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Oak Investment Partners was a
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The SEC investigation revealed that Ifty manipulated at least 9 Oak investments for personal gain --
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Alibaba buys out food delivery service Ele.me at $9.5B valuation
</strong>
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The Alibaba Group has announced that it will acquire the rest of online food delivery company Ele.me in a deal that values the company at
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$9.5B
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.
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The Chinese tech giant first invested in Ele.me two years and currently owns close to 43% of the company’s voting shares along with its affiliates.
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Get it while it’s hot
</strong>
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Founded by Mark Zhang and Jack Kang in 2008, Ele.me claims to be China’s biggest online delivery and local services platform, but at its core, it’s a logistics technology company that uses their logistics system to provide local delivery services.
</p>
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With the deal, Ele.me will continue to operate
<a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
under its own brand
</a>
, and Mark Zhang will become chairman as Wang Lei, the current VP of Alibaba group, will take over as Ele.me’s CEO.
</p>
<h4 style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 16px;">
<strong>
This is a part of Alibaba’s “new retail” strategy
</strong>
</h4>
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This is the latest in a frenzy of investments and acquisitions by Alibaba as they look to grow their physical presence in the retail space.
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Their
<a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
plan
</a>
is to combine e-commerce and offline retail to make it easier to move and spend cash between brick-and-mortar stores and Alibaba businesses.
</p>
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With Ele.me, they look to complement Koubei, their affiliate local services platform, by combining Ele.me’s online home delivery services with Koubei’s consumer acquisition and engagement capability for restaurants.
</p>
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Sheesh. That’s a lot of buzzwords.
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<strong>
Express Scripts forces Axios to take down leaked drug pricing contract
</strong>
</h2>
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Two weeks ago, Axios got their hands on a
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36-page contract
</a>
template leaked by a source in the healthcare industry that gave insight into the mysterious way Express Scripts negotiates prescription prices with drug companies.
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Alas, within a fortnight, Express Scripts forced the document to be taken off the web. So Axios came in pens a blazin’, fighting back the only way they know how -- a
<a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
4-part expose
</a>
outlining Express Scripts secretive process for setting drug prices.
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Pharmacy benefits managers like Express Scripts act as middlemen between drug companies and employer health plans. And they have a few tricks up their sleeves when it comes to making money off medicine…
</p>
<h4 style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 16px;">
<strong>
Like a secret, “proprietary algorithm”
</strong>
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AKA, a
<a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
black box of calculations
</a>
used to determine whether a drug is billed as a brand, or a generic (labeling a drug as a “brand” costs employers a ton more -- and is far more lucrative for Express Scripts).
</p>
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Not to mention a vise-grip on pharmacies: Independent pharmacists report being strong-armed into signing contracts that reimburse them at rock-bottom rates for filling prescriptions, rather than lose their patient base.
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And they’re not exactly paying their profits forward
</strong>
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Anthem
<a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
dumped Express Scripts
</a>
last year after accusing them of collecting lucrative rebates from drug companies and keeping them all to themselves, instead of passing those benefits on to Anthem.
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Smugglers used drones and inter-skyscraper cables to get $80m of iPhones into China
</strong>
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Last week, Chinese border patrol authorities
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arrested
</a>
26 smugglers for running a smuggling operation that made Ocean’s Eleven look like stealing candy from an unattended Halloween bowl.
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Under the cover of night, the smugglers
<a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
flew
</a>
two 660-foot-long cables between skyscrapers in Hong Kong and mainland China using drones. Packing tiny bags full of refurbished iPhones, the hardware-traffickers transported 15,000 phones across the border before sunrise.
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<h4 style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 16px;">
<strong>
Why go to such great lengths (and heights)... for iPhones?
</strong>
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The tiny Sham Chun River is all that physically separates the “Special Administrative Region” of Hong Kong from the city of Shenzhen, a part of mainland China -- but the two cities are worlds apart for consumers.
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“Special” tax exemptions make iPhones $200
<a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
cheaper
</a>
in Hong Kong than across the river, opening up a huge black market for iPhones and other luxury items along the Hong Kong-Shenzhen border.
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<strong>
People will do anything... for the right profit margin
</strong>
</h4>
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The recent heist was far from the first high-profile smuggling case -- last year, a woman was apprehended with 102 iPhones
<a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
strapped
</a>
to her chest -- but it was the first time commercial drones were known to be
<a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
adapted
</a>
for smuggling in China.
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Authorities in Shenzhen (which is home to
<a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
DJI
</a>
, the world’s largest commercial drone manufacturer) have announced plans to combat drone-smuggling with a combination of high-resolution surveillance -- and more drones,
<em>
the classic fix for everything!
</em>
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Watch out jocks; the gamers are coming for your sports. In partnership with eSports Venue, the city of Arlington, Texas announced plans to build the largest eSports stadium in the US later this year.
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Mining cryptocurrency with Chrome extensions
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Cryptocurrency prices may be diving, but blockchain shenanigans are still red hot. Google recently announced it would no longer accept applications for cryptocurrency mining Chrome extensions.
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According to Google, 90% of mining extensions did not comply with Google’s use terms -- meaning they failed to tell users when they were zapping sweet computational power for mining. Chalk it up to blockchain-fever.
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It’s 2018: If your business isn’t running with the sky people (AKA cloud), you’re bringing up the rear. Zoho gives you everything needed to run your business from, well, anywhere.
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And that means
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Zoho apps cover your business from marketing to HR, sales to finance, and of course CRM -- if it’s a business essential, Zoho has the solution. Throw in a fully customizable platform and built-in integration across apps, and you got yourself success-sauce.
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Alright,
<em>
love
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is a strong word. Like, maybe. Ok, I’m cordial with small tasks at best.
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But, as a master procrastinator, I’ve found that putting off little things like quick emails or, say, rinsing a dish in my apartment typically has one of 2 outcomes:
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It sits in the back of my mind, sucking minute amounts of focus from every task throughout my day.
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It leaves my mind immediately and completely, never to return until it’s far too late (and 3 months later I realize I never responded to that email… or washed that plate).
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So, I’ve adopted the
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5-minute rule
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Any task that comes across my plate that takes 5 minutes or less to do, I do right then and there.
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It’s contrary to the idea of time blocking, but I’ve found that once my workflow is disrupted with a minor ask, 90% of the damage is already done.
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