Ballmer also gets a passive minority stake in the huge upside ahead with Alibaba Group (with direct assurances from his partner Ma that no funny business goes on).
These agribusiness monsters can and do use their influence and the abiding myth promulgated by show business that farming is still an 1880s style business with Ma and Pa against the elements against you, the taxpayer.
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Nina has an MBA from Wharton School of Business, an MA focused in Creative Writing from Dartmouth, and a BBA from University of Texas.
"China is getting stronger and doing the right things, while we are getting weaker and doing the wrong things, " says Ma Kai, dean of the business school of the China Institute of Technology.
Naturally the card networks such as Visa (NYSE: V) and MasterCard (NYSE: MA) , who invented the business of electronic payments, are in the motif.
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On May 11, Yahoo disclosed in an SEC filing that Alibaba Group had transferred ownership of its Alipay online payments business to Alibaba CEO Jack Ma.
In a bold step just this year, Ma in January reorganized the company into 25 business units to improve its competitiveness.
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Besides expressing little interest in buying into Ma Bell's shrinking long-distance business, he also said he would like to sell off many of his local phone lines.
To review: Yahoo earlier this week disclosed that it had learned that Alibaba, in which it holds a 43% stake, had transferred ownership of its Alipay online payments business to Alibaba Group CEO Jack Ma.
In case you missed the beginnings of this, Yahoo earlier this week disclosed in an SEC filing that it had learned that Alibaba, in which it holds a 43% stake, had transferred ownership of its Alipay online payments business to Alibaba Group CEO Jack Ma.
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Business Times and Economic Times says Mr Ma has failed to satisfy public expectations mostly on economic governance.
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The firm had transferred Alipay, an online-payments business, to a company owned by Jack Ma, Alibaba's boss according to Yahoo!
They see Ma pushing the group to also quickly set up its logistics business in China, where China really lags behind the US. There is no equivalent of a GSI Commerce over there (now owned by eBay (EBAY)).
Mr. Ma, you've mentioned that Alibaba when it first started was this business to business idea.
Knowing that most small business people would rather watch TV than log on to the Internet, Ma secured advertisements for Taobao on major TV channels.
"The business models remain to be invented, but this is a trend that is inevitable, " says Ma.
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