<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Crowl</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:culturalengineer@gmail.com">culturalengineer@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:11 PM<br>Subject: Yahoo Discloses Jack Ma Takes Control Of Alipay From Alibaba<br>To: <br><br><br><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: 22px; font-size: 1em; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">
<b>RE: Online PaySystems, information ownership and human rights</b></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: 22px; font-size: 1em; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">
<a href="http://blogs.forbes.com/ericsavitz/2011/05/11/yahoo-discloses-jack-ma-takes-control-of-alipay-from-alibaba/" target="_blank"><b>Yahoo Discloses Jack Ma Takes Control Of Alipay From Alibaba</b></a></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: 22px; font-size: 1em; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">
>From the piece:</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: 22px; font-size: 1em; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">
<i>�To expedite obtaining an essential regulatory license, (from Chinese government) the ownership of Alibaba Group�s online payment business, Alipay, was restructured so that 100 percent of its outstanding shares are held by a Chinese domestic company which is majority owned by Alibaba Group�s chief executive officer��</i></p>
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<i>�Alipay is the largest online platform in the world in terms of registered users, transactions and total payment volume; he�s been estimating the company�s value at $2 billion. The company has 550 million registered users, compared with 94.4 million for for PayPal at the end of 2010.�</i></p>
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----------------------------------------</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><font color="#333333" face="Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 22px;">While the article narrowly�</span><span style="line-height: 22px;">focuses</span><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 22px;">�on the potential effect on Yahoo revenues�</span></font></p>
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For me the concern is how willing narrow interests are to place such a system under indirect control of those without a great deal of concern for human rights.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: 22px; font-size: 1em; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">
Don�t neglect the PaySystem landscape as economic interaction goes global!� and its relationship to human advancement. Precedents and patterns are being set which may be very difficult to dislodge.�</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">
<b><font><a href="http://culturalengineer.blogspot.com/2011/04/leveling-transaction-landscape.html" target="_blank">Leveling The Transaction Landscape: Technology and the Campfire</a></font></b></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: 22px; font-size: 1em; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">
Regards,</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: 22px; font-size: 1em; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">
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