Facebook cofounder Eduardo Saverin says the best companies come out of downturns, because they forge entrepreneurs behind firms like Apple and Alibaba

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Facebook cofounder Eduardo Saverin

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Alibaba is so confident Beijing's tech crackdown has ended that it has just listed over 2,000 jobs for fresh graduates

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Alibaba is now on an hiring spree.

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Jack Ma started off as a school teacher and built China's Amazon. But 3 years after Beijing cracked down on his tech businesses, Ma's now turned to farming.

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Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba Group.
Jack Ma started off as a school teacher and built China's Amazon. But 3 years after Beijing cracked down on his tech businesses, Ma's now turned to farming.

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China's tech crackdown cost over $1 trillion. But the economy is in such deep trouble that the country's cozying up to its tech firms again.

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China's cozying up to its tech firms again after a massive crackdown wiped $1.1 trillion off the valuations of major firms in the sector.

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Meta's Llama 2 AI model is about to get a whole lot of use from Chinese companies, thanks to Alibaba

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Meta's Llama 2 will be available to Chinese businesses, thanks to Alibaba Cloud.

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Jack Ma, who disappeared from public view in 2020, just accepted a teaching position in Japan. Here's how the Alibaba and Ant Group founder got started and amassed a huge fortune.

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Jack Ma.

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Jack Ma, the billionaire co-founder of Alibaba who disappeared from public life in 2020, has taken up a teaching role in Japan

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Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma is now a visiting professor at Tokyo College.

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China wants its AI to only say nice things about the communist party. Good luck with that.

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China's President Xi Jinping (L) looks at former President Jiang Zemin and former President Hu Jintao taking seats during a military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing, China, September 3, 2015.

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OpenAI competitors from China: Alibaba, Bytedance, Tencent, and others vie for a 'winner-take-all' AI market

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Alibaba CEO Jack Ma.

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