By Gistmaster, E-commerce Billionaire,Jack Ma is buying the South China Newspaper.It would be recalled that fellow ecommerce billionaire,Jeff Bezos of Amazon also bought Washington Post in 2013 for $250 Million. Techcrunch wrote that Alibaba has jumped into the news business after the Chinese company confirmed on Friday that it has agreed to acquire the South China Morning Post (SCMP) following weeks of rumors. The Hong Kong-based newspaper and SCMP Group’s other assets, which includes local editions of Esquire and Elle, will cost Alibaba a little over HK$2 billion — around US$262 million — according to a regulatory filing. Alibaba didn’t disclose the cost of the deal when
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