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Apr 25, 2014

Marketplace for Friday April 25, 2014

It was reported that Alibaba would be adding new shares to an impending deal that would push its IPO to $20 billion making it the largest IPO- ever. Marketplace’s Sabri Ben-Achour picks apart why Alibaba might be worth this much. Plus, there’s growing criticism over the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty. A recent ad has been called “patronizing” and Dove’s “most bulls**t ad yet.” Mitchell explains the controversy, and looks at whether Dove/Unilever expected – and will even benefit from – this outrage. Then, Oregon waives the White Flag and turns its exchange over to the Fed model, because fixing it would be just too expensive.  Maryland is also a mess, so it’s taking the Connecticut model.  And you thought Healthcare.gov was the problem. We look at the states which are running their own exchanges going into year two.  

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It was reported that Alibaba would be adding new shares to an impending deal that would push its IPO to $20 billion making it the largest IPO- ever. Marketplace’s Sabri Ben-Achour picks apart why Alibaba might be worth this much. Plus, there’s growing criticism over the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty. A recent ad has been called “patronizing” and Dove’s “most bulls**t ad yet.” Mitchell explains the controversy, and looks at whether Dove/Unilever expected – and will even benefit from – this outrage. Then, Oregon waives the White Flag and turns its exchange over to the Fed model, because fixing it would be just too expensive.  Maryland is also a mess, so it’s taking the Connecticut model.  And you thought Healthcare.gov was the problem. We look at the states which are running their own exchanges going into year two.