Sumana Harihareswara’s keynote will close LibrePlanet 2017

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, USA – Wednesday, January 25, 2017 – The Free Software Foundation announced today that Sumana Harihareswara will be a keynote speaker at LibrePlanet, the annual free software conference, on Sunday, March 26th, 2017. The annual free software conference will close on the evening of March 26th with Harihareswara discussing her experiences within free software and the things she has learned over the years, in a talk tentatively titled “Lessons, Myths, and Lenses: What I Wish I’d Known in 1998.”

Alibaba to buy China mall operator in $2.6 bn plan

Chinese e-commerce titan Alibaba will take control of domestic department store Intime through a $2.6 billion privatisation scheme, the companies said Tuesday, sending shares of the mall operator surging. Alibaba and Intime founder Shen Guojun have together offered to pay HK$10 per share to buy the shares they do not already own of the Hong Kong-listed chain.