China Is Good Bet for E-Commerce Growth, Billionaire Milner Says

Bing Liu, a computer science professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is trying to devise mathematical models that can unmask fake product endorsements. “The incentives for faking are getting bigger,” he said. “It’s a very cheap way of marketing.”

In the brutal world of online commerce, where a competing product is just a click away, retailers need all the juice they can get to close a sale.

This kind of thing happens all the time now, but three or four years ago it still seemed momentous and thrilling: a sudden argument at a dinner party (something about Tom Selleck and Burt Reynolds and iconic mustaches of the ’70s) was quickly put to rest when half the people present picked up their phones and started to Google. Observing this, a friend of mine made what struck me as a very

Everyone wants a piece of a new parent — or, at least, the wallet of a new parent.

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