Alibaba calls off cloud spinoff in major blow to overhaul effort
The company announced its decision along with quarterly earnings.
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The company announced its decision along with quarterly earnings.
Alibaba Group on Thursday scrapped plans to spin-off its cloud business, citing uncertainties created by U.S. export curbs on chips used in artificial intelligence applications. The announcement came alongside in-line second-quarter revenue from the Chinese e-commerce group, which in March had unveiled plans to carve out the cloud business as part of the biggest restructuring in its 24-year history. The company also put on hold plans for an initial public offering of its Freshippo groceries business but said it would prepare external fundraising for its international digital commerce group a...
Shares of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba slid after it announced that it would not proceed with the full spin-off of its cloud group.
A survey of North American equities heading in both directions
HONG KONG -- Alibaba Group Holding has reversed a plan to fully spin off its cloud unit, the company said Thursday, in a surprise move that the Chines