Pioneering Retail, Facebook Monopoly and Alibaba Cloud + Esri

China takes the lead in pioneering retail

The future of retail in the world’s leading economies is increasingly expected to be not online shopping, but a melding of e-commerce and physical stores.

Zuckerberg owns or clones most of the “8 social apps” he cites as competition

Congress should push Zuckerberg to explain what apps compete with Facebook as a core identity provider, an omni-purpose social graph, or cross-platform messaging app.

Alibaba Cloud + Esri

Combining Esri’s excellence in GIS with Alibaba’s market leadership in IaaS allows customers to experience cost-effective elastic computing and automatic scaling to meet all demands, in their public and private clouds.

Why This Facebook Data Contractor Launched ‘Femigrants’ To Help Female Immigrant Entrepreneurs

I want to help female immigrants become successful leaders. There are various immigrant related organizations, but they are community based. I wanted to build a meaningful network of diverse women—religion, race, culture, ethnicity—where we can give and get support.

Healthcare: Cancer breakthrough leads China’s biotech boom

Wealthy Chinese people often travel to the US for healthcare, but it is rare to hear of someone going the other way. Indeed, Mr Chase was the first American to be treated at the Jiangsu hospital, where he underwent an experimental procedure known as chimeric antigen receptor cell therapy or Car-T.

It involves extracting a patient’s blood cells, re-engineering them in a lab so they can identify and destroy cancer and then re-inserting them into the body.