aliba ba and tencent.nd their latest results in a few hours from now they will offer glimpses into the world's second—largest economy. alibaba is china's largest e—commerce platform, and its latest fourth quarter results are projected at around $13.5 billion, up nearly 50% froma year ago. the company has 699 million monthly active users, and has grown 5% in three of the previous four quarters. but china's economy has been slowing and that could have an affect on alibaba's business. hong kong—listed company tencent is best known for its wechat messenger service which in 2018 had over 1bn daily active users. tencent is also the world's biggest gaming company. but last year the chinese government unexpectedly froze the approval of new games. its last quarterly results saw profits slide 32% to $2.1 billion. both alibaba and tencent are competing against their us rivals, mariko oi takes a look at how they are faring. then known as thanks... no, not those, tech companies. they're the american companies which dom

we start off with china's technology giants as aliba ba start off with china's technology giants as alibaba and tense and unveil quarterly numbers today. investors will be focusing on what they say is the impact of this ongoing trade dispute. this mariko oi looks at how enmeshed the companies are in china's everyday life. they are known as fangs. tech companies. they are the american companies. they are the american companies which dominate the industry. and they are part of our everyday life. china has its own version. bafta. not these either. it stands for china's biggest tech dryers. almost everything you do online in china is linked to one of these companies. so who are they?

we start off with china's technology giants as aliba ba start off with china's technology giants as alibaba and unveil quarterly numbers today. investors will be focusing on what they say is the impact of this ongoing trade dispute. this mariko oi looks at how enmeshed the companies are in china's everyday life. they are known as fangs. tech companies. they are the american companies. they are the american companies which dominate the industry. and they are part of our everyday life. china has its own version. bafta. not these either. it stands for china's biggest tech dryers. almost everything you do online in china is linked to one of these companies. so who are they? baidu does a search. it is in the same game as google. but while the us firm is a world leader in internet search everywhere else in the world, baidu dominates in china. next is alibaba. it is like amazon, but now much, much more. the company, founded by jack but now much, much more. the company, founded byjack ma, already i’u ns company, founded byjack ma, already runs the biggest online shopping day of the year. known as s

there should be space for both amazon alibaba and. should be space for both amazon aliba ba and.y is coming from a slowdown in the level of growth from its domestic operations in china. the growth rate, it is still growing but not at the same pace, so they are looking internationally to power growth in the business overall. thank you. it has been great to have you on the programme. thank you for your comments about the beautiful game. use the hashtag to read that debate. that's it from business live today. there will be more business news throughout the day on the bbc live webpage and on world business report. hi, there. good morning. the weather is going to settle down as we go through the weekend, but, for now, it's going to remain fairly unsettled. sunshine and showers in today's forecast, not quite as windy as it was yesterday. this is the pressure chart, you can see we have this area of low pressure, moving away towards the east and then these weak weather fronts moving their way south across many parts through today. that's bringing lots of cloud, some outbreaks of rain. th

let's have a quick look at the stock price of alibaba, it quick look at the stock price of aliba ba,baba, it has risen in new york trading and that's after alibaba defied the slowdown in the world's second economy. growth in its core business and diversification into cloud computing and other services helped the firm beat expectations. revenues jumped more than 50% to 13.6 billion us dollars. now to china which is battling to contain a deadly disease affecting one of its most popular foods. african swine fever has led to more than 1 million pigs being culled, and prices of pork rising by around 35% since the ra ke pork rising by around 35% since the rake last year. protecting pigs is a very serious business here. this cou nty very serious business here. this county has had one official out break of african swine fever. 100 pigs died. officials won't say how many more nearby were killed to stop the spread. this is the very nervous man who is in charge of this checkpoint. mr tsun did not want to show his face. pigs dying from a rampant, almost always fatal, incurable disease is a big i

tencent and aliba ba the world, including here in asia. alibaba dominate the chinese market after uber sold its business there in 2016. after sustaining heavy losses, the platform withdrew from southeast asia last year, selling out to grab. it now holds a stake in the singapore —based firm, and grab faces stiff competition in its home country as well as malaysia, the philippines and vietnam from indonesia based go jek. philippines and vietnam from indonesia based gojek. i asked a correspondent whether uber‘s ipo will set a benchmark for the valuation of ride hailing companies in asia. i definitely think so. it is extremely exciting, and i think they are going to go really well. i think the interesting thing with grab and go—jek, if anything they have even more potential since they are turning into super apps, doing much more than what uber is doing, adding payment, adding a lot of other services, so if anything, i think we will potentially see even higher. but these companies, including uber, it takes them a very long time to turn a profit

allows chinese goods to be sold internationally and alibaba has goods to be sold internationally and aliba be sold internationally and alibaba has announced they will take goods from the likes of russia, italy, turkey, to sell on the platform so you are starting to see them encroaching into amazon territory. tell me about their relationship with the chinese government because particularly in the case of tencent it has proved a little fractious. they seem to have had problems in the last year and also alibaba, if you are going to succeed, you have to get on well with the government. you do and there was pressure on tencent in terms of the types of games, and there was criticism about how this had impacted teenagers in china. i think tencent is pretty robust, the largest gaming company in the world and one of the largest social media companies in the world. they have adopted their games to suit the government. they have and they are starting to look at that now. it's worth remembering how big an investor they are globally. they have investments in 700 different companies and many of them are