SHANGHAI: China's e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd will use proceeds from its potential IPO to fund acquisitions, media reported on Wednesday, as the firm looks to broaden its mobile services.
The group will not include most of its financial businesses, such as the Alipay online payment platform and its micro-loan services, in the potential IPO, chief executive officer Jonathan Lu was quoted as saying in the China Daily.
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