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Alibaba To Raise Up To $12.9 Billion In World’s Biggest Public Listing This Year

In its eleventh edition of Singles’ Day, the biggest shopping event in the world, Alibaba set a new sales record

22 ноября 2019 3 мин. 6714

America’s Top 50 Givers

Meet the philanthropists who gave away the most money in 2018

21 ноября 2019 2 мин. 6032

The High Stakes of the Coming Digital Currency War

SOUTH BEND – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was at least half right when he recently told the United States Congress that there is no US monopoly on regulation of next-generation payments technology. You may not like Facebook’s proposed Libra (pseudo) cryptocurrency, Zuckerberg implied, but a state-run Chinese digital currency with global ambitions is perhaps just a few months away, and you will probably like that even less

20 ноября 2019 5 мин. 7046

Starbucks’ China Rival Luckin Coffee Mints A Second Billionaire

Shares in Shanghai-headquartered Luckin Coffee, a China rival of Starbucks coffee, soared by a quarter to close an all-time high in Nasdaq trading on Friday amid optimism that Washington and Beijing were nearing an agreement that would reduce trade friction between the two sides and help economic growth in the world’s largest two largest economies

19 ноября 2019 2 мин. 6582

Welcome To The €1 billion Abandoned Ghost Airport

That Just Received Its First Flight After Nine Years

18 ноября 2019 3 мин. 5400

Facebook And Instagram Removed More Than 12 Million Pieces Of Child Porn

Facebook removed tens of millions of posts, photos and videos over the past six months for violating its terms of service that restrict the use of child pornography, drug and gun sales, and terrorism

15 ноября 2019 3 мин. 5987

The Growing Threat of Water Wars

NEW DELHI – The dangers of environmental pollution receive a lot of attention nowadays, particularly in the developing world, and with good reason. Air quality indices are dismal and worsening in many places, with India, in particular, facing an acute public-health emergency. But as serious as the pollution problem is, it must not be allowed to obscure another incipient environmental catastrophe, and potential source of future conflict: lack of access to clean water

14 ноября 2019 5 мин. 6697

The “Uberisation” of legal services – how technology has been reshaping the legal industry

Although the legal profession has been slow to embrace technology, more and more law firms are now starting to invest in AI, blockchain, and other solutions powered by technology. One of the reasons law firms do this is to gain a competitive advantage over their competition