The program hopes it can help both low-income renters and elderly homeowners short of income.

Chinese e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is reportedly struggling to hire and retain Silicon Valley talent, and that’s hampered the company’s goals to grow its cloud business in the United States. Alibaba is halting plans to expand its U.S. cloud business, The Information reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The company opened its U.S. headquarters in San Mateo in 2015 as a launching pad to take on the big players in the cloud market — Amazon.com’s Amazon…

The company is offering the space for up to five years and disclosed its own rent terms for its 14.5-year lease.

There are many factors that go into determining the cost of making your product. This is why in early conversations with your manufacturer it usually isn’t possible to give you an impromptu, off-the-top-of-the-head estimate to how much it will cost to make your product. Of course, it’s a valuable and necessary piece of information to know before going forth with manufacturing, but an accurate quote needs to be based off of something — mostly the details relating directly to your product and…

One of the biggest concerns amongst business owners is the protection of their products and their ideas. For those based here, U.S. patents and trademarks are a great start to adding some legal security to intellectual property, but these do little to protect products in other countries. The matter of IP protection is a common topic of discussion when manufacturing in China. This is why obtaining patents or trademarks in China is recommended if plans to manufacture there are in your present or future. The…