... were not good for building companies. Some of the problems were blamed on Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp., a backer of WeWork that has become one of the most powerful tech investors globally. SoftBank d ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-04
... 2006, his good friend Warren Buffett said he will donate US$3.6 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway shares to the Foundation. The Foundation now holds assets worth US$100 billion, making it the world’ ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-03
Anti-government protesters went on a rampage in several districts on Wednesday night, setting fires and trashing shops and MTR facilities as they vented their anger over the shooting of a teenage stud ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-03
Southeast Asia’s internet economy is forecast to grow 39 percent this year to US$100 billion as millions of people in region go online to shop for the first time and ride-share firms grow in popularit ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-03
In case you blinked, the Argentine government built up a pile of debt out of almost nothing with surprising speed, and then proceeded to default on it almost as quickly. Compared to the country’s slow ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-03
London’s Court of Appeal gave the go-ahead for action against Google over claims it collected data from more than 4 million iPhone users, overturning a ruling in 2018 that in effect blocked any route ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-03
With just 29 days to go until the deadline, Britain is hurtling toward a No-Deal Brexit – the worst scenario for the business community. “A No-Deal Brexit is not the end of chaos for business, it is j ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-02
... ar. Let's go back to the highly regarded AI program. Its performance had been very disappointing since the service was launched. On Feb. 14, 2018, the computer program predicted that the S&P 500 i ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-02
... ibly with good intentions – has led to a downward spiral driven by long-accumulated resentment and frustrations at governance in our city. The police force – once touted as the finest in Asia – is now ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-02
Facebook Inc.'s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg told employees in July that the company would “go to the mat” to defeat Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren’s expected effort to break up the world’s ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-02
... needs to go to hospital. A policeman then kneels beside him and begins to tend to his wound. Protesters have been hit before with bean bags and rubber bullets and officers have fired live rounds in t ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-02
... ibly with good intentions – has led to a downward spira ...全文
... ers and algorithms instead of paperwork”. Using big data to work out premiums and AI to evaluate claims, it boasts that it set the world record for settling a claim from approval to pay out – three se ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-30
... being the government headquarters in Admiralty, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. After 2 p.m., police told the crowd that they were taking part in an unlawful assembly as organizers had not app ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-30
... vidual EU governments from being able to veto decisions on tax matters – a handful of EU states last year opposed a bloc-wide agreement on the digital tax. The new commissioners are due to take office ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-30
As the Home Affairs Bureau said on Tuesday, in view of the ongoing protests, the government will move the seating indoors for some 12,000 guests to watch the flag-raising ceremony, via a live broadcas ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-26
... Link, the government-owned firm behind the ubiquitous contactless stored-value card for public transit use in Singapore. YouTrip uses a contactless Mastercard prepaid card, which enables users to exch ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-26
Indonesian ride-hailing and payments firm Gojek on Thursday launched a video streaming service, named ‘Goplay’, that features original movies and TV shows, Reuters reports. “We see that there’s a gap ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-26
... here is a good chance of reaching an agreement with China as well. He said China was trying to be nice to him and added to reporters: “I was nice to them.” “We’re having some very good conversations,” ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-26
