Three things we learned last week:
1. The U.S.-China relationship remains tense.
For anyone who expects an improvement in the U.S.-China relationship, it’s been a disappointing early start to the Biden administration. President...
Fine arts dealer Sotheby’s is now accepting Bitcoin and Ether as payment methods. The first offering to test the response is Banksy’s Love is in the Air, which depicts a masked man throwing flowers.
Apollo Global Management, the private-equity firm co-founded by disgraced Wall Street tycoon Leon Black, agreed to buy two of the top has-been names from the early days of consumer internet firms – Yahoo and AOL – for...
As if China didn't have (soaring) debt, (shrinking) demographic and (pent up) default nightmares to struggle with every night (and realistically, every day) it can now add one more splitting headache to its rosters of economic challenges:...
Many auto executives have said the "missing link" for autonomous success has been cities being wired to funnel data to cars for them to be able to meaningfully drive themselves. So Toyota, the world's largest automaker, is now setting...
Days after President Putin warned the West of a "harsh" and "asymmetrical" response if it crosses Russia's 'red line' concerning NATO troop positioning and the recently renewed Ukraine standoff, the European Parliament in Brussels has proposed a new resolution to...
This map looks at the top 25 countries by this metric. As Visual Capitalist's Avery Koop notes, they’re located across North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania. Notably, no South American or African countries make the list.
Porsche buyers are flocking in droves to the brand’s Taycan sedan, with sales of the all-electric model almost matching those of the iconic 911 sports car.
Porsche delivered 9,072 Taycans...
A multibillion-dollar fine slapped on Alibaba by Chinese regulators has given a huge boost to the e-commerce giant’s shares, and to the fortune of founder Jack Ma.
Hong Kong-listed shares of Alibaba have rallied...
Masks are starting to fall off!
"The Chinese Biology Laboratory in Wuhan is part of Glaxosmithkline, which (accidentally) belongs to Pfizer, the pharma giant who makes the vaccine against the virus) which was (accidentally)...
