What is Alibaba? It's kind of like if you combined Amazon, Hulu, JCPenney, PayPal, Google Maps, Twitter, Spotify, Orbitz...

May 09, 2014

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Lot of news recently about Alibaba, since it's going public in the United States. A common refrain is: what is it? There are many ways to answer that -- do your own Google search -- but this one might be the best contextual explanation of the company. Based on the different services they pr…

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