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- Alibaba's world : how a remarkable Chinese company is changing the face of global business / by Erisman, Porter.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In September 2014, a Chinese company that most Americans had never heard of held the largest IPO in history - bigger than Google, Facebook and Twitter combined. Alibaba, now the world's largest e-commerce company, mostly escaped Western notice for over ten years, while building a customer base more than twice the size of Amazon's, and handling the bulk of e-commerce transactions in China. How did it happen? And what was it like to be along for such a revolutionary ride? In Alibaba's World, author Porter Erisman, one of Alibaba's first Western employees and its head of international marketing from 2000 to 2008, shows how Jack Ma, a Chinese schoolteacher who twice failed his college entrance exams, rose from obscurity to found Alibaba and lead it from struggling startup to the world's most dominant e-commerce player. He shares stories of weathering the dotcom crash, facing down eBay and Google, negotiating with the unpredictable Chinese government, and enduring the misguided advice of foreign experts, all to build the behemoth that's poised to sweep the ecommerce world today. And he analyzes Alibaba's role as a harbinger of the new global business landscape--with its focus on the East rather than the West, emerging markets over developed ones, and the nimble entrepreneur over the industry titan. As we face this near future, the story of Alibaba--and its inevitable descendants--is both essential and instructive"--"What is as powerful as Google, more popular than Facebook, and more economically disruptive than Amazon and eBay combined? Alibaba operates the world's biggest online shopping mall, with 600 million registered users (Amazon has roughly 200 million). It executes about 80% of China's e-commerce transactions and generates nearly 70% of all packages in China, making up close to 2% of China's GDP. And its marketplaces include another 60 million small and medium-size business users spread over 200 countries. This Chinese company is poised to make its global debut with an IPO that could be the largest in history. But what is Alibaba? How does it work? And why should we be paying attention? Porter Erisman shows how Jack Ma, a charismatic Chinese schoolteacher, rose from obscurity to revolutionize commerce in China, and now the world. He shares stories of weathering the dotcom crash, facing down eBay and Google, negotiating with the Web-phobic Chinese government, and enduring the misguided advice of foreign experts, all to build the behemoth that's poised to sweep the ecommerce world today. And he analyzes Alibaba's role as a harbinger of the new global business landscape--with its focus on the East rather than the West, emerging markets over developed ones, and the nimble entrepreneur over the industry titan. As we face this near future, the story of Alibaba--and its inevitable descendants--is both essential and instructive"--- Subjects: Ma, Yun, 1964-; Alibaba (Firm); Electronic commerce; Internet marketing;
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- Meg. [videorecording] / by Wheatley, Ben,1972-film director.; Hoeber, Jon,screenwriter.; Hoeber, Erich,screenwriter.; Georgaris, Dean,screenwriter.; Di Bonaventura, Lorenzo,film producer.; Avery, Belle,film producer.; Statham, Jason,1967-actor.; Wu, Jing,1974-actor.; Cai, Sophia,2008-actor.; Kennedy, Page,1976-actor.; Peris-Mencheta, Sergio,1975-actor.; Samuels, Skyler,1994-actor.; Guillory, Sienna,1975-actor.; Curtis, Cliff,1968-actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Alten, Steve.Trench.; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ),presenter.; CMC Pictures (Firm),presenter.; DF Pictures (Firm),presenter.; Zhongguo dian ying gu fen you xian gong si,presenter.; Alibaba Pictures,presenter.; Di Bonaventura Pictures,production company.; Apelles Entertainmnent, Inc.,production company.; Warner Bros. Entertainment,publisher.;
Director of photography, Haris Zambarloukos ; editor, Jonathan Amos ; music, Harry Gregson-Williams.Jason Statham, Wu Jing, Sophia Cai, Page Kennedy, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Skyler Samuels, Sienna Guillory, Cliff Curtis.Jonas Taylor leads a research team on an exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean. Their voyage spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival. Pitted against colossal, prehistoric sharks and relentless environmental plunderers, they must outrun, outsmart and outswim their merciless predators.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.; for action/violence, some bloody images, language and brief suggestive material.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Action and adventure films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Feature films.; Sharks; Carcharocles megalodon; Human-animal relationships; Ocean mining; Rescues;
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