As Ma departed the White House campus, he was asked by reporters to describe his meeting. But some IACC members view the company as the world's largest marketplace for fakes. Ma was at the White House on Tuesday to have lunch with President Barack Obama, according to a White House official, who wasn't authorized to comment by name and requested anonymity. The IACC website listed Ma scheduled to talk Thursday about the importance of e-commerce and Alibaba's efforts to protect intellectual property rights on its platforms. NEW YORK (AP) " Jack Ma, the head of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, is withdrawing from an anti-counterfeiting convention in Florida just two days before he was scheduled to give the keynote speech.

Source: New Zealand Herald May 17, 2016 22:26 UTC