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On Monday, big box retailer Office Depot announced a new partnership with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, allowing small and medium businesses to sell beyond the U.S., and giving Alibaba a way to encroach on Amazon’s business-to-business goals.

As part of the deal, Office Depot will direct business customers to a co-branded e-commerce site on Alibaba.com where they will be able to purchase items across categories, even outside of office supplies. Businesses will receive access to Alibaba’s global network of over 150,000 suppliers which can help find more products or find other manufacturers. Office Depot shares grew by 11 percent Monday morning following the announcement.

The partnership helps Office Depot stay relevant among business as Amazon tiptoes further into Office Depot’s domain with Amazon Business Prime which, last fall, added perks like same-day and one-day shipping of office supplies to U.S. businesses. Currently Office Depot offers next day delivery in the U.S.

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Walt Disney Co. cut millions of dollars of future potential earnings for CEO Bob Iger days before its annual meeting, where investors are set to vote on the entertainment giant’s executive pay program.

Iger’s target annual compensation will be $35 million after the deal with Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox is completed, Disney said Monday in a regulatory filing. That’s 28 percent less than the initial $48.5 million target. The company didn’t provide a reason for the change.

The cut precedes Disney’s March 7 annual meeting, where Iger’s contract was likely to face resistance from investors. A year ago, more than half of all shares voted in the firm’s annual say-on-pay proxy question were cast against the compensation program for senior managersa remarkable rebuke given that the vast majority of S&P 500 firms register average support of more than 90 percent.

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