Alibaba Hasn't Heard From Yahoo Since Issuing Comment

Alibaba hasn't heard from Yahoo! since the Chinese company criticized its US shareholder as "reckless" in supporting the position adopted by Google in China, Chairman Jack Ma said.

Ma has "no idea" about who was responsible for the cyber attacks against Google that prompted the world's largest Internet search engine operator to review its business in China. Alibaba, China's biggest online commerce company, said on Jan. 16 that it didn't support Yahoo's decision to align with Google over the cyber attacks. The stance taken by Yahoo, Alibaba's largest investor, may have generated assumptions about the Chinese government's role in the attacks that are not supported by facts, Alibaba spokesman John Spelich said.

Yahoo, which owns 39 percent of Alibaba, said on Jan. 13 it was aligned with the position adopted by Mountain View, California-based Google, which didn't identify the perpetrators of the attacks.