Alibaba: Building a retail ecosystem on data science, machine learning, and cloud

Data science and machine learning for domain specific insights are at the core of Alibaba's strategy for global expansions. Apple's iPhone made its debut 10 years ago. Here's a look at how it has impacted business and the enterprise. The war in retail has long ago gone technological. Amazon is the poster child of this transition, paving the way first by taking its business online, then embracing the cloud and offering ever more advanced services for compute and storage to thirrd parties via Amazon Web Services (AWS).