Katie Benner, Columnist

Benner on Tech: Can Alibaba Change Silicon Valley?

Katie Benner’s roundup of the most interesting things in tech, today.

February 24, 2015 at 3:50 PM UTC

Katie Benner is a Bloomberg View columnist who writes about technology, innovation, and the cult and culture of Silicon Valley. She lives in San Francisco. Benner previously wrote a tech and finance column for the Information. She has worked at Fortune, TheStreet.com and CNN Money, and was a freelance writer based in China covering culture, business and politics. She has a bachelor's degree in English from Bowdoin College.

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