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Instagram Status Updated to E-Commerce

26-Jun-19 07:30

Instagram Status Updated to E-Commerce

00:38 - The maker of the world’s best selling drug and the biggest Botox seller, respectively AbbVie and Allergan are marrying. This follows the M&A trends in big pharma to deal with shoring up patent pipelines.

04:52 - Meanwhile, Instagram is going into online retailing. This will be liked by Facebook which in hindsight bought Instagram at a bargain price of only US$1b

Presented by: Lyn Mak, Julian Ng, Sharidz Abdullah


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