At home in China, Mr. Ma is trying to stay ahead of the game as competition rises for the first time against his massive online shopping sites, Taobao Marketplace and Taobao Mall, which rival eBay.com in terms of transaction value.
Top seeds Chen Qi and Ma Lin of China beat Ko Lai-chak and Li Ching of Hong Kong 11-6 11-9 7-11 11-8 8-11 11-5 to take the men's doubles gold in table tennis and keep China on track for another Olympic title sweep in Athens.
Jack Ma, chairman of China's largest e-commerce empire, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
But China's Assistant Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu told the same briefing that the issue of North Korea and its satellite launch wouldn't be on the agenda at the global nuclear-security summit in Seoul next week.
Dozens or hundreds of Ebay sellers in China are cheaply sourcing goods from Ma's Alibaba site, then resell-ing the items at a profit, says Jason Brueschke, a sell-side analyst with Pacific Growth Equities in San Francisco.
Though Mr. Ma has high hopes for China, he sees Silicon Valley as the center of global innovation.
When China's trade ministry asked Mr Ma to set up ChinaMarket, 4, 500 companies joined before he ran a single advertisement.
"We believe that the government will react to this weaker-than-expected GDP growth rate by introducing more policy measures to boost lending, speed up project starts, encourage consumption, and support property sales, " Jun Ma, Deutsche Bank greater China chief economist said.
China led Argentina 2-0 through goals by Ma Yibo and Fu Baorong before the World Cup champions drew level before the interval, Luciana Aymer scoring both times.
They're chanting, "Go Ma Lin, " cheering on one of China's top ping pong players.
That group has been steadily declining since 2007, according to Jun Ma, Deutsche Bank's chief economist for Greater China.
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"The draft law it is really trying to tackle the issue in a proactive way, trying to tackle the pollution at its source, " said Ma Jun, a prominent environmentalist in Beijing and author of China's Water Crisis.
Jack Ma, on the other hand, had no interest in revitalizing Yahoo China.
That includes stakes in China's Internet and instant messaging leader Tencent Holdings (run by Chinese billionaire Ma Huateng), Russian Internet giant Mail.ru and Brazilian magazine publisher Abril.
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Ma Jun, a water specialist in Beijing, says that since the 1950s China has been digging ever deeper wells, and building ever more dams, canals, and water diversion projects.
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Ma Bang added that the player from Jiangsu Province has been placed in the same league as China's NBA export Yao Ming and 110m hurdles record holder Liu Xiang.
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Born in Hangzhou in 1964, Ma first made a name for himself with his idea to start an online directory called "China Pages, " widely regarded to be China's first internet-based company.
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