SNS Subscriber Edition Volume 17, Issue 34 Week of September 8, 2014
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In This Issue
Feature: The Alibaba IPO: The Other Side Quotes of the Week
Takeout Window
The 2014 Ebola Outbreak in Western Africa
Upgrades and Numbers
The “Unnovation” Economy: Copying the Thieves
T-Mobile Sues Huawei
An Open Letter to Petro O. Poroshenko: How Putin Thinks
An Open Letter to David Cameron
Ebola: Out of Control
Ethermail
In Case You Missed It… SNS Members Making News
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Sometime in the next week or two, the most important event since global plates drifted apart will take place – if media coverage is any indicator. I refer, of course, to Alibaba’s over-hyped initial public offering (IPO).
For months now, during a time when most firms in a similar position would be in “quiet period,” the company has been running what looks like an intercontinental public relations campaign to make sure it is in the headlines day-in, day-out.
No doubt, most of our members are asking: “Should I invest?”
In this issue, we won’t answer that question (directly). But, unlike all of the major business media, we’ll take a colder look at the company and its new offering: no breathless hype, no sycophancy, but a more systematic view of what’s happening in, and around, this event.
Let’s look at this story from a number of different viewpoints, and then judge the overall picture when we’re done.
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