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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Full Money. It's the Motley Full Money

radio show. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio this week for Million Dollar Portfolio

Matt Argersinger from MDP and Motley Full Rule Breakers Simon Erickson and for Motley

Full Funds Brian Henry. Good to see you as always, gentlemen.

You take the latest on tech stocks, the Eurozone and the business of online dating. We will

dip into the full mailbag and as always we'll give you an inside look at the stocks on

our radar. But we begin this week with online retail. The biggest IPO of 2014 was Ali

Baba, the Chinese e-commerce giant that has quickly become one of the largest public

companies in the world. Part of the optimism for the business was the belief that Ali Baba

would take on e-commerce companies based here in the US. But this week the company announced

it is selling its American subsidiary, 11 main, having reportedly failed to gain traction

in the market. Maddie, I'll start with you. This is kind of surprising, isn't it? When

you consider the deep pockets that this company has that after basically a year they pulled

the plug? I am glad we're leading with this story because to me it's a big story but

it didn't really get a lot of play in the mainstream media. I think it was on like page

three of one of the inside sections of the Wall Street Journal over the week. But yeah,

this was a year ago Ali Baba comes public. The world is all Twitter about how this company

is going to. That's my new word. They're going to punch Amazon in the gut, elbow, eBay

in the head and really kind of bite into US e-commerce. But here we are less than a year

later and they're closing down or selling their US business to consumer retail operation.

It was surprising to me and I think you saw Amazon eBay rally this week and I think for

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