the conference call will be available for one week (dial-in number: +61 2 8199 0299; conference ID: 96302187). More info: http://www.alibabagroup.com/en/ir/earnings.

Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese e-commerce company that provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business sales services via web portals.

Founders: Jack Ma, Peng Lei, Joseph C. Tsai, Cathy Zhang, and more

Founded: April 4, 1999, Hangzhou, China

Chairman: Jack Ma; CEO: Daniel Zhang (May 10, 2015–)
Subsidiaries: Alibaba.com, UCWeb, Ant Financial, Alibaba Cloud, and more.

About Alibaba Group (source: AlibabaGroup.com)
Alibaba Group’s mission is to make it easy to do business anywhere. The company aims to build the future infrastructure of commerce. It envisions that its customers will meet, work and live at Alibaba, and that it will be a company that lasts at least 102 years.

Tmall.com, formerly Taobao Mall, is a Chinese-language website for business-to-consumer online retail, spun off from Taobao, operated in China by Alibaba Group:
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Alibaba Group $BABA Q2 2017 Earnings LIVE Webcast Aug 17 Replay

Alibaba and Tencent Place Big Bets to Justify Valuations

Video above published Aug 14, 2017: Alibaba and Tencent can count themselves among the world’s costliest technology companies after a stellar run. To justify those lofty valuations, China’s two largest corporations have to deliver on some of the riskiest bets they’ve placed in years. Bloomberg's Selina Wang has more on "Bloomberg Technology."

Alibaba Group Holding Limited (domain: alibabagroup.com)

Stock exchange: symbol  |  NYSE: BABA

Alibaba Group release of unaudited financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2017: before U.S. market open on Thursday, August 17, 2017.

Conference call to discuss the financial results at 7:30 a.m. EDT (U.S. Eastern Time) (7:30 p.m. Hong Kong Time) August 17:

LIVE Webcast Replay of the earnings conference call. The replay of the conference call will also be available for one week via dial-in number: +61 2 8199 0299; conference ID: 61383477.  Press Release (pdf) excerpt below, and Presentation (pdf) embed below:

Excerpt from Alibaba Group Press Release

• Investor Relations: http://www.alibabagroup.com/en/ir/home

• Earnings Releases: http://www.alibabagroup.com/en/ir/earnings. 

See also:

• Veteran Stock Picker Buys Gold, Cuts Alibaba Stake | Barrons.com

• JD.Com: Margins Scream 'BABA' (NASDAQ:JD) | SeekingAlpha.com: "... JD investors may be wise to follow Warren Buffett, who sold his Walmart (WMT) shares citing a "tough, tough competitive force" that the rest of us simply calls Amazon (AMZN). The Amazon of China is, of course, BABA ..."

• Tencent Dominates in China. The Next Challenge Is Rest of the World | Bloomberg.com: "The WeChat app has almost a billion users, and many of them use it all day." And Tencent to boost AI after profit jumps on mobile games, WeChat | Reuters.com.

About the Alibaba Group (source: Alibaba Group)

"Alibaba Group’s mission is to make it easy to do business anywhere. The company aims to build the future infrastructure of commerce. It envisions that its customers will meet, work and live at Alibaba, and that it will be a company that lasts at least 102 years."

Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese e-commerce company that provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business sales services via web portals.

• Founded: April 4, 1999, Hangzhou, China
• Principal shareholder: Jack Ma (7.8%)
• CEO: Daniel Zhang (May 10, 2015–)
• Subsidiaries: Alibaba.com, Ant Financial, AutoNavi, Alibaba Cloud, MORE
• Founders: Jack Ma, Peng Lei
• Alibaba is the world's sixth-largest internet company by revenue according to wikipedia.org. Other Chinese companies in the top ten: JD.com (3), Tencent (5), and Baidu (8).

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Tech Review: Uber ex-CEO Travis Kalanick & Silicon Valley Culture (videos)

Tech Review (TR 2017-06-24)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech news:

Features • 1) Uber ex-CEO Travis Kalanick & Silicon Valley Culture, 2) Ant Financial is an AI company, 3) Cisco Live 2017 Las Vegas Keynote, 4)  Amazon Web Services | AWS re:Invent 2017, 5) Google for Jobs, 6) FTC vs DraftKings-Fanduel merger, 7) ICYMI Tech News.

1) Uber ex-CEO Travis Kalanick & Silicon Valley Culture (videos)

The Rise and Fall of Uber's Controversial CEO:

Video above published Jun 21, 2017: Bloomberg Profiles looks at the story of Uber's Travis Kalanick and how he went from UCLA dropout to CEO of the world's most valuable technology startup.

The Story Behind Travis Kalanick's Ouster as Uber CEO:

Video above published Jun 22, 2017: Matt Cohler and Peter Fenton, partners at venture capital firm Benchmark, hand-delivered a letter urging Travis Kalanick’s resignation as Uber's CEO, people familiar with the matter said. Bloomberg's Eric Newcomer reports on "Bloomberg Technology."

Uber Technologies Inc. is a US-based technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California, operating in 570 cities globally. It develops, markets and operates the Uber car transportation and food delivery mobile apps. The company is a privately-held VC-backed "unicorn" having raised about $11.56 billion from 16 rounds of venture capital and private equity investors.

Principal domain: uber.com

Uber’s Lesson: Silicon Valley’s Start-Up Machine Needs Fixing | NYTimes.com: "... this was a clear failure of oversight — of investors, boards of directors, partners and anyone else who could have altered Uber’s course and clearly failed to do so. Overlearning the lesson of Steve Jobs’s first fall at Apple — and of founder-led hyper-successes at Google and Facebook — Silicon Valley’s investors created a culture where founders are given carte blanche, their pronouncements and tactics elevated to the level of divine infallibility."--Farhad Manjoo.

See also:

• Musings on Markets: Uber's bad week: Doomsday Scenario or Business Reset? | aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com

• Uber employee petition asks for CEO's return | TheHill.com

• The Unaffordable Urban Paradise | MIT TechnologyReview.com: "Tech startups helped turn a handful of metro areas into megastars. Now they’re tearing those cities apart."

Other Tech News:

2)  The Chinese Finance Giant That’s Secretly an AI Company: "The smartphone payments business Ant Financial is using computer vision, natural language processing, and mountains of data to reimagine banking, insurance, and more."--MIT TechnologyReview.com

3)  Cisco Live 2017 Las Vegas Broadcast | CiscoLive.com:  Opening Keynote by Chuck Robbins, CEO, Cisco, Monday, June 26, 10:30 am PDT

4)  AWS re:Invent 2017 | Amazon Web Services: registration now open for the world's largest global cloud computing conference, 27 Nov - 1 Dec 2017; campus: ARIA, Encore, MGM, Mirage, The LINQ, The Venetian in Las Vegas, NV (US).

5) Google for Jobs--The World’s Largest Job Board: "search something like “jobs near me” or “restaurant jobs in Chicago,” you’ll be ushered to a new part of Google Search that falls under the umbrella Google for Jobs."--fastcodesign.com

6) The FTC, jointly with the Attorneys General in California and the District of Colombia, is attempting to block the DraftKings-Fanduel merger--TechCrunch.com.

7) ICYMI Tech News Quick Takes:

• Foxconn plans U.S. display making plant for over $10 billion, scouting for location | Reuters.com
• China's JD.com invested nearly $400 million into fashion startup Farfetch.com.--Recode.net.
• Top 10 Mistakes in Enterprise Blockchain Projects | gartner.com: "Part of the problem is that the majority of enterprise blockchain projects don’t actually require blockchain technology. In fact, these projects would probably be more successful if they did not utilize blockchain."
• Media Companies Are Getting Sick of Facebook | Bloomberg.com: "“Facebook is about Facebook,” says Andrew Morse, general manager of CNN’s digital operations."
• Imagination Tech up for sale after bruising Apple fight | Reuters.com
• Amazon Welcomes You To The New World Order: Reflections On The Whole Foods Acquisition - Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) | SeekingAlpha.com.
• Trump Promises a Federal Technology Overhaul to Save $1 Trillion | MIT TechnologyReview.com
• "Moby Store, launched by Wheelys, a Stockholm-headquartered crowdfunded startup. Originally focused on making cafés that can be moved from one spot to the next by bike, the company is now testing out a model of a 24-hour store run entirely by technology."--In China, a Store of the Future—No Checkout, No Staff | MIT TechnologyReview.com.
• Apple's Next iPhone Too Little, Too Late?--SeekingAlpha.com: "Apple revenue growth is stalling, particularly in China. Apple keeps raising iPhone prices to maintain margin ... Expected features of the next iPhone are pretty tame. The iPhone may go the way of Mac computer - a tiny niche in a massive market."
• Exclusive: China Unicom counts Alibaba, Tencent among investors in drive to raise $10 billion - sources | Reuters.com

-- John Poole, Editor, Domain Mondo  

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Alibaba Group $BABA 2017 Investor Day June 8-9 Presentations

Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA  |  Domain: AlibabaGroup.com) hosted an Investor Day on June 8-9, 2017 (China Time) at Alibaba Xixi Headquarters, Hangzhou, China. Speakers included Jack Ma (Executive Chairman), Joe Tsai (Executive Vice Chairman), Daniel Zhang (CEO), Maggie Wu (CFO) and other members of the senior management team.

2017 Investor Day June 8-9, 2017
Venue: Alibaba Xixi Headquarters, Hangzhou, China
Speakers: Jack Ma (Executive Chairman), Joe Tsai (Executive Vice Chairman), Daniel Zhang (CEO), Maggie Wu (CFO) and other members of our senior management team.

Key executive sessions:
Strategic Perspective on the Alibaba Economy : Daniel Zhang, Chief Executive Officer
Video  |  Presentation

Financial Perspective and Guidance : Maggie Wu, Chief Financial Officer
Video   |  Presentation

Presentation materials of the day:

• Strategic Perspective on the Alibaba Economy
• Financial Perspective and Guidance
• Mobile Commerce - New Ways to Engage Consumers
• The New Retail Disruption - TransforM ALL
• Transform Marketing - How Brands Can Leverage the Alibaba Platform
• Alibaba Cloud - Strategies for Growth
• From Commerce to Entertainment - A Synergistic View
• Technology - Infrastructure, AI and More
• Ant Financial - Financial Services for Consumers and Small Business
• Cainiao Network - Scale, Efficiency and Consumer Experience
• Investments, Acquisitions and Capital Allocation

About Alibaba Group: Alibaba Group's mission is to make it easy to do business anywhere. The company aims to build the future infrastructure of commerce. It envisions that its customers will meet, work and live at Alibaba, and that it will be a company that lasts at least 102 years. (source alibabagroup.com) 

Investor relations: http://www.alibabagroup.com/en/ir/home

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Founders Fund's Approach to Investing in Tech (video) | TR 2017-04-22

Tech Review (TR 2017-04-22)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech news:

Features • 1) Founders Fund's Approach to Investing in Tech,  2) Q1 2017 Earnings TWTR, VRSN, GOOG, AMZN, 3) Qualcomm, 4) Google Antitrust case in Russia, 5) Trump's DOJ Antitrust Chief, 6) Windows XP, 7, 8, 10 or a Chromebook? 7) ICYMI 7 Tech News Quick Takes.

1) Founders Fund's Approach to Investing in Tech

Video above published April 21, 2017: Brian Singerman, a partner at Founders Fund [domain: foundersfund.com], discusses the firm's investment strategy with Caroline Hyde on "Bloomberg Technology." Techonomy CEO David Kirkpatrick also speaks.

Other Tech News:

2)  Q1 2017 Earnings Season: this coming week on Domain Mondo:

• Twitter TWTR April 26 at 7:00 am EDT
• Verisign VRSN Apr 27 at 4:30 pm EDT
• Alphabet GOOG / GOOGL Apr 27 4:30 pm EDT
• Amazon AMZN Apr 27 at 5:30pm EDT

3) Qualcomm $QCOM Q2 FY17 Earnings LIVE Webcast April 19 REPLAY | Domain Mondo.com and Qualcomm's Pandora's Box Wide Open | SeekingAlpha.com.

4) Google settled its antitrust case in Russia, ending exclusivity of Google applications on Android-based devices in Russia and ending restrictions on pre-installation of rival search engines and other applications, as part of a deal with FAS, the Russian antitrust regulator.--FAS Russia Reaches Settlement with Google | en.fas.gov.ru

5) President Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Justice's antitrust division, Makan Delrahim, will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.

6) Windows XP: Why it won't die for years to come | ZDNet.com: "Spiceworks calculates that Windows XP is running on 14 percent of all PCs in businesses worldwide, while Windows Vista is only running on one percent. In contrast, Windows 7 has the highest share, running on 69 percent of business PCs. Windows 10 currently has nine percent of the overall share, followed by Windows 8 at five percent, according to the research."--Editor's note: Windows 7 was the best OS Microsoft has ever made. Windows 8 was a disaster, and Windows 10 carries many of the same flaws. For most PC users, a good Chromebook is a much better choice going forward.

7) ICYMI 7 Tech News Quick Takes:

1. China's Ant hikes MoneyGram bid by over a third, beats rival U.S. offer | Reuters.com
2. Redesigned Google Earth brings guided tours and 3D view to Chrome browsers and Android devices | TheVerge.com
3. Verizon profit, revenue miss Wall Street view as subscribers dash | Reuters.com
4. Publishers are seeing another big decline in reach on Facebook | Digiday.com
5. Google: The Most Valuable Company In The World | Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) | SeekingAlpha.com
6. India's Paytm in talks with SoftBank to raise $1.2-$1.5 billion: report | Reuters.com
7. China's Ant Financial targets brand boost in SEAsia with helloPay deal | Reuters.com

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