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When David E. Haber ’09 learned through a Yahoo group that he could figure out his Harvard room number a few weeks early by simply logging onto the student directory and tracing the telephone number listed there, he immediately opened up his Web browser to my.harvard.edu and scoured thefacebook.com for the telephone number...
These freshmen, the so-called “myspace generation,” according to Troy Murrell ’09, say they believe their entry into college will be smoother, thanks to cyber “spaces” like thefacebook, Yahoo groups, and other message boards...
...example, word about the telephone number leak spread rapidly among the ’09 network already established by Yahoo groups, message boards, and thefacebook...
...company Yahoo! is buying into, Alibaba, is already a profitable business-to-business e-commerce site. (The company is privately held - it plans to go public next year - and doesn't publicly disclose financial results.) The more direct competitor to eBay, called Taobao (?searching for treasure? in Mandarin) isn't yet profitable, but according to Yang is a ?great franchise in the making.? Both sites were started and are run by 40-year-old internet entrepreneur Jack Ma, who will remain in charge. ?This is definitely an arrangement where we think have great assets coming together, but this (deal) would...
...date Ma has reveled in playing David against Meg Whitman's Goliath - even though Taobao surpassed eBay in the second quarter of this year in terms of the value of transactions done on its site. Now that Yahoo! is giving him $1 billion to go after Whitman and eBay, his 'David' days are over. But the fight for the world's next great e-commerce market had just begun...