In a series of interviews with global media, Mr Ma announced he was “going to war” with eBay. At the time, it seemed like a comical mismatch.

在接受全球媒体的一系列采访时，马云宣布与eBay“开战”。当时，这种宣战显得有些可笑，因为双方实力悬殊。

By 2007, eBay’s market share in China had dropped to less than 8 per cent and it had in effect quit the market. Taobao’s share price had soared to 84 per cent, making Mr Ma the unrivalled king of Chinese ecommerce.

到2007年，eBay在中国的市场份额降至不足8%，实际上已经退出了中国市场。淘宝的市场份额飙升至84%，这让马云成为了无可匹敌的中国电商之王。

He struck a landmark deal with his old friend Mr Yang in 2005, with Yahoo paying $1bn for a 40 per cent stake in Alibaba and handing its China operations over to Mr Ma to run.

2005年，他与自己的老朋友杨致远达成了里程碑式的协议：雅虎支付10亿美元收购阿里巴巴40%的股权，并将其中国业务交给马云运营。

In taking over Yahoo China, Alibaba inherited a scandal that would cast a shadow over Mr Ma’s reputation in the west but cement his image as a safe pair of hands in the eyes of the Chinese government.

阿里巴巴接管雅虎中国(Yahoo China)的同时也继承了一桩丑闻，这将为马云在西方的形象带来阴影，但巩固了其在中国政府眼里办事可靠的形象。

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