A tale of two ecommerce giants
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Bezos's Amazon and Jack Ma's Alibaba report bumper profits, but both online shopping giants face challenges. Rory Cellan-Jones speaks to the BBC's Asia business correspondent Karishma Vaswani about Jack Ma's run-in with Chinese regulators, while BBC technology reporter Jane Wakefield assess the impact of Jeff Bezos's decision to step away from day-to-day running of Amazon. Plus we hear from Eliot Higgins, founder of online investigators Bellingcat, about how the internet has changed intelligence gathering. And Leo Kelion speaks to social networking pioneer Michael Birch about his plans to relaunch the social network platform Bebo.
(Photo: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Alibaba’s Jack Ma, Credit: EPA/ Reuters)
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| 0:24.1 | Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.1 | Hello and welcome to TechTent, your weekly guide to everything that matters in the technology business. |
| 0:37.5 | I'm Rory Kathleen Jones. |
| 0:39.0 | And this week, Amazon's Jeff Bezos is going. |
| 0:42.5 | Alibaba's Jack Ma is back. |
| 0:44.8 | The leaders of two tech giants have been making big news this week. |
| 0:48.8 | We'll assess where the American and Chinese online shopping behemoths go next. |
| 0:53.9 | The investigative journalism site, Bellingat, has used digital sleuthing to unveil the truth about war crimes. |
| 1:00.5 | Its founder tells us about their methods. |
| 1:03.6 | And remember before Facebook and Twitter there was Bebo. |
| 1:06.9 | Well, it's back and not for the first time. |
| 1:08.7 | We'll find out why. |
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