Alibaba Offers Smart TV Operating System to Lure More Users
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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., China’s largest e-commerce company, has designed a smart television operating system and set-top box to win more users by offering services on a wider spectrum of devices.
Alibaba’s system will run a set-top box developed in collaboration with Wasu Media Holding Co. that will link TVs to the Internet, Yu Ce, vice president of Alibaba, said at a press conference in Beijing yesterday. Other manufacturers will also incorporate the system, which will include online shopping, and integrate its payment system Alipay in their TVs, Yu said.