Getting To the Truth About Alibaba: Three Whoppers and a Good One | SupplyChainBrain

Getting To the Truth About Alibaba: Three Whoppers and a Good One

Jim Tompkins, CEO, Tompkins International

January 17, 2015

Three of the leading news and business publications recently wrote related stories on Alibaba. Between November 30 and December 22 three articles on Alibaba were published that are just plain wrong.

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