By David Li, bostonese.com
Hangzhou, China, Nov. 11, 2014, — If you want to increase the sales of your e-commerce website dramatically, how about invent a new shopping festival on the Singles’ Day? That’s exactly what the Alibaba group did in 2009 when it created the annual shopping festival on Nov. 11, which was widely known as the Singles’ Day in China.
Alibaba’s CEO Jack Ma takes David Beckham on a tour of the company’s headquarters(file photo).
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Internet of Things: Unpaved Road to the Next Big Thing
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Internet of Things (IoT) has been regarded by many as one of the greatest transformational forces in our time. Gartner estimates that IoT will generate 1.9 trillion of economic value-add in 2020. In healthcare alone, IoT is expected to add $285B provider value to global economy. McKinsey puts the economic value-add at $6.2 trillion annually by 2025.
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By David Li and Wendy Wang, contributing reporter for bostonese.com
Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 25, 2014, Global Diaspora Forum: 2014 Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation Development Annual Conference for US Chinese Diaspora Beyond Border was recently held at Harvard University. It aims to deepen understanding of the situation of China-US trade and investment for American society, and promote bilateral trade and investment, and to provides new opportunities entrepreneurship and innovation development for US-Chinese Diaspora and investors.
Prof. Guoping Zhang (left) and MA State Rep. Tarkey Chan pose for a picture (photos by Wendy Wang and Xie Zhen).
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Oct. 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — This year’s winter weather predictions vary on the amount of precipitation we can expect, but many of them agree that much of the country will experience below normal temperatures. The Energy Education Council encourages you to take some simple steps before these cold temperatures set in to help keep warm air in your home and money in your pocket by making your home more energy efficient.
There were quite a few snow storms last winter in Boston (file photo).
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Beijing, Oct. 23, 2014, (ecns.cn) –Foreign visitors to China can create an instant camaraderie of goodwill by speaking a few words of Mandarin. But Mark Zuckerberg went one step further: he conducted a complete half-hour public conversation in the Chinese language.
Mark Zukerberg gives a speech at Tsinghua University on Wednesday. [Photo: screen shot from online video]
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Boston, Oct. 21, 2014, –AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) Community held a Rally for the MA Governor Candidate, bringing community members together to utter a collective voice on Oct. 19 in Boston Chinatown with hundreds of AAPI supporters. Governor Deval Patrick and Attorney General Martha Coakley, who is also the MA Governor Candidate, were the feature speakers. Light receptions and the Chinese lion dance at the Metropolitan Building Courtyard (38 Ash Street, Boston) lightened everybody up in the cold weather.
A.G. Martha Coakley (MA Governor Candidate) offers her passionate talk(all photos provided to bostonese.com).
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Boston, Oct. 20, 2014, –The National Association of Asian American Professionals Boston Chapter (NAAAP Boston) is proud to announce that NAAAP Boston won two 2014 NAAAP National Awards of Excellence-“NAAAP Leader of the Year” and “NAAAP Program of the Year”-among the 27 NAAAP chapters and associate chapters in North America at the NAAAP National Convention in Anaheim in September.
Gary Locke speaks at the NAAAP National Convention Gala as a keynote speaker (provided to bostonese.com).
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Boston, Oct. 8, 2014 – National Grid recently filed with the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) to adjust electric and gas rates for the winter. The company’s electric customers will see a significant increase in their bills due to higher power supply prices (the cost of the electricity National Grid buys for customers and passes on without a mark up). Starting in November, a typical residential customer will see an electric bill that is 37 percent higher than last winter for the same amount of electricity used. Gas rates will be one to three percent lower than last year, but using more natural gas for home heating as the weather cools down means that gas bills will rise for most customers as they do every winter.
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Oct. 9, 2014, (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton) Sorry, America. China just overtook the US to become the world’s largest economy, according to the International Monetary Fund.
We’ve just gone past that crossover on the chart above, according to the IMF. By the end of 2014, China will make up 16.48% of the world’s purchasing-power adjusted GDP (or $17.632 trillion), and the US will make up just 16.28% (or $17.416 trillion).
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