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...some time, it was simply a given that eBay would take China by storm as the online marketplace exploded, that it would be, as Bear Stearns analyst Robert Peck puts it, a "layup." In 1999, Shao Yibo, a Harvard Business School graduate, started EachNet, an e-commerce company, in China. Shao's site openly aped eBay in style and content, effectively screaming "buy me" at the San Jose, California, giant. In 2002 eBay complied, paying $30 million for a third of the company and taking the rest for an additional $150 million the following year. This, arguably, was a hefty...
...eBay's dominance of the next great e-commerce market has turned out to be anything but a layup. Even before the massive capital infusion from Yahoo!, Alibaba-Taobao was making life unexpectedly difficult for Whitman & Co. Ma, 40, is an English teacher turned Internet pioneer in China, where he started a company that provided basic information about Chinese industrial companies on the Web back in the mid-1990s. In 1999, he launched Alibaba, a business-to-business site that became profitable in 2002 and last year did about $70 million in sales. In 2003, he started Taobao?"searching...
After 38 minutes of back-and-forth action that saw Harvard lead by as many as seven and Princeton forge a five-point advantage, a layup by Tigers center Judson Wallace evened the score at 50 with just over two minutes...
...Crimson immediately responded to the Wallace layup as junior center Brian Cusworth tipped in a missed shot to give Harvard back a two point lead...
Cserny endured the physical contact she met each time she went to the basket, greeted by Dartmouth center Elise Morrison and forward Krista Perry. She hit the floor several times while going for a layup or an offensive rebound. And despite battling foul trouble in the first half, Cserny continued to play aggressive defense...