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Alibaba to buy Lazada for $1 billion

Alibaba Group Holding LTD., in a turn of events, has agreed to buy control of  Indonesian e-commerce operator Lazada Group SA ‘for about $1PHP 59INR 85EUR 0.95CNY 7 billion’ in hopes to see growth in the Southeast Asian region.

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Bloomberg reports that China’s largest e-commerce operator will pay $500PHP 29,343INR 42,375EUR 476CNY 3,639 million for new shares in Lazada while also purchasing stocks from existing investors.

“With the investment in Lazada, Alibaba gains access to a platform with a large and growing consumer base outside China, a proven management team and a solid foundation,” said Alibaba President Michael Evans.

Rocket Internet’s Lazada is currently selling goods in six Southeast Asian markets including Philippines and with this venture, Alibaba aims to reach different consumers other than China.

{Bloomberg}

Kevin Bruce Francisco
Kevin Bruce Francisco
Kevin Bruce Francisco is the Senior Editor and Video Producer for YugaTech. He's a Digital Filmmaking graduate who's always either daydreaming of traveling or actually going places on his bike. Follow him on Twitter for more tech updates @kevincofrancis.
  1. not another Chinese Company… inaagaw na nga WPS pati ba naman Lazada..

    • Alibaba is a chinese company, but it isn’t owned by the chinese government, business is business.

      look up Jack Ma, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLZNvCDgfUA CEO of Alibaba

  2. One would think that they would have thought of buying CD-R King.

    • No need, they already sell Chinese products. ;P

  3. Including “the” Philippines. Please don’t forget that. It’s always THE Philippines.

    • Grammar 101. . haha

    • Not exactly. Philippines is okay. “the” was used for The Philippine group of islands. You don’t say “including the “. For example, including the Indonesia, etc…

  4. Does this mean more Meizu phones at Lazada? Alibaba owns a minority stake at Meizu.

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