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...At home, it has come to a head in, for example, the government’s crackdown on tycoon Jack Ma, who has disappeared from public view....
...For more, James Crabtree expertly examines the twists and turns of Facebook’s troubles in India and the implication for Mark Zuckerberg’s broader expansion plans in the region....
...Founder Jack Ma unveiled an aggressive investment strategy, putting $680m into payments group PayTM while also funding the likes of Snapdeal, India’s second-largest ecommerce site....
...Founder Jack Ma has put India’s rapidly expanding ecommerce market at the heart of Alibaba’s plans for global growth over the past year, snapping up stakes in local start-ups PayTM and Snapdeal....
...“Jack [Ma] had said that when you find a spice trader from India and give them a new market in India online, and then Alibaba can extend the world market to them, then we will have it sorted.”...
...Vijay Sharma’s moment of revelation came in October 2011 as he watched Alibaba’s Jack Ma give a talk in Hong Kong....
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...Although Alibaba is understood to have no plans to launch its own services in India, its likely investment in Paytm follows a string of deals launched in 2014 by founder Jack Ma, ahead of his company’s blockbuster...
...Additional reporting by Lucy Hornby in Beijing, Kana Inagaki in Tokyo, Ed Crooks in New York, Simon Mundy in Seoul, Jack Farchy in Moscow and James Crabtree in Mumbai...
...Narayana Murthy Narayana Murthy’s reputation as a pioneer of Indian software seemed secure when he stepped down as chairman of Infosys, writes James Crabtree....
...growing number of global investors, are hoping to change that by rolling out types of mobile technology first popularised by Silicon Valley start-up Square, the payments company led by Twitter co-founder Jack...
...The US investigation into Infosys began in the aftermath of a lawsuit filed in 2011 by Jack Palmer, an Infosys employee in the US, who alleged that the company committed visa fraud and that he had faced...
...But when it comes to the gold market, they pay close attention to the prognostications of astrologers, writes Jack Farchy. The reason?...
...Additional reporting by James Crabtree in Mumbai and Andrew Jack in London...
...Additional reporting by James Crabtree...
...Indian e-commerce — James Crabtree, Mumbai 2014 was the year Indian ecommerce finally grew up....
...Instead of Indian luminaries, Mr Ruia name checks familiar American figures, such as Steve Jobs and Jack Welch, before returning quickly to the theme of family once again....
...I am standing on the edge of a playing field in a canary yellow polo shirt and Union Jack riding helmet, anxiously waiting to try my hand at elephant polo....
...Jack Goldstone, director of the Center for Global Policy at George Mason University in the US, argued in a paper last year that the increasing number of young people flowing from Africa and the Islamic world...
...Andrew Jack reports from Port-au-Prince on a nation struggling to rebuild....
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