The Nasdaq Stock Market has been in contact with Alibaba Group's Taobao.com and Shanghai game company Nineyou (9you) [about their listing plans], reports stockstar.com quoting Nasdaq Asia general manager and China chief representative Xu Guangxun. According to Xu, Nasdaq spent five months competing with NYSE Euronext for Giant Interactive's (NYSE: GA) public offering (Giant went with NYSE), and has negotiated with Alibaba Group CEO Jack Ma about listing Alibaba's subsidiaries on Nasdaq. Nasdaq opened a representative office in Beijing on December 3.