Alibaba to integrate e-commerce platforms into one business group

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Alibaba Group will integrate all of its e-commerce platforms into a single business unit to be called the Alibaba E-commerce Business Group, it said in a stock exchange filing on Thursday. This marks the first time the group's domestic Chinese e-commerce group and its international e-commerce platforms will be integrated. (Reporting by Casey Hall; editing by Jason Neely).