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Jack Ma

TLDR: Why Amazon wanted to put workers in cage-like devices + GIVEAWAY

Today’s featured stories Years after patenting the concept, Amazon admits putting workers in a cage would be a bad idea… Read More

Updated: Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma plans to retire after building China’s biggest retail and cloud computing empire

Almost 20 years after he founded Alibaba, the Amazon of China, Executive Chairman Jack Ma plans to retire to focus… Read More

Donald Trump has ‘great’ meeting with Alibaba’s Jack Ma about creating 1M U.S. jobs

Embed from Getty Images One of China’s top business leaders met with Donald Trump today in what was described by… Read More

Alibaba goes Hollywood: e-commerce giant strikes deal to finance Steven Spielberg movies and bring them to China

Alibaba Pictures, the film and television arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, is teaming up with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners… Read More

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Here is what China is getting right

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg continued his charm offensive in China this week, meeting with the country’s propaganda tsar and going on… Read More

Taj Mahal

Amazon voted India’s most trusted web store as retailer readies to vie for market with Alibaba

Consumers in India trust Amazon’s brand more than any other web retailer, according to a survey of 2,500 people there.… Read More

Alibaba founder Jack Ma looking to increase holdings in media sector, reportedly seeks stake in magazine Caixin

Jack Ma, founder and executive chairman of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, is in talks to buy an undisclosed stake in… Read More

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba acquires South China Morning Post

Perhaps Jeff Bezos started a trend two years ago when the Amazon founder acquired the Washington Post. Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba… Read More

Alibaba founder Jack Ma: Being an entrepreneur isn’t about making money

HANGZHOU, China — To produce more entrepreneurs that help build innovative companies, Jack Ma says we should rethink how young students… Read More

Alibaba founder Jack Ma tells U.S. college basketball players in China to embrace failure

HANGZHOU, China — Alibaba, athletics, and American universities came together on Tuesday in China at the headquarters of one of… Read More

Mark Zuckerberg wears a suit, Jeff Bezos is best-dressed at meeting with China president

Many of the world’s top technology CEOs were looking fancy and fresh at Microsoft’s headquarters on Wednesday — even Mark Zuckerberg… Read More

Alibaba’s stock falls 4 percent after Barron’s predicts the Chinese company’s collapse

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce darling that exploded last year in its public market debut, is getting hammered today after a distressing… Read More

Watch out Walmart: Alibaba’s sales could be larger than yours this year

Alibaba is aiming to be an e-commerce powerhouse on a scale no one else can match. That was the message Alibaba’s Founder… Read More

Alibaba shares hit all-time low after implementing hiring freeze

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is implementing a hiring freeze, saying it grew too quickly over the past year. “Alibaba has really developed too quickly,”… Read More

Amazon e-commerce rival Jet.com reportedly backed by Alibaba

E-commerce titans Amazon.com and Alibaba appear to be on a collision course of sorts. And now here’s one very interesting… Read More

Alibaba’s Jack Ma tells Charlie Rose about discovering the Internet in Seattle

The first time Alibaba’s Founder and CEO Jack Ma used the Internet he was in Seattle. “I tried the Internet in… Read More

Alibaba will take Taobao e-commerce marketplace international, Jack Ma says

In the latest sign of Alibaba’s global ambitions, the Chinese e-commerce company is planning to take its key Taobao marketplace… Read More

Tim Cook

Watch out Amazon: Apple may team up with Alibaba

Watch out, Amazon: Apple and Alibaba may be teaming up. Both Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alibaba CEO Jack Ma… Read More

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