Web Worm: Jack be nimble
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Why does Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo worry Alibaba supremo Jack Ma?
In 1995, in Seattle, a former English teacher from Hangzhou named Jack Ma got his first look at the internet. As the story goes, he was shown Yahoo’s search engine by a friend and entered the first query that came to mind: “China” and “Beer.”
The search came up empty.
Ma saw an opportunity. He returned to China and started a web design company called China Pages. In 1999 he founded online marketplace Alibaba, which later expanded into auctions, online ...
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